RWLE Möller

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RWLE Möller (actually Reinhard Walter Ludwig Eduard Möller , also Reinhard Möller and variants; born October 31, 1952 in Celle ; † January 24, 2001 ibid) was a German artist and non-fiction book - author , painter and journalist , private scholar , local historian and activist , Gay movement and left wing “bird of paradise” in the PDS . RWLE Möller, founder of the foundation of the same name, was considered “an anti-institution”, “intellectual asylum seekers' home for entire generations of students” and “public conscience of the city of Celle”.

Life

Möller grew up in his parents' house at Zöllnerstrasse 7 in Celle, a small half-timbered house traditionally used by his family - "his mother was born Breithaupt" - with a shop window on the street front and the former A. Breithaupt brush factory in the back of the tube-like building. As a child in the 1950s Möller experienced “the end of a world that is not cure, but incomparable, and has meanwhile become unimaginably leisurely”, probably one of the reasons for his later ongoing resistance to “an overpowering, all-soaking commercialization”. In 1963 he started school at the Hermann-Billung-Gymnasium . Möller later documented the HBG building, which was then just a stone's throw from his parents' house on the north wall, in his “demolition calendar”. He later founded the school newspaper bi with Bernd Polster , the second edition of which was “the best school newspaper in Lower Saxony” and the third edition of which was banned. He also co-founded the municipal cinema before taking his Abitur in 1972 in the new building of the Hermann-Billung-Gymnasium.

In the 1960s Möller began "his subversive career", wore long hair, cultivated "questioning" and discovered his homosexuality . At the age of 17, his first important trip, which he undertook with Bernd Polster, took him to Holland, where they visited all the important art museums and Möller was particularly inspired by the painters Vincent van Gogh and Carel Willink . After this trip he started painting himself. During this formative period he began to be interested in artists such as Frank Zappa , Pier Paolo Pasolini , Edward Hopper and Arno Schmidt .

At the beginning of the 1970s, RWLE Möller moved to Berlin , where he enjoyed life in the bohemian and gay scene for a few years , but returned to his hometown of Celle as one of the few intellectuals for whom he harbored “an abysmal love”. He earned his living in various jobs as a packer, photographer, hotel porter or official messenger, he expanded as a free and aesthetic spirit " equally familiar with high and subculture , but also his horizons". Not least because of his many years of activity in the Celle city archive.

His first exhibitions took place in the Bonn region in the late 1970s, where he realized various art projects with Bernd Polster, including "Art Kiosk" and "I would like to be a chicken" (photographer Harald Reiterer was also involved in the latter) . In 1983 he and Bernd Polster from the BBK Celle were selected for a joint exhibition at the Künstlerhaus Hannover. Now he dropped his nickname Reinhard and called himself RWLE . A year earlier, the “autodidact without professional qualification”, who had consciously decided in favor of oil painting and against an academic degree and who had presented his works to around 30 individual and 80 group exhibitions at home and abroad, had joined the Association of Visual Artists (BBK) , became “soul and accountant” and in 1989 coordinator of the BBK district group in Celle.

In the 1980s Möller became a chronicler. He wrote numerous articles in specialist journals , in left-wing papers such as zündel , Publiz or revista . In the Celleschen Zeitung his column about the “Celler street names” had a permanent place for a long time. His first book The Solid House , published in 1984 with Bernd Polster . The history of a penal factory , the first monograph on the prison in Celle and an exemplary history of the penal system (from the prison and prison to the high-security wing ), for which the authors also researched in the prison and Möller's mother took over the deciphering of historical texts. With his Celle-Lexikon , published in 1987 , at the time a “de facto unique project” in the Federal Republic and “the first overall view of the city's history since Clemens Cassel , Möller ended a long-lasting amnesia of [… Celle's] local research” and broke taboos: In particular, “[... ] the mention of Celle Nazis and communists by name was a thorn in the side of the authorities. ”The city did not support the co-founder of a gay group in Celle with its lexicon“ not with a mark ”, just as little as Celle did. The city book , whose research became a major task in the last years of his life, but which he could no longer complete himself. It was published by Bernd Polster two years after his death in a textual and visual completely revised and considerably expanded version and has since been considered a standard work on the history of Celle. It was made possible by the financial support of the Jan Philipp Reemtsma Foundation and the RWLE Möller Foundation as well as content-related contributions from experts, in particular Mijndert Bertram, the former director of the Bomann Museum.

In 1985, Möller, together with Reinhard Rohde, first published the Antifascist City Map of Celle , then designed it with the Association for the Promotion of Political Literature e. V. the first guided city tours on the subject of Celle under National Socialism .

