Wieland Museum (Biberach)

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The Wieland Museum in Saudengasse

The Wieland Museum in Biberach an der Riss recalls the life and work of the poet and writer Christoph Martin Wieland who grew up here . The first memorial was founded in 1905 by the Biberacher Kunst- und Altertumsverein under the direction of Reinhold Schelle and opened in 1907 in the Wieland garden house, the upper floor of which Wieland rented from 1766 to 1769 while he was the office administrator. After many years of voluntary care, the museum became the property of the city of Biberach in 1972 and was divided into three sub-areas: Wieland archive, Wieland garden house and Wieland showroom. In 2009 the Wieland Museum received a new permanent exhibition in the Wieland garden house. The Wieland Museum is located next to the Wieland archive under the umbrella of the Christoph Martin Wieland Foundation Biberach .

Wieland archive

The Wieland Archive is a research facility with a library of over 15,500 books, magazines and offprints as well as over 1,000 manuscripts, including more than 350 personal letters from Wieland. There is also an extensive collection of images and objects, including the Wieland portrait by Georg Oswald May from 1779. The collection focuses on: Wieland's works in all printed editions as well as manuscripts by the poet and his contemporaries, as well as contemporary and secondary literature on the subject of Wieland . The reconstruction of Wieland's private library as well as special collections on Sophie von La Roche , Justin Heinrich Knecht and the history of theater in the 18th century are other areas of responsibility. The Wieland Archive is co-editor of the book series Wieland Studies , which serves as a publication organ for Wieland research. The Wieland archive also looks after the two permanent exhibitions in the Wieland garden house and in the Wieland showroom.

Wieland garden house

View into the "women's room" in the Wieland Museum

In the Wieland garden house (Saudengasse 10/1) the permanent exhibition “Gardens in Wieland's World” shows the importance of garden art for Wieland's life and work. From 1766 to 1769 the poet rented the upper floor of the larger of the two garden houses as a refuge. It was there that the fairy tale Idris and Zenide and large parts of the development novel The Story of Agathon were written . The exhibition takes the viewer from the rural parish garden in Oberholzheim , Wieland's birthplace, to the country estate in Oßmannstedt, which the poet had acquired as a retirement home. In between, Warthausen Castle is remembered, where Wieland frequented the courtly circle around Count Anton Heinrich Friedrich von Stadion and in the company of Sophie von La Roche during his Biberach years, as well as the city of Weimar , the castles and parklands of Tiefurt and Belvedere , but also to the poetic artistic landscapes of the Irrhain from the Pegnese Flower Order near Nuremberg or to the Sanspareil Park near Bayreuth. The garden house with ancillary building is now adjacent to the Biberacher Bürgerpark, which opened in 1999. As a result of the redesign, the ensemble has largely lost its original character.

Wieland showroom

The Wieland showroom used to be in the Fruchtschranne behind the town hall. Among other things, the Biberach theater world and literary life in the second half of the 18th century were presented here. Among the showpieces, for example, was the theater board of the Bürgerliche Komödiantengesellschaft zu Biberach, painted in oil on wood by Johann Martin Klauflügel in 1749. But the political situation in the former imperial city was also taken into account, whereby the special form of government, the parity of the two denominations, provided numerous suggestions for Wieland's novel The History of the Abderites . Numerous memorabilia showed the long-standing worship of Wieland in his hometown. Wieland's life and work were explained in a multimedia presentation and shown in video clips and pictures. With the redesign of the permanent exhibition in the Wieland garden house in 2009, the Wieland showroom was dissolved in its previous form. The poet's life and work are now presented in a new showroom on the ground floor of the garden house.

Wieland sites in Biberach

Warthausen Castle 1781

The former Gasthaus Zum Schwarzen Bären (Marktplatz 2) is the parent house of the Wieland family. Furthermore, Wieland's parents' house (Waaghausstraße 3) and Wieland's school (Old Latin School, Zwingergasse 5) have been preserved. In the former comedy house in the Schlachtmetzig (Viehmarktstrasse 8), 1686 - 1858 Biberach's theater hall, Der Sturm was staged in September 1761 as the first German Shakespeare performance ever under Wieland's direction and in its translation (scraffito picture on the facade). Wieland's official seat as the office administrator with an official apartment was located near the old town hall (Hindenburgstrasse 3). The poet was honored with a memorial in 1881 in Wieland Park (Theaterstrasse in front of the town hall). According to tradition, the Wieland linden tree is considered the place of engagement with Wieland's cousin Sophie Gutermann, who later became the writer Sophie von La Roche . A high-altitude hiking trail, which Wieland often used, leads to the nearby Warthausen, whose castle museum still preserves numerous memorabilia from Wieland and the literary circle around Count Friedrich von Stadion.

Head of the Wieland Museum

See also

Wieland's birthplace

literature

  • Bock, Heinrich: Wieland in Biberach and Weimar, Stuttgart 1990.
  • Bock, Heinrich: Wieland Museum. Published by the cultural office of the city of Biberach, 2nd edition, Biberach 1998.
  • Gardens in Wieland's world. Edited by Heinrich Bock and Hans Radlayers (Marbacher Magazin 40), 2nd edition Marbach am Neckar 1998.
  • Ottenbacher, Viia; Bock, Heinrich: "... how Shakespeare has his Pyramus and Thisbe performed." Wieland's Komödienhaus in Biberach, Marbach am Neckar 1991.
  • Radplayer, Hans: Christoph Martin Wieland 1733 - 1813. Life and work in Upper Swabia, Weißenhorn 1983.
  • Radlayers, Hans: Wieland-Museum Biberach an der Riss 1905 - 1985, 2nd edition Biberach 1990.
  • Wieland in pictures. Edited by Rainer Kopf, Heinrich Bock, Viia Ottenbacher, Biberach 1998.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '44.8 "  N , 9 ° 47' 28.8"  E