Vivat! Homage to the Weimar court

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Under the title Vivat! Tribute writings at the Weimarer Hof an exhibition was shown from February 6, 2010 to March 6, 2011 in the Renaissance hall of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar , which presented particularly outstanding pieces from the collection of tribute writings in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library.

Special exhibits

The sixty exhibits included a homage with a congratulatory aria on the birthday of Wilhelm Ernst , Duke of Saxony-Weimar, which Johann Sebastian Bach's setting as an autograph (“Alles mit Gott und nothing ohn 'him”, BWV 1127). A particularly splendid exhibit was an homage to Ernst-August II. Von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach on his birthday on June 2, 1750. The text by the Gotha Fourier Heinrich Carl Koenig was presented in it as a richly illustrated manuscript on parchment. In addition, printed tributes by Johann Wolfgang Goethe , Friedrich Schiller and Christoph Martin Wieland were shown.

Exhibition catalog

An extensive, illustrated exhibition catalog was published for the exhibition (see literature). In addition to a foreword and an introductory essay, it contains several scientific articles, numerous illustrated catalog descriptions, a bibliography and a register of persons.

literature

  • Vivat! Homage to the Weimar court; on behalf of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar , Duchess Anna Amalia Library ed. by Claudia Kleinbub and Johannes Mangei. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010. - 223 pp. ISBN 978-3-525-35894-8 .
  • Boblenz, Frank: Homage to the Weimar court in the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar and a gift from Empress Augusta of Prussia (1811-1890) . In: Archives in Thuringia. Newsletter. - Weimar: Thuringian Main State Archive [u. a.]. - 2011, pp. 13-17.
  • Mangei, Johannes: Vivat! Homage to the Weimar court . In: Supralibros, Heft 6, 2009, p. 28.
  • Mangei, Johannes: The prince's happiness - the country's joy: Homage writings from Apolda for the Weimar prince's house . In: Apoldaer Heimat: Contributions to the nature and local history of the city of Apolda and its surroundings. - Apolda. - Vol. 30. 2012, no. 2, pp. 31-43.
  • Mangei, Johannes: Exhibitions in Thuringian libraries - using the example of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library . In: Announcements of the Thuringia Regional Association in the German Library Association 2013, No. 2, pp. 1–3, here pp. 2 and 3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ reviewed by Schmidmaier, Dieter. In: Marginalia. Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliophilie 199 (2010), no. 3, pp. 78–80 and von Freyer, Stefanie. In: Journal for Thuringian History 66 (2012), pp. 328–329.