Nini Dombrowski

Nini Dombrowski in 1944 as a teacher at the Oberlyceum Hedwigsschule in Neisse.

Nini Dombrowski , actually Adelinde Dombrowski (born January 29, 1899 in Reichenberg , † March 27, 1960 in Fulda ), was a German music teacher and co-editor of the songbook Der Spielmann .

Life

As the daughter of the classical philologist Dr. Joseph Dombrowski was born in the Bohemian town of Reichenberg and grew up in a Catholic family, in which the maintenance of domestic music was a high priority. Her brother was the composer Hansmaria Dombrowski .

After graduating from high school , she studied school music at the University of Wroclaw . After completing her studies, she made her way to Neisse in Upper Silesia, where she worked as a music teacher at the municipal upper lyceum Hedwigschule until 1945 .

She was in close contact with numerous representatives of young music that was closely connected with the Wandervogel movement and who had dedicated themselves to the care and research of traditional German songs, such as Cesar Bresgen , Walter and Olga Hensel, and was one of the pioneers with them the singing movement and lively school music lessons.

Due to her professional activity in Neisse, the path to Heimgarten and Quickborn around the Catholic pastor Prof. Klemens Neumann was obvious. She conducted singing weeks and song courses in Neisser Heimgarten and elsewhere, always with the aim of sharing and awakening the joy of singing and the joy of folksong, which was rediscovered at the turn of the century .

Neumann, with whom she soon became a close musical friend, brought her and another musical colleague, Franz Liebich from Bad Landeck in Silesia, in the twenties as professional and competent co-authors for the new edition of his since 1914 in various forms and editions Songbook Der Spielmann - from the 1920s to the 1960s one of the most popular German songbooks. After Neumann's early death in 1928, Nini Dombrowski and Franz Liebich acted as editors.

It is thanks to their efforts that the book received ministerial approval for use in schools in the province of Silesia in 1930 and that a modern and practical songbook was given to children and teachers. For this purpose, Der Spielmann was supplemented by the piano book on the musician of her brother Hansmaria Dombrowski with easy-to-play, but lively piano movements as a supplement, especially for choral singing. Under her and Franz Liebich's leadership, the book exceeded a quarter of a million copies in 1959.

After 1945, Nini Dombrowski found a new start as a music teacher at the Marienschule in Fulda ; In 1952 she was appointed by the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Education as a music lecturer at the Pedagogical University in Gengenbach , where she worked until her untimely death.

Fonts

• Klemens Neumann, Franz Liebich and Nini Dombrowski (eds.): The minstrel. Songbook for youth and people. Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Mainz, numerous editions (e.g. 151–165 thousand 1932; 207–260 thousand 1947; 22nd edition 1978, 22nd edition; ISBN 978-3-7867-0163- 7 )

literature

• Joseph Thamm, Nini Dombrowski † , in: Neisser Heimatblatt, 13th year, no. 80, p. 11