Siegfried Kessemeier

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Siegfried Kessemeier (born November 20, 1930 in Oeventrop , † November 1, 2011 in Münster ) was a Westphalian regional historian , dialect poet and museum curator .

Life

Kessemeier came from a family of glassmakers that originally came from Lippe . He studied journalism, history, philosophy and German in Münster and Munich . He received his doctorate with a thesis on Catholic journalism in the Third Reich. He then worked as a journalist and was among other things editor of the magazine Westfalenspiegel . Between 1972 and 1978 he was managing director of the Association of Westphalian Museums. As such, he has made a significant contribution to the establishment of several new institutions. This includes the slate mining and local history museum in Holthausen , the organ museum in Borgentreich or the bell museum in Gescher .

Since 1978 he has been a consultant for regional history at the regional museum of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association . In this role he played a key role in designing several large exhibition projects until he left in 1995. These include the exhibition Cologne-Westphalia 1180–1980, Westphalia in Maps (1986), Heads of the Revolution (1989), Bischofsländer (1993). In 1999, while still retiring, he prepared the major exhibition on the revolution of 1848/49 in Westphalia and Lippe as curator.

He was particularly devoted to caricatures and the history of minorities and social movements. He was also a connoisseur of industrial and landscape images.

In addition, he worked intensively on the Low German dialect poetry. He published numerous articles in the Sauerländer Platt and on the Low German language . He has received several awards for his Low German poetry. In 1969 he received the Rottendorf Prize for Low German literature in Westphalian dialects, in 1975 he was awarded the Klaus Groth Prize , in 1997 the Culture Prize of the Hochsauerlandkreis and in 2002 the Wilhelmine Siefkes Prize of the city of Leer. The book Carl van der Linde, Löö en Tieden , edited by him , was voted Low German Book of the Year 2009 .

literature

  • Peter Bürger: “dedenne floiget de äogenschlag” - On the death of Siegfried Kessemeier. Sauerland 2011/3: 195.

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personal data
SURNAME Kessemeier, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German regional historian and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Oeventrop (Arnsberg)
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2011
Place of death Muenster