The activities of RWLE Möller did not meet with undivided enthusiasm among the city's dignitaries at the time : "[...] At the latest with his oil painting of the then Mayor Hörstmann he was politically down." “The city of Celle has never bought one of his paintings” (as of early 2001). And after his involvement in the PDS from around the mid-1990s "[...] the lines of the Cellesche Zeitung closed to him ." Nevertheless, with a significant contribution from RWLE Möller, "[...] the building of the wall around the Celle refugee home was late , but at least an international scandal ”.

RWLE Möller, co-founder of the Bunter Haus , initiated in 1993 on the site of the former CD barracks , was less closed: “The chronic workaholic [...] served as a mentor for countless visitors, for whom his house had become an island in the sea of ​​no alternative. A vanishing point, not least for young people, for whom he provided a free counter-image to the » leading culture « of the conformist on Zöllnerstrasse . ”Möller, who loved provocation, the sociable, well-read and hopelessly Italian humanist and lateral thinker, was considered to be a personality with integrity and argument : RWLE, an "[...] extremely pleasant interlocutor, blessed with manners and joke", inflamed others for actions that sometimes seemed hopeless and was "[...] a rare role model" in front of all the young people.

Before his death, Möller founded the RWLE Möller Foundation , which was based in Möler's parents and work house. He himself set up the voluntary foundation board, which includes Peter Raabe, Gerhard Schäfers and Oskar Ansull .

RWLE Möller died in 2001 after a serious illness and was buried in the Celle city cemetery. According to his request, a "celebration" was held on the same evening in the Bunter Haus, among others with old friends.

Painting style

With his extensive oeuvre with partly stylizing oil paintings , often with a complex symbolic language, RWLE Möller created "[...] profound and exciting picture compositions, [...] a realm of light and shadow in which the subconscious of this society shines." Bernd Polster described painting Möllers as a “[…] mixture of critical realism and sometimes surreal collage technique ” In an interview, Möller himself described his work less as photo-realistic , but more as “ironic realism”.

Fonts

literature

  • Moritz Nölting, Tim Wegener: RWLE Möller. All pictures. 1971-2000. RWLE Möller Foundation, Celle 2002. ( CD-ROM )

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See also Ralf Winter: In Celle a wall is being built against refugees / Nazis can only complain about the “lax approach of the judiciary” ( Memento from December 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), in: Zeitschrift für Refugeespolitik in Niedersachsen , issue 4+ 5/2000, issue 69/70, August / September 2000 on the website of the Refugee Council Lower Saxony eV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and cross-references
  2. ↑ a b Frank R. Bulla (responsible): In memoriam on the page cellerscene , the city ​​magazine Celler Scene Online in the version of December 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Bernd pad: tribute to RWLE Möller. In: Revista. Left newspaper for politics and culture from Celle. Issue 8 [o. D., 2001], p. 8 f .; downloadable ( memento of December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) as a PDF document
  4. ^ Anne Denecke, Peter Piontek ( editor ), Barbara Falkenberg, Dietlind Freiberg (collaborator): Literature in Lower Saxony. A manual. Edited by the Lower Saxony Literature Council e. V., Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89244-443-9 , p. 51; online through google books
  5. ↑ a b Bernd Polster (Red.): Who was RWLE Möller? ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On the RWLE Möller Foundation website , last accessed on December 14, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Bernd Polster (bp): Reminder of RWLE on the formweh.de page from November 10, 2012.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h N.N. : RWLE Möller on the jpf.de website , the version dated December 14, 2015 saved in the Internet Archive
  8. ↑ a b c d e Ralf Hübner (Responsible): On the death of RWLE Möller. In: Revista… issue 8, p. 8.
  9. ^ Cathrin Block: Celler literati / Against the line / RWLE Möller and the Celler. In: Asphalt magazine . November 1995.
  10. ↑ a b c RWLE Möller in Christopher Wieszt: Interview with RWLE Möller (reprint from Publiz. No. 18 from February / March 1998), in: Revista…. Edition 8, p. 9 ff.
  11. ↑ Reinhard Rohde (contact person): The project on the Celle page under National Socialism. A historical city tour.
  12. ↑ Reinhard Rohde (contact person): locate history on the page Celle in National Socialism ...
  13. ↑ Roland Barese (responsible): From the history of the colorful house , in the version dated December 14, 2015.
  14. ^ Foundation ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the RWLE Möller Foundation website , last accessed on December 15, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Möller, RWLE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Möller, Reinhard Walter Ludwig Eduard (full name); Möller, RWLE; Möller, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, local historian and non-fiction author, gay man and founder of the foundation
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 2001
Place of death Celle