Martin Flämig

Martin Flämig's grave at the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery

Martin Flämig (born August 19, 1913 in Aue ; † January 13, 1998 in Dresden ) was a German church musician, Protestant regional church music director and Kreuzkantor in Dresden.

Life

After completing his state examination as a church musician, Flämig succeeded Franciscus Nagler as cantor of the Matthäuskirche in Leisnig. From there he first came to Döbeln before he succeeded his former teacher Alfred Stier as cantor at the Dresden Reconciliation Church in 1948 . A year later he founded the regional church music school. In addition, since 1945 he has been in charge of choral conducting as a university professor and department head at the Academy for Music and Theater in Dresden. In 1953 he was appointed professor at the Dresden University of Music . From 1959 he took on duties as a teacher at the conservatory in Bern and choirmaster of the Engadin choir in the “Laudinella” in St. Moritz.

In order to enable him to continue his endangered work in Switzerland and thus to keep him as a conductor, members of the Berner Kantorei , the Basler Münsterkantorei and the then Eastern Switzerland Choir founded the Evangelical Singing Congregation in 1962 and employed Martin Flämig as their first musical director.

He also worked as an organist in Bern, Thun and Effretikon and as a conductor of the Thuner Singkreis, the Seeland Teachers' Choir and the Zurich Radio Choir. In 1971 he was appointed as successor to Rudolf Mauersberger as the Dresden Kreuzkantor. He held this office until 1991; In 1988 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Dresden. Flämig was a member of the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood and the Christian Democratic Union of the GDR .

Since 1991 Flämig lived in Tschingel near Gunten on Lake Thun in retirement. He died in 1998 and was buried in the Weißer Hirsch forest cemetery in Dresden.

In 2000, Flämig was voted one of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”.

literature

• Matthias Herrmann (ed.): Dresden Kreuzchor and contemporary choral music between Richter and Kreile . Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3906-9 (= writings of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, vol. 2). (Therein about Flämig: pp. 103–131, 217–293, 318–322.)
• Matthias Herrmann (Ed.): Martin Flämig. From the work of a Kreuzkantor - letters, interviews, speeches, texts. Baden-Baden 2018, ISBN 978-3-8288-4214-4 (= Writings of the Dresdner Kreuzchor, Vol. 3).
• Bernd Klempnow: The underrated Kreuzkantor . In: Saxon newspaper . May 2, 2019 ( paid online [accessed May 3, 2019]).

Web links

• Works by and about Martin Flämig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Martin Flämig in the Saxon Bibliography
• Dieter Härtwig : Flämig, Martin . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ File: KAS-BV Cottbus, District Delegate Conference in Cottbus 1975-Bild-22319-1.jpg - Wikimedia Commons. In: commons.wikimedia.org. May 29, 1975, accessed May 12, 2017 . 
2. ↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .