Therese Hallinger

Therese Hallinger (born June 22, 1909 in Regensburg ; † March 27, 2001 in Hamburg ) was a German master craftsman ( embroidery , weaving and lace making ) and lecturer at the State School of Applied Arts in Hamburg, today's Hamburg University of Fine Arts .

St. Mark's Lion (1945), draft ( lace letter ) a. Execution ( handmade lace ) by Th. Hallinger. Exhibition for the 700th anniversary of Cologne Cathedral (1948)

Life

Growing up in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst , she took part in courses for “further training for teachers” during her school days at the Catholic Lyceum on Holstendamm, which were offered by the nearby arts and crafts school on Lerchenfeld in techniques of textile work. After graduating from school and passing the entrance exam, she attended the arts and crafts school (1926–1929). As a student in the embroidery class of Maria Brinckmann , a daughter of Justus Brinckmann , Hallinger also volunteered at several embroidery companies during the semester break. At the same time she completed a craft apprenticeship with a journeyman's examination (1930), which was followed by four semesters in the drawing class with Professor Paul Helms . After a practical traineeship at the textile company Oberdorf & Straub in Stuttgart , she was employed there permanently, which she held until her successful master craftsman examination (1935). After years of self-employment with mainly church assignments, Hallinger took over the management of the embroidery class at the Landeskunstschule im Lerchenfeld in Hamburg in 1940, which after 1945 was also assigned to the master school for fashion with responsibility for teacher training in the subject of "textile works". In this function Therese Hallinger worked as a successful and honored teacher until she retired in 1969.

The meaning of “ embroidery ” at the beginning of the 20th century , which is hardly understandable today, consists, among other things, of the socio-cultural function that these textile craftsmanship skills developed by Maria Brinckmann and Paul Helms into a female training occupation . Since the beginning of the 1920s, this profession gave women access to the then largely male-dominated and cameralistically organized handicrafts industry in Germany through a well-founded artistic and manual training . The targeted professionalization has developed a considerable emancipatory effect since the global economic crisis and the repressive celibacy of teachers , which Therese Hallinger also supported as much as possible.

literature

• Angelika Francke: Embroidery, embroiderers, embroidery companies in: Wolfgang Stiller, Beate Meyer, Barbara Riecke, Uwe Emmenthal (eds.): Handwerk, then and now . Culture Authority Hamburg, Hamburg 1988, pp. 67–79.