Matthias Stuhlmann

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Matthias Stuhlmann, 1972

Matthias Stuhlmann (born June 14, 1953 in Hanover ) is a German author and autobiographer . The former participant of the 1968 movement and the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (Apo) converted to Christianity and was involved in Protestant cultural work.

Life

Matthias Stuhlmann was born in 1953 as the son of Christa, née Andersson, and the commercial and commercial designer Hans Stuhlmann (born November 5, 1919, † January 31, 1991). As one of the couple's three children, a “happy childhood” in the Hanover district of Ledeburg . The father, graphic artist and supporter of the New Objectivity , created numerous color photo and film documentaries of the Lower Saxony state capital in the 1950s with great passion.

After attending elementary school, Matthias Stuhlmann moved to the Bismarck School in the southern part of Hanover. At the end of 1967 the student became aware of the grievances of society, such as the " Nazis unmolested in high positions", a renewed strengthening of the right, the Vietnam War or the oppression of the poor in many parts of the world. As an enthusiastic supporter of the so-called “student SDS ”, he took part in numerous demonstrations. In June 1969, for example, he supported the red dot campaign directed against the drastic price increases on the Hanoverian trams , during which the Üstra could hardly be operated regularly for two weeks.

After an initial euphoric mood of optimism, SDS and APO broke up almost at the same time as the Beatles , who shaped the zeitgeist at the time. In political splinter groups, the so-called K-group , “ anarchos ” ensured a tougher pace of the political demonstrations. Matthias Stuhlmann was now involved in the Red Cells Initiative , in which he wanted to found an “educational apprentice center work” in 1970 with Jusos and other K groups. However, the project failed due to the chronic absence of the desired trainees. Such disappointments led Stuhlmann and his colleagues to search for meaning more inwardly, in search of themselves. So they initially became part of a political hippie movement with new approaches .

The Audimax of the University of Hanover was used by Stuhlmann and the band Ton Steine ​​Scherben in 1971 as the starting point for a squatting
The building of the former Heinrich August Schulte iron shop at Arndtstrasse 20 was the first step for the squatters in 1971 to found the later UJZ Glocksee

From 1970, Stuhlmann attended the so-called “Brückner Circle” around Professor Peter Brückner , who taught at the University of Hanover and who taught social psychology there. Chair man took part in heated discussions and the development of political concepts, especially during the evening events. Together with the political rock group One Ton , especially with their frontman Rio Reiser , he prepared a squat before: At a prearranged date, the band was in the main auditorium of the University of mock a concert, but cried after only three pieces to fill the building Arndtstraße 20 on . There, the musicians of the Krautrock band Jane, who were friends with Stuhlmann, performed jam sessions to support the squatters . Only after three days did the Hanoverian police end the action with arrests of 108 people, including Matthias Stuhlmann. For many, however, the squatting was only an intermediate step on the way to founding an independent youth center, from which the UJZ Glocksee was developed.

From time to time, Stuhlmann earned some money as a roadie from Jane: 20 DM at big " gigs ", otherwise just a currywurst . The band practiced in the then vacant Bothfeld bread factory , the musicians lived there as well as Stuhlmann in a shared apartment . The photo for Jane's record cover for the long-playing record Here we are was taken in Stuhlmann's room . In the bread factory, Stuhlmann got to know the Scorpions and, with his “Mucker-WG”, became the host for Tony Sheridan . On Christmas Eve 1972, however, the “political freak” and his stoner friends were put into a “Christmas shock”: their house dealer from Veilchenstrasse no longer sold hashish and instead of a water pipe only had a Bible on his table. Instead of joints, a conversation “about God and the world” actually started after Stuhlmann, out of curiosity, visited the recently opened Protestant tea room “Jesus-Treff” in Goethestrasse with his former drug dealer. There they celebrated Christmas together with many homeless people - without drugs.

The formerly Royal Hanoverian Wagenremisen in Goethestrasse, built in 1864, also served as a free church tea room " Jesus- Treff" in the 1970s

After Stuhlmann escaped a roof tile on his bed during a strong storm in November 1972 without physical damage, he began to believe in Jesus Christ . As a result, he developed an awareness as a Christian and began to work full-time in the newly founded free church tea room Jesus-Treff. There he gave people from marginalized groups help with problem solving; quite a few drug addicts then underwent addiction treatment.

As a Christian, Stuhlmann also began organizing football matches in the “1. FC Rock`n Roll “, games of the Scorpions, Eloy and Jane against the Jesus rock band Semaja and the Mehler Field Band, the former Love Song . As a Christian Stuhlmann, Stuhlmann spoke to the musicians from Weather Report , Barclay James Harvest , Epitaph , the Scorpions, After the Fire , musicians like Eric Burdon , Cliff Richard , Allen Ginsberg , Billy Cobham , Wayne Shorter , Joe Zawinul , Jaco Pastorius , Alex Acuña , Wenzel , musicians like John Kirkbride from Moody Blues , Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac and Larry Norman from the rock band People .

Parallel to his “Jesus-Treff” work, Matthias Stuhlmann and friends ran the small Christian advice center and bookstore called Come In for around 30 years , which was set up in what was then the “ Passerelle ” under Hanover's main train station . In 1986, Stuhlmann published his first paperback under the title Thesenanschlag '86. Confession from the Jesus Movement , in 1987 followed by his autobiography From the APO to Grandpa ... .

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  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Arno Krumm: folkfish / artist July / August / September 14 / Matthias Stuhlmann on the folkfish.de page [ undated ], last accessed on September 26, 2017
  2. ↑ a b Ingrid Lundberg-Piper (Red.), Matthias Stuhlmann, Bert Strebe (text), Hans Stuhlmann (Ill.): Vitae / Hans Stuhlmann in this: My Hanover. A city in transition. The colorful fifties , 1st edition, Hanover: Madsack Medienagentur, 2010, ISBN 978-3-940308-56-6 , p. 153
  3. ↑ oV : Stuhlmann , Matthias ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of Lower Saxony people (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the processing of January 7, 2007, last accessed on September 26, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gwlb.de
  4. ↑ a b Akif, Arne Langgut, Bum Bum, Django, Hein, Jimmi, Kai Steele, Konrad Kittner , Leho Morgenstern, Nils, Olaf, Ossi, Willi Penner: Chronicle, 1st part , in Reiner Hentschel (ed.): UJZ Glocksee. 1972 - 2012. Documentation forty years , ed. on behalf of the Independent Youth Center Glocksee, Hanover: UJZ Glocksee 2012, p. 113f.
  5. ^ Matthias Stuhlmann: Smokeless Christmas , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of December 24, 2015, updated on December 25, 2015, last accessed on September 26, 2017
  6. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Stuhlmann, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and autobiographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover