Martin Kreisig
Martin Kreisig (born September 8, 1856 in Cunnersdorf ; † August 7, 1940 in Zwickau ) was a German educator, founder of the Robert Schumann Museum in Zwickau and founder of the Robert Schumann Society. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau.
Life
Kreisig's father, the schoolmaster Christian Gottlob Kreisig, was in close contact with the Serre couple from Maxen , the owners of the Maxen castle and manor. The art-loving couple Serre often housed Robert and Clara Schumann . Schumann is said to have given Kreisig piano lessons and to have made a book of music for him by hand.
Martin Kreisig learned to play the piano from his father with Schumann's music book. Kreisig's father died at the age of 7 and he moved with his mother to Reinhardtsgrimma .
Friederike Serre , meanwhile a widow, saw her foster son in Kreisig. In 1865 it enabled Kreisig to be accepted into the Pestalozzi Foundation in Dresden. He later attended the Royal Seminary in Friedrichstadt and became a teacher like his father.
He worked as an assistant teacher in Großcotta near Pirna and Naundorf near Stadt Wehlen. In 1879 he became an assistant in the royal gymnastics teacher training institute in Dresden. One of his students was the last Saxon King Friedrich August III. , then 15 years old. On June 1, 1882, he married Anna Mahn in Struppen , and in the same year he began to teach gymnastics and elementary subjects at the grammar school in Chemnitz .
At the age of 30 he changed his educational role. He worked in the reformatory in Bräunsdorf near Freiberg, looked after mentally ill children in Hubertusberg and worked in the lunatic asylum Untergöltzsch in the Vogtland. In 1904 he came to Zwickau as a cantor and teacher.
Kreisig and Robert Schumann
In 1910, the 100th birthday of Robert Schumann was the occasion for major festivities in his hometown of Zwickau . One remembered the new teacher in the penal institution, who was with Schumann's circle of acquaintances, the Serre family. With Kreisig's help, all of the prints and letters could be put together in an exhibition.
In 1914 the Robert Schumann Museum was inaugurated after the collection had been expanded considerably. Kreisig's “gymnastics student” Friedrich August III appeared at the inauguration.
In 1914 Kreisig's new edition of Robert Schumann's writings appeared in two volumes (Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel). On the one hand, they are the 5th edition of his collected writings on music and musicians (first edition 1854), but by including all of Schumann's other accessible writings, they represent a complete edition of Schumann's writings, which also offers the different variants between the first publication of the magazine and Schumann's last-hand book edition . Kreising's research is reflected in his comments on the texts and is still relevant to this day (2011).
In 1920 Kreisig founded the Robert Schumann Society, in which he acted as managing director. On July 1, 1932, on the day of his golden wedding anniversary, he became an honorary citizen of the city of Zwickau.
swell
- History and stories 1404–2004 , Heimatverein Cunnersdorf eV 2004
- Archive of the Robert Schumann House in Zwickau
- Wolfram Günther, love for people, home and art determined his life , in: Pulsschlag , Heft 8/1990, ed. from the Kulturbund Zwickau
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Kreisig in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert Schumann Museum
- Robert Schumann Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Circular, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator and head of the Robert Schumann Society |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cunnersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 1940 |
| Place of death | Zwickau |