Musisches Gymnasium (Leipzig)
| Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1941 |
| closure | 1945 |
| address |
Sebastian-Bach-Strasse 53 |
| place | Leipzig |
| country | Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 '58 " N , 12 ° 21' 14" E |
The Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig was an educational institution with a musical focus that existed from 1941 to 1945 and led to the university entrance qualification.
location
The Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig was housed in a villa at Sebastian-Bach-Straße 53 . The building was built in 1880/1881 by the architect Arwed Roßbach for the publisher Leopold Gebhardt, the owner of J. M. Gebhardt's Verlag. The Jewish Gebhardt family had lost the property as part of the Aryanization by the National Socialists. After the Second World War , the building was used for medical purposes and is now the Stadtpalais senior citizens' residential park with a modern extension.
Because of the danger of bombing in Leipzig, the Musisches Gymnasium was relocated to Nossen in 1944 until it was closed .
history
The Musisches Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main was founded in 1939 as the first school of its kind in Germany. The director was the later Thomaskantor Kurt Thomas . The Reich Ministry of Education in Berlin had technical supervision .
In September 1941, the second school of this kind followed in Leipzig. As in Frankfurt, the intention was to exert political influence on the arts education. The opening ceremony took place on September 28, 1941 in the presence of Reich Minister of Education Bernhard Rust . In the report on this in the Leipziger Jahrbuch 1942, the Musisches Gymnasium was lined up with the Adolf Hitler Schools and the National Political Educational Institutions (Napola) and assigned the task of “training a new leadership class in the field of art”. With the "soldier-musical" education as a school goal, the grammar school was a pure boys' school with an attached boarding school. For the year 1942 110 students in seven classes are given.
The choice of Leipzig as the second school location was based on the intention of removing the St. Thomas' Choir from church influence as far as possible and placing it under government control, which ultimately did not succeed. A first step in this direction was the appointment of Thomas Cantor Günther Ramin as the school's musical director. However, the headmaster was a teacher judge, who settled the administrative questions with the school office bypassing Ramin.
In February 1943 Günther Ramin resigned from the artistic direction of the Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig because of the distribution of competencies. The succession of the artistic director was not clarified until the school was closed. Numerous composers and music educators were asked, but they all declined, including Hugo Distler , Walter Kolneder , Fritz Reuter , Cesar Bresgen , Karl Höller and Hans Chemin-Petit . Finally, in August 1944, Johann Nepomuk David took over the post alongside his directorate at the State University of Music in Leipzig. Both facilities were already in alternative quarters.
After the end of the war, the music school was not continued.
Known students
- Hans Bünte, musician and author
- Johannes Burkhardt, painter and graphic artist
- Günter Bust , music teacher and composer
- Saschko Gawriloff , violinist and violin teacher
- Eberhard Grünenthal, flautist and university professor
- Harald Hellmich, painter and graphic artist
- Günter Kochan , composer
- Egmar Ponndorf , stone sculptor
- Arnd Schultheiß , painter and graphic artist
- Siegfried Kurz , conductor and composer
- Siegfried Stöckigt , pianist
literature
- Werner Heldmann: Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main 1939–1945 . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 3-63151987-7 , pp. 583-612 ( Musisches Gymnasium Leipzig )
- Leipziger Jahrbuch 1942, Publisher: Leipzig: Otto Beyer, (1941), p. 169/170
Individual evidence
- ^ Heldmann, p. 608
- ↑ a b Leipziger Jahrbuch 1942 , p. 169
- ↑ Heldmann, p. 611
- ^ Miederer: Memorandum on the establishment of a music grammar school in Leipzig with special consideration of the incorporation of the St. Thomas' Choir , August 1, 1940, Leipzig City Archives , files of the school office, volume number 2/810
- ↑ Heldmann, pp. 599/600
- ^ Authors in Saarland
- ↑ Pictures of Life 1941–2009 ( Memento from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d Dietrich Brennecke: Günter Kochan. In: Dietrich Brennecke, Hannelore Gerlach, Mathias Hansen (eds.): Musicians in our time. Members of the music section of the GDR Academy of the Arts. Leipzig 1979, p. 154
- ↑ hmt Rostock
- ↑ Zweiweltkind
- ↑ Sachsen.digital ( Memento from March 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
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