Susanne Himmelträger

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Susanne Mayer-Himmelträger (* 1946 as Susanne Himmelträger ) is a German art historian and former bookseller.

Live and act

Susanne Himmelheber's parents are the ethnologists Ulrike (1920–2015) and Hans Himmelträger (1908–2003). Her half-brother is the ethnologist Eberhard Fischer (* 1941). Her younger brother Martin Himmelträger (* 1953) is a journalist. Her daughter Clara (* 1970) is also an ethnologist.

Susanne Mayer-Himmelträger received her doctorate in art history in 1984 with a dissertation on the subject of episcopal art policy after the Tridentinum . As an art historian, she worked in museums in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg and published, mostly accompanying exhibitions, on Carlo Borromeo , Karin Bruns , Wilhelm Fraenger , Frans Masereel and Alfred Mombert as well as on the Biedermeier period in Heidelberg.

From 1991 she was the owner of a former women's bookstore in Heidelberg, which she renamed the Himmelhub bookstore . In 2010 she was named Book Woman of the Year by the Books Women network . In 2012, she sold the bookstore, which closed three years later.

Susanne Himmelträger is a founding member of the Heidelberg History Association and has held positions with the Soroptimists , the German Women's Ring and the Association of German Artists and Art Friends .

Publications (selection)

  • 1984: Episcopal art policy after the Tridentinum. Carlo Barromeo's secunda Roma claim and the Milanese ordinances on the building and furnishing of churches. Herbert Utz Publishing House. ISBN 978-3-88073-153-0
  • 1940 with Frans Masereel: Frans Masereel, Diary of an escape drawn from Paris to Avignon ; for the exhibition in the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg
  • 1989, adaptation and preface: Karin Bruns: watercolors, drawings, prints. Heidelberg Art Association. ISBN 978-3-926905031
  • 1989, foreword: Walter Böckh: Exhibition at the Old University of Heidelberg from September 16 to October 8, 1989 . Heidelberg Art Association. ISBN 978-3-926905055
  • 1990, foreword: Walter Gillich: a retrospective ; for the exhibition of the Heidelberger Kunstverein and the Kurpfälzisches Museum. ISBN 978-3-926905116
  • 1993 with Ursula Krauch: Mityas. Pictures 1984-1993.
  • 1995 with Barbara Böckmann: Music in Heidelberg 1777 - 1885 ; for the exhibition of the Kurpfälzisches Museum
  • 1982: CP Clapeko - Drawings: Didactic Notes on Concrete Art; Exhibition of the Kurpfälzisches Museum from April 30, 1982 to May 31, 1982 . Catalog of the Kurpfälzisches Museum
  • 1999 with Carl-Ludwig Fuchs: Biedermeier in Heidelberg 1812-1853 . University Press Winter. ISBN 978-3-825309848
  • 2006 with Karl-Ludwig Hofmann: Friedrich Martinotto the time in Heidelberg and in Oviga 1960 - 1973 . Sweeper. ISBN 978-3-936636819
  • 2017 with Joachim Heintze , Wolfgang U. Eckart et al .: Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg. Booklet accompanying the exhibition. Reprint of the corrected and supplemented edition from 2006. Ed. By Matthias Untermann . ISBN 978-3-946531227

As editor:

  • 1993: Alfred Mombert (1872-1942) , Verlag Das Wunderhorn. ISBN 978-3-884230862 ; for the exhibition of the German-American Institute in cooperation with the city of Heidelberg
  • 2004 with Kark L Hofmann and the Cultural Office of the City of Heidelberg: New Art, Living Science: Wilhelm Fraenger and his Heidelberger Kreis 1910 to 1937 . Kurpfälzischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-924566227 ; accompanying the exhibition of the cultural office of the city of Heidelberg in cooperation with the Wilhelm Fraenger Foundation and the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg in the Heidelberger Kunstverein

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sky lifter, Ulrike; born Romans . In: Bettina Beer : Women in German-speaking ethnology: a manual. Böhlau Verlag, 2007. ISBN 9783412112066 . Pages 90-94. ( Google Book )
  2. ↑ Hans and Ulrike Himmel HEIFER, Stations of Life - 16. The Himmel HEIFER family , May 31, 2008. In: Website of the Association of Friends of African Culture About Africa & the rest of the world . Retrieved February 28, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Susanne Himmelträger is Book Woman of the Year 2010 , July 19, 2010. In: Borsenblatt.net . Retrieved February 28, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Anja Lösch: Laudation for Susanne Himmelträger . ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: website of the books women . Retrieved February 28, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buecherfrauen.de
  5. ↑ Advice is still very important here , February 16, 2012. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . Retrieved February 28, 2017
  6. ↑ The bookstore "Himmelhub" in the old town closes on May 30, 2015. In: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . Retrieved February 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Sky lifter, Susanne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayer-Himmelträger, Susanne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and former bookseller
DATE OF BIRTH 1946