Villa Irmgard
The Villa Irmgard (formerly also called Maxim Gorki Museum ) is a local museum and a memorial for the Russian writer Maxim Gorki in the Baltic Sea resort of Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
The spa architecture building was erected in 1906 on today's Maxim-Gorki-Strasse, which runs parallel to the beach promenade. The two-storey villa was built on a small hill as a guest house in the style of neoclassicism . The parapet grilles articulated by pilasters buttress and the semi-circular balcony, elements of Art Nouveau on. You are unique in Heringsdorf.
The most prominent guest was Maxim Gorki, who came to Usedom from Berlin in 1922 with his son Maxim and daughter-in-law Alexejewa Peschkowa in order to seek recovery from his tuberculosis disease, which broke out again in 1921 . At that time the villa belonged to a lawyer. During his stay between May and September 1922, Gorky worked on the third part of his autobiography "My Universities", maintained intensive correspondence with the French writers Romain Rolland and Anatole France as well as with his Russian colleagues Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin , Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov and others. He received a visit from Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy , who was traveling from Międzyzdroje to meet his friend Gorky, and from the opera singer Fyodor Ivanovich Chalyapin , with whom he was close friends. A daughter of Chaliapin stayed at Gorky's guest for a while. In the guest book of the house, Gorky immortalized himself with the sentence “And yet and despite everything, people will one day live like brothers”. The phrase “and yet and in spite of it all” can be traced back to his encounter with sick and miserable children of Heringsdorf residents, a strong social contrast to the life of the guests at the luxury spa. On September 25, 1922, Gorky traveled on to Bad Saarow am Scharmützelsee .
In 1948 the Villa Irmgard was set up as a memorial for Maxim Gorki and was then temporarily named "Maxim Gorki Museum". You can see his living and working rooms, which are furnished in the style of the time of his stay and some of them still have the original furniture. The permanent exhibition reminds of other prominent guests in the villa and in Heringsdorf. The museum also gives an overview of the history of the place. There are monthly changing artist exhibitions. The program of events includes concerts in the rooms on the upper floor as well as smaller theater performances.
Web links
- Literature about Villa Irmgard in the state bibliography MV
- Villa Irmgard on the imperial baths side
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ed.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Pages 302–303. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 48.5 " N , 14 ° 9 ′ 21.8" E