Walter Supper

This article is about the architect, organ expert and preservationist. For the screenwriter of the same name see Walter Supper (screenwriter) .

Walter Supper (born September 9, 1908 in Esslingen am Neckar ; † August 22, 1984 ) was a German architect , organ expert and monument conservator .

Life

Supper studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He received his doctorate in 1934 with the dissertation “Architect and Organ Builder”. From 1938 he worked as a building officer for the city of Stuttgart and taught as a lecturer at the University of Music in Stuttgart . During the Nazi era , Supper designed several organs for party buildings, including an organ for a flag hall with a swastika several meters high. At the same time he held the office of organist at the Frauenkirche in Esslingen.

Supper's view of the organ was shaped by the organ movement . In 1939 he spoke out publicly against a modern organ design based on the architecture of the New Building . In 1951 he was a co-founder of the Society of Organ Friends . The dispositions of the organs he designed were considered balanced in their day; they avoided extremely neo-baroque or experimental sounds. Supper designed & a. Disposition as well as case and prospect design of the main organ of the Ulm Minster, inaugurated in 1969 .

Fonts (selection)

• Architect and master organ builder. 1934.
• Organ design , essay for the conference of the organ working group of the Hitler Youth , 1939.
• On the musical expressiveness of the organ , in: Die Baugilde , Issue 19, 1939.
• Architect and organ building, ways to new organ designs through the organ movement , Kassel, Bärenreiter-Verlag, 1940.
• The small organ letter. 1949.
• The organ disposition. 1950.
• (Ed.): Reader for organ people. 1951.
• Organ movement and historicism. 1958.
• Guidelines for the protection of old, valuable organs. Weilheim regulatory. 1958.
• Color in the cityscape. Experience of the city color consultant after 10 years of activity. 1984.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In: Die Baugilde. Magazine for the German architects . Issue 19, 1939, p. 633.
2. ↑ In: Die Baugilde. Magazine for the German architects . Issue 19, 1939, pp. 629-632.

literature

• Alfred Reichling (Ed.): Mundus organorum. Commemorative publication for Walter Supper's 70th birthday. Merseburger, Berlin 1978.
• Herbert Nitsche: Spaces - Sounds - Colors. In memoriam Dr. Walter Supper. In: Württembergische Blätter für Kirchenmusik 52, 1985, pp. 67–89.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Supper in the catalog of the German National Library