Panoptikum Hamburg
The Panoptikum in Hamburg is Germany's oldest and largest wax museum .
history
The Panoptikum Hamburg was founded in 1879 by the wood sculptor Friedrich Hermann Faerber on Spielbudenplatz on the Reeperbahn and has been family-owned since then. The cabinet is currently headed by the doctor Hayo Faerber and his daughter Susanne Faerber. Hayo Faerber is the founder's great-grandson and took over the business from his father, Heinz Hermann Faerber, who was a senior construction officer at the Hamburg building authorities. Initially, his wife Beate managed the business, after whose death Hayo Faerber took over the management himself. By the Second World War , the Panoptikum in the entertainment district of St. Pauli grew into a museum with 300 figures, before it was destroyed by fire bombs in 1943. With 28 rescued figures, the Panoptikum opened in 1948 in some restored rooms. These include the figures of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels created in 1941 , the installation of which had previously been forbidden by the National Socialists and which are shown today in a scene with the Scholl siblings . In 1959/1961 the current building was built according to the designs of Heinz Hermann Faerber at the old location next to the operetta house. At the beginning of 2007, a careful redesign took place in which the character of the facade in the style of the 1950s was retained.
Collection and exhibition
In the founding years, kings and emperors, criminals and murderers, but also living people such as B. People of short stature and giants exhibited. Today, the Panoptikum has around 120 figures of historical personalities in valuable costumes , international celebrities and Hamburg stars on four floors . You can, for example, the young football legend Uwe Seeler , the actress Inge Meysel in her prime or newcomers like Angela Merkel , Robbie Williams , Angelina Jolie , Vitali Klitschko , Udo Lindenberg , Otto Waalkes , Helene Fischer , Karl Lagerfeld , Barack Obama , Donald Trump or Pope Benedict XVI. consider. There is also a horror scene and a so-called medical-historical cabinet . Compared to the facilities currently operated by leisure companies with great technical effort, the Hamburg Panoptikum refers more to the origins of the wax figure cabinets in terms of exhibition space and staging. The museum offers various rallies for children and young people and organizes children's birthdays, and there is also an audio guide.
The artistic work method of the commissioned sculptors and the technical possibilities of the heads and limbs modeled in individual cases before the Second World War influence the quality of the figures. It takes several months to make a figure. Until 1953, this work was carried out by the founder and his son Herrmann. Today Saskia Ruth and Gottfried Krüger are the performing artists.
Web links
- Official website of the Panoptikum Hamburg
- Panoptikum Hamburg . In: Hamburg.de
- Panoptikum history at reeperbahn.de , accessed on August 17, 2019
- Panoptikum Hamburg - Germany's oldest wax museum . In: AhoiHamburg.net
- Damián Morán Dauchez: The Panoptikum in Hamburg - Germany's oldest wax museum . In: MusErMeKu.de, May 11, 2016
- 140 years of Panoptikum , video at DAS! / NDR from March 15, 2019
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 58 " N , 9 ° 58 ′ 3" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ The young woman in the middle of the picture is real. In: Abendblatt.de/ Bezahlartikel. June 21, 2014, accessed April 27, 2019 .
- ^ Panoptikum Hamburg: Wealth was always there. In: ZEIT Online. September 12, 2018, accessed April 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Panoptikum: Hitler in Hamburg unmolested for decades. In: Abendblatt.de/ Bezahlartikel. July 7, 2008, accessed April 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Katharina Klofat: Panoptikum gets a new face. In: Abendblatt.de/ Bezahlartikel. December 19, 2006, accessed April 27, 2019 .
Remarks
- ↑ On the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf is the grave site of the Faerber family with pillow stone for Friedrich Hermann Faerber in grid square O 7 on Cordesallee below the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery .