Raabe house
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 34 ″ N , 10 ° 32 ′ 26 ″ E
The Raabe House is a historic building in Braunschweig , in which the writer Wilhelm Raabe lived from 1901 until his death in 1910. Today there is a literature center there, which is used as an event location, research center and museum.
Wilhelm Raabe's birthplace in Eschershausen , built in 1828, is also known as the “Raabehaus”. There is a museum about the poet there.
history
In 1870 Wilhelm Raabe moved with his wife and two daughters from Stuttgart to Braunschweig, where he finally settled. Initially, the family lived for three months with Raabe's mother-in-law Caroline Leiste in Johannishof , then in a rented apartment at Salzdahlumer Weg 3 , today Böcklerstraße 9 . This was followed by several changes of apartment in Braunschweig: From 1882 to 1886 he lived at Wolfenbüttler Straße 9 , 1886 to 1896 at Leisewitzstraße 7 , 1896 to 1901 Am Windmühlenberg 3 Finally he moved into a spacious 7-room apartment at Leonhardstraße 29 a , the today's Raabe-Haus, where he died on November 15, 1910.
Raabe spent a total of forty years in Braunschweig. Half of his around seventy novels and stories were written here, including such well-known works as Horacker (1876), Pfister's Mühle (1884), Das Odfeld (1888) and Stopfkuchen (1891). After the death of Raabe's wife Bertha on May 7, 1914, the daughter Margarethe Raabe stayed on Leonhardstrasse and managed her father's estate. On the occasion of Raabe's 90th birthday, a memorial plaque was attached to the house in 1921.
When the building was badly damaged by an air mine on April 23, 1944, Raabe's library, his manuscripts, drawings and the furniture in his study were brought to safety. After the restoration of the house, the city of Braunschweig opened a memorial for the writer on September 8, 1948 in the former Raabe apartment.
The literary center
The Raabe-Haus belongs to the cultural institute of the city of Braunschweig, which with the literature center on the one hand promotes and mediates contemporary literature, and on the other hand maintains and preserves Wilhelm Raabe's literary legacy. In several exhibition rooms, information is provided about Raabe's life and work using manuscripts, diaries, notebooks, letters and drawings. In addition, the originally preserved study with Raabe's private library is shown.
The research center is affiliated with the Braunschweig City Library . She looks after and processes the literary estate and provides information on scientific inquiries. The literature center also awards the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize , one of the most highly endowed literature prizes in Germany.
literature
- Gerd Biegel : From the Raabe Memorial to the Raabe House , Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-927939-72-2
- Kurt Hoffmeister: Wilhelm Raabe Memorial Site , in: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon , Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 247
- Raabe-Haus Braunschweig: Museum - venue - literary house [City of Braunschweig, cultural institute], Braunschweig 2000, ISBN 3-926701-46-3