Martin Doernberg

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Martin Doernberg (born March 4, 1920 in Eschwege ; † March 8, 2013 in Bad Nenndorf ) was a German Protestant pastor , violinist and composer .

Life

Doernberg came from a liberal Jewish family. His parents owned a drugstore in Eschwege. After attending the Friedrich Wilhelm School there (1930–1934), he became a pupil in 1936 at the large Breesen Jewish emigrant school in Silesia . From there he was sent to Breslau for a year to learn the trade as a hairdresser. During this year he attended Christian services for musical reasons, which he described in retrospect as the initial spark for his later conversion to the Protestant faith. After the November pogroms in 1938 he was locked up in the Buchenwald concentration camp for three weeks .

Doernberg survived the war and persecution in England as a farm worker (from 1939), where he worked as a music teacher from 1946. In 1960 he returned to Germany, where he was initially a music teacher at the Hermann-Lietz-Schule at Schloss Bieberstein , until he fulfilled his wish from his time in Breslau and from 1970 to 1985 as pastor of the double community of Bantorf and Hohenbostel am Deister (not far from Hanover ) worked. Doernberg lived with his wife and son Ferdy Doernberg in nearby Bad Nenndorf .

Musical work

Doernberg, who took composition lessons with Alan Rawsthorne and Stefan Wolpe during his exile and who dealt intensively with the work of Paul Hindemith , composed tonal , free-tonal and also dodecaphonic . In addition to Hindemith, he was primarily committed to Anton Webern and Gustav Mahler . In addition to orchestral works and chamber music, his work also includes many secular and sacred vocal works.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. his life review on the occasion of the Eschweg composer portrait from 2005 (Weblink: http://www.kirchenkreis-eschwege.de/scripts/news/552/17618?layoutback=9&layout=7  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info : The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirchenkreis-eschwege.de  
  2. ↑ See the article about Doernberg on www.klassika.info (Weblink: http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Doernberg_Martin/index.html )
personal data
SURNAME Doernberg, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, violinist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2013
Place of death Bad Nenndorf