Walther Hensel (music educator)

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Memorial plaque in Teplitz, Bohemia.

Walther Hensel (actually Julius Janiczek ; born September 8, 1887 in Mährisch Trübau , Austria-Hungary ; †  September 5, 1956 in Munich ) was a German music educator who primarily devoted himself to the research and maintenance of folk songs.

Life and effect

The rural Hensel studied German and musicology in Vienna, Freiburg / Switzerland and Prague and initially worked as a teacher at the Prague Commercial Academy . In 1924 he called the Finkensteiner Bund into being as part of the youth music movement . From 1925 to 1927 he directed the youth music school in Dortmund, from 1930 he taught at the Stuttgart adult education center. He also directed choirs. In 1938 he took the "Anschluss des Sudetenlandes" - the choice of words of the Walther Hensel Society based in Winnenden , Swabia  - as an opportunity to return to his homeland. He settled in Teplitz with his second wife Paula . In 1941 the Philosophical Faculty of the German University in Prague awarded him the Eichendorff Prize . At the same time he received the state commission to research German and Slavic folk songs in the Bohemian-Moravian region. According to the website mentioned, Hensel's work “under the Hitler regime ... was made more difficult by many conditions. The fighting and stomping songs of the SA and the Hitler Youth are anathema to him, they are the opposite of what he is striving for with the inner renewal of the people through the song. The assertion that the Horst-Wessel-Lied was musically worthless testifies to his courage . ”From 1946 to 1950, Hensel worked as a scientific advisor at the municipal library in Munich. Shortly before his death (1956) he was honored with the Sudeten German Culture Prize.

Alongside Fritz Jöde and Hans Breuer (editor of the “Zupfgeigenhansl”), Hensel was one of the leading figures in the youth music movement. In addition, numerous arrangements or settings of folk songs originate from his pen, including a setting of the poem Go out, my heart, and seek Freud by Paul Gerhardt , which is particularly preferred by choirs . Hensel was the first author of the Bärenreiter-Verlag, founded in 1923 . A primary and secondary school in Göppingen is named after Walther Hensel, and a German-Czech meeting center bears his name in his hometown.

Works

  • Song and people. A pamphlet against the wrong German song , 1921
  • In the sign of the folk song , 1922
  • Wake up. Festive Magi , 1924
  • Sing praises. Spiritual songs , 1926
  • Finkensteiner song book , 1926
  • The Singing Source , song book, 1929
  • The upright flag , songbook, 1923
  • Spinner Lobunddank , book of fairy tales, 1932
  • Lönslieder , 1934
  • Basic musical theory. A guide for laypeople , 1936
  • On the trail of the folk song , 1944

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the publisher's website ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2010 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. , accessed April 21, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baerenreiter.com
  2. ↑ See school page ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2010 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. , accessed April 21, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.whs-goeppingen.de
  3. ↑ See: "Walther Hensel" meeting center , Society for German-Czech Understanding, accessed on October 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Hensel, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Janiczek, Julius (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk song researcher and collector
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Moravian Trübau
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1956
Place of death Munich