Martin Schleske

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Martin Schleske (* 1965 in Stuttgart ) is a German violin maker with an international reputation and a spiritual writer.

Live and act

Schleske attended grammar school up to the end of the 10th grade, then graduated from 1982 to 1986 from the "State Vocational School for Violin Making and Plucked Instrument Makers Mittenwald " and completed his training with a journeyman's certificate . He made up his Abitur and began studying at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich , graduating in 1994 as a physics engineer (thesis: Investigation of the natural vibrations in the development of a violin ). At the same time, he worked from 1988 to 1994 in a sound technology consultancy in Planegg near Munich . He learned to restore in the workshop of the violin maker Peter Erben in Munich. In 1996 he passed his master's examination and founded a studio and acoustic laboratory for violin making in Stockdorf near Munich.

Today Schleske runs a workshop in Landsberg am Lech and works with four employees. The workshop delivers twelve to 15 handcrafted musical instruments every year. Performers like Ingolf Turban , Alban Beikircher and Jehi Bahk are among his customers and play his instruments. Schleske is one of the most important violin makers of our time, for example according to The Strad , the New York Times and Welt am Sonntag . For him, violin making has a lot to do with material knowledge, craftsmanship and science as well as with inspiration and beauty that shows itself in harmonious opposites. His understanding of form was strongly influenced by the Italian master violin makers Nicola Amati , Domenico Montagnana , Antonio Stradivari and the German master builder Balthasar Neumann .

In cooperation with Helmut A. Müller as well as scientists from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the EMPA in St. Gallen , acoustic research projects in the fields of modal analysis , psychoacoustics and materials research were developed. Some of Martin Schleske's research results have been included in the exhibition collection of the Deutsches Museum in Munich. He has been invited to speak several times at acoustic conferences and the annual meetings of European and US violin making associations.

In October 2010 his first spiritual book Der Klang: Vom unheard Sense of Life was published by Kösel-Verlag , and in 2016 his second book Heart Tones: Listening to the Sound of Life by adeo . Both books were created from notes written down in the workshop. Schleske is also a member of the Christian artist group “Das Rad”.

The sound

In his 352-page work Der Klang, which was first published in 2010, Schleske uses his extensive knowledge of contemporary violin making to present them as parables and examples of a growing personal Christian faith and a credible life. For him, violin making begins with careful observation of the trees, the complex procurement and the differentiated selection of the wood for the planned instrument. Sounds on the violin are not an unambiguous, sure thing, but they move between familiarity and surprise. Our life also remains exciting if we allow a healthy tension between passion and serenity, commitment and freedom, truthfulness and goodness, and other opposing ideals, values ​​and virtues. God does not want submissive faith and obedience from us, but humility so that what he has given can develop in us, grow and become. He wants mature people who are capable of dialogue, he takes us seriously as unique people, because person means by or for sound and tone . A musical instrument is actually not about the material, but about the effective, open and beautiful sound. Music could be a prayer cast in sound, our task is that of the divine singer.

Heart sounds

The 368-page work Herztöne , published in 2016, is a continuation and deepening of his first work, Der Klang . Schleske continues to write about his profession as a violin maker, in which he sees himself as both a musician and an instrument. He mentions dulled and sharpened tools. And he shares spiritual experiences that he has had. You can only learn essentials in life through love, suffering and making yourself receptive. Healthy self-limitation enables real learning and frees you from excessive ambition and false fearfulness. Only in this way can coherent and harmonious musical instruments develop with him. Ratio, empiricism, intuition and inspiration are different paths of knowledge that he also uses in violin making. Properly understood science is actually praise to God, but it is also important to allow ignorance in order to advance through trust and genuine inspiration. This second naivety and vulnerability lead to a nonetheless love and to more mature works. God actually wants to live in people and find a sounding board there, but he needs their consent and a listening heart. There the Bible is transformed into the Word of God and unfold its cleansing power in silence. Faith is a receptive look, praying fighting and living in unprotected openness to God. Love, trust, and responsibility led to a more mature faith in which God was the chief figure that outshone.

Fonts

  • The sound: of the unheard-of meaning in life. With photos by Donata Wenders .
  • 2016: Heart sounds: listening to the sound of life. With woodcuts by the author and photos by Donata Wenders and Tobias Kreissl. adeo, Asslar, 368 pages, ISBN 978-3-86334-076-6 (bound with dust jacket).

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  1. ↑ Michael Hollenbach: The music - a form of prayer. The violin maker Martin Schleske deutschlandradiokultur.de, August 27, 2011
  2. ↑ Joseph Curtin: Sounding out the establishment , in: The Strad, May 2001 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / josephcurtinstudios.com
  3. ↑ String Theory: New Approaches to Instrument Design , in: The New York Times, December 28, 2006
  4. ↑ Martina Kausch: As God's Created World on Sunday, November 21, 2010
  5. ↑ Martin Schleske: The Harmony of Opposites , AufAtmen magazine, Bundes-Verlag Witten 2/2019, pp. 41–44
  6. ↑ Martin Schleske: The sound: From the unheard of sense of life , with photos by Donata Wenders, Kösel, Munich 2010, 352 pages, ISBN 978-3-466-36883-9
  7. ^ Martin Schleske: Heart tones: Listening to the sound of life , adeo, Asslar, 368 pages, ISBN 978-3-86334-076-6
personal data
SURNAME Schleske, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violin maker and spiritual writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart