Mendelssohn Society
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| legal form | Registered association |
| founding | 1967 |
| founder | Members of the Mendelssohn family and Mendelssohn researchers |
| Seat | Berlin |
| main emphasis | Care and dissemination of the intellectual and artistic heritage of the Mendelssohn family |
| Action space | Germany |
| Members | 460 |
| Website | www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de |
The Mendelssohn Society eV is a Berlin- based non-profit association founded in 1967 by Mendelssohn researchers and descendants, which aims to maintain and spread the intellectual and artistic legacy of the Mendelssohn family in all its branches. It has around 460 members, including around 100 descendants of Moses Mendelssohn (July 2014).
task
The association's task is to look after the memory, work and activity of the mentally, artistically and historically outstanding members of the Mendelssohn family.
This includes:
- Promotion of intellectual and artistic heritage by supporting scientific research
- Publications of all kinds
- Lectures, readings, guided tours, music performances and similar events
- Operation of a permanent exhibition
- Collecting documents, letters, manuscripts, works of art, memorabilia, books and other things with the purpose of making them available to the public
- Operation and use of the Mendelssohn Remise in Jägerstrasse 51 in Berlin-Mitte
history
The Mendelssohn Society was registered on October 3, 1967 by members of the Mendelssohn family in the register of associations of the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court . The entry was made on October 24, 1967. The association has a crane with stone as its logo , which was already used as a seal motif by the Mendelssohn bankers . According to Pliny the Elder, this motif has been a symbol of vigilant care since ancient times .
The association's first tasks were to re-establish the Moses Mendelssohn grant, which originally existed from 1929 to 1933, to promote the general cataloging of letters and documents from the Mendelssohn family as well as Wilhelm Hensel's paintings and drawings, and preparatory steps for the establishment of a “bank -Archivs Mendelssohn ”with special consideration of the 19th century.
A general cataloging of the Mendelssohn letters and documents has not yet been carried out. Shortly after it was founded, the Mendelssohn Society began acquiring autographs and other Mendelssohn documents, which they made available as deposits to the Mendelssohn archive of the Berlin State Library .
In the run-up to the anniversary celebrations for the 250th birthday of Moses Mendelssohn in 1979, the plan to re-establish the Moses Mendelssohn scholarship was taken up. In cooperation with the then Senator for Cultural Affairs of West Berlin , Dieter Sauberzweig , the decision was made not to renew the scholarship and instead award the Moses Mendelssohn Prize every two years. The seven-member jury includes a representative from the Mendelssohn Society.
In 2002, some members of the Mendelssohn Society founded the Jägerstraße History Mile Working Group to review the history of the Mendelssohns in Jägerstraße in Berlin-Mitte . In 2005 this working group was merged into the registered association Geschichtsforum Jägerstraße , which in turn merged with the Mendelssohn Society in 2009.
In 2009 the internationally renowned musician Daniel Barenboim took over the patronage of the Mendelssohn Society.
Since 2010, the Berlin Choir Association has awarded Sibling Mendelssohn Medals annually, which are presented in cooperation with the Mendelssohn Society in the Mendelssohn Remise in Berlin-Mitte. The Mendelssohn Society and the Mendelssohn Chamber Choir Berlin have been working together since September 2013, which will include premieres of compositions by the Mendelssohn family in the Mendelssohn Remise.
On November 3, 2013, the association opened a permanent exhibition on the history of the Mendelssohn family in a former chapel at the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof in Berlin-Kreuzberg . Over 30 members of the family were buried in the cemeteries in front of Hallesches Tor .
Association chairperson
- 1967 to 1989: Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel
- 1989 to 1993: Ernst Thamm († June 9, 1993)
- 1993 to 1998: Ingeborg Stolzenberg
- 1998 to 2006: Elke von Nieding
- 2006 to 2008: Gerhild Komander
- since 2008: André Schmitz
The author Thomas Lackmann , who has also written books about the Mendelssohn family, is one of the deputy chairmen of the Mendelssohn Society.
Mendelssohn studies
The first volume of the Mendelssohn studies was presented in connection with the commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the death of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1972. This journal, which is published "for the Mendelssohn Society" every two to three years and is financed by the latter, publishes essays on various aspects of the Mendelssohn family history under the subtitle "Contributions to modern German cultural history", with the focus on sibling Composer couple Fanny and Felix as well as on the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn lies.
The editors of the Mendelssohn studies were or are:
- Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (1972 to 1990)
- Rudolf Elvers (1979 to 2003)
- Hans-Günter Klein (1993 to 2011)
- Christoph Schulte (since 2005)
- Roland Dieter Schmidt-Hensel (since 2013)
literature
- 25 years of the Mendelssohn Society Berlin eV Exhibition in the exhibition room of the Mendelssohn archive of the Berlin State Library. October 28, 1992 - January 9, 1993. Catalog; Berlin: Mendelssohn Society 1992
- Mendelssohn Society eV Berlin; Berlin: Mendelssohn Society 1983
- Stolzenberg, Ingeborg: The deposit of the Mendelssohn Society eV in the Mendelssohn archive of the Berlin State Library; in: Klein, Hans-Günter: The Mendelssohn Archive of the Berlin State Library, Berlin: SBB PK 2003, pp. 93–119
Individual evidence
- ↑ See § 2 of the statutes ( 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. (PDF; 25 kB) of the association from November 19, 2009, accessed online on May 17, 2013
- ↑ a b history , www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de, accessed online on May 17, 2013
- ↑ The crane with the stone , www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de, accessed online on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Stolzenberg 2003 offers an overview of all documents acquired up to 2003.
- ^ Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft - Geschichte , jaegerstrasse.de, accessed on February 9, 2014
- ↑ The Conductor and the Mendelssohns , tagesspiegel.de, December 18, 2009, accessed on July 1, 2013
- ↑ Season opening concert of the Mendelssohn ChamberChor Berlin - At the beginning of the collaboration with the Mendelssohn Remise , September 8, 2013, 7 p.m., accessed online on September 16, 2013
- ↑ Newsletter of the Mendelssohn Society ( 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. (PDF; 116 kB), August 28, 2013, Berlin, accessed online on September 16, 2013
- ↑ Convertible concert and exhibition opening ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2016 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. (PDF; 1.4 MB), November 3, 2013, accessed online on November 4, 2013
- ↑ Permanent exhibition on the history of the Mendelssohn family at the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof in front of Hallesches Tor , www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de, accessed online on May 17, 2013
- ↑ Imprint , Mendelssohn Society, accessed on June 30, 2013
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 51.8 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 42 ″ E