Wolfgang Tarnowski

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Wolfgang Tarnowski (born February 25, 1931 in Seeburg / East Prussia; † May 3, 2018 in Hamburg ) was a German doctor, biochemist , politician and author . From 1978 to 1983 he was the Senator for Culture of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .

Life

Wolfgang Tarnowski's grave

Wolfgang Tarnowski was born as the son of the veterinarian Otto Tarnowski and the teacher Maria Magdalena. Labotzki was born in Seeburg in East Prussia. Towards the end of the Second World War, he and his family had to flee from the Red Army to West Germany under dramatic circumstances, where his father re-established his veterinary practice in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein.

From 1946 to 1951 Tarnowski attended the Katharineum in Lübeck, where he graduated from high school in 1951. He then completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and industrial clerk at a German-American oil company in Hamburg until 1953. After completing his commercial training, Tarnowski studied medicine and art history at the University of Hamburg from 1953 to 1958. There he passed his medical state examination in December 1958.

After completing the prescribed training period as a medical assistant, the young doctor received his medical license in May 1961 and received his doctorate in August 1961 with a thesis on the subject of "Clinical and functional late results after resection therapy for primary and secondary bronchiectasis in children."

Tarnowski continued his scientific career as a scholarship holder of the German Research Foundation, later as a scientific assistant at the Physiological-Chemical Institute of the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf . There he completed his habilitation in 1966 with a thesis on the "regulation of gluconeogenesis" for the subject of physiological chemistry. From 1971 he worked as a professor for life and head of a research department for biochemical endocrinology and metabolic regulation at the Physiological-Chemical Institute.

Between 1970 and 1974 Tarnowski was the representative of the lecturers and associate professors of the medical faculty in the Academic Senate of Hamburg University and, as a member of the SPD parliamentary group, deputy of the Hamburg health authority. In 1974 he was elected a member of the Hamburg citizenship, where he headed the committees for health and culture as spokesman for medicine, universities and culture for the SPD parliamentary group.

After the general election in 1978, Tarnowski served as Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from June 1978 to February 1983 under the mayors Hans-Ulrich Klose and Klaus von Dohnanyi - first as Senator and President of the Authority for Science and Art, then as Senator and President of the Cultural Authority .

During his tenure as Senator for Culture, the appointment of a new director of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus fell in 1978 after the majority of the responsible bodies wanted to end the term of office of the incumbent Ivan Nagel because of his administration in the previous years. The search process turned out to be difficult because an ideological war was waged over the pros and cons of Nagels remaining in office with indiscretions and misinformation, which deterred well-known theater people from applying. Far-reaching promises had also been made by leading politicians without the knowledge of the responsible senator, which were later not kept and therefore had lasting consequences for the appeal process and for the state theater scene in the city. At the end of this hysterically charged “theater crisis”, the selection committee decided in favor of Niels-Peter Rudolph , who soon gave the Deutsches Schauspielhaus its own profile.

Since the beginning of his term in office, Senator Tarnowski has been working on a systematic reorientation of Hamburg's cultural policy, the goals of which were to increase the cultural budget and a determined conceptual redirection of undefined funds to previously neglected or new cultural policy priorities. Both goals were achieved during Senator Tarnowski's tenure. The most important innovations of the years 1978–1983 included u. a .:

  • A sustainable increase in the operating budget of the cultural authority by almost 50%.
  • A deliberately expanding monument protection policy with extensive special programs (including the protection of unique residential buildings from the 20s and 30s).
  • The adoption of a promising museum development plan with significantly improved financial and human resources for the museums.
  • The re-establishment of a museum educational service that did not exist in Hamburg to date.
  • The establishment of a photo museum for the largest photo collection in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Museum of Art and Commerce.
  • The establishment of an independent “ Museum of Work ”.
  • The expansion of the "Museum Island" at Ferdinandstor.
  • The adoption of a future-oriented “library development plan” for the next decade by the Hamburg citizenship.
  • The extension of the “Stiftung Hamburger Bücherhallen” by four more houses.
  • The re-establishment of the "Theater Culture Center Kampnagelfabrik" with the perspective of a future venue for independent theater groups.
  • Preservation and expansion of the former operetta house with the aim of expanding the city's theaters to include a venue for operettas, musicals, ballet, shows and entertainment and thus stimulating further offers of this kind - impetus for the development of Hamburg into the leading musical metropolis in the Federal Republic of Germany .
  • The expansion of ballet director John Neumeier's ballet department at the Hamburg State Opera and the establishment of an independent ballet school.
  • The development of sustainable state private theater funding.
  • The establishment of an independent municipal cinema.
  • The establishment and organization of a "Hamburg model" of cultural film funding, which was unique in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. Linked to this: the re-establishment of a "film house for filmmakers".
  • As part of the basic program “Culture for All”: the foundation and sustainable support of 6 large and 18 smaller district cultural centers.
  • The establishment of a document house on the site of the former Neuengamme concentration camp.
  • Conception and implementation of a “Jewish Monuments” program to make visible and remember the Jewish institutions in the city that were destroyed by the Nazis.
  • The erection of a monument for Heinrich Heine on the newly designed town hall market.
  • The erection of a memorial for Georg Philipp Telemann in front of the Hamburg City Hall.

Senator Tarnowski informed the citizens of Hamburg about these and other cultural policy measures during his tenure in a “Culture Report” (1982) and the Senate with the document “Culture for All. A balance sheet. Brief overview of the concept and results of social democratic cultural policy for Hamburg in the years 1978-1983 ”(1983).

In the 1970s, Wolfgang Tarnowski emerged as a successful author of non-fiction for young people. For the WAS-IST-WAS series by Hamburg-based Tessloff Verlag, he wrote a total of seven volumes, two of which were included in the shortlist for the German youth non-fiction award.

In addition, Tarnowski devoted himself increasingly to scientific studies on topics from the history of art and literature. These included u. a. Investigations into the art of writing in the Middle Ages, the art ideology of National Socialism, the history of motifs in the works of Goethe and Thomas Mann and, since the early 1980s, extensive research into the life, work and thoughts of Ernst Barlach, which has appeared in a large number of books and essays.

Wolfgang Tarnowski had been with Katrin Tarnowski, b. Rittich, married and has three children. In 1993 his wife gave up her medical practice in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel and has since worked as a successful type artist, painter and sculptor. Wolfgang Tarnowski found his final resting place in the Hamburg cemetery Ohlsdorf , where he was buried in grid square R 4 (near the main entrance).

Works (selection)

  • The "Regulation of Gluconeogenesis" (habilitation thesis), Hamburg 1966.
  • Hormonal and metabolic control of rat liever glycerol kinase activity (with SC Kampf and HJ Seitz)
  • Long time perfusion of the isolates rat liver. Maintainance of its functional state by use of a fluorocarbon emulsion (with W. Krone, WB Huttner, CS Kampf, B. Rittich and HJ Seitz). Biochim. Biophys. Acta 372: 55-71 (1974)
  • The fuels of respiration of the isolates perfused rat kidney (with H. Huland, HJ Seitz and Ch. Weiss). Life Sciences 14, 117-128 (1974)
  • Stimulation of DBcAMP and glucocorticoids of P-enolpyruvate-carboxykinase in the isolates perfused rat liver. (with WB Huttner, W. Krone and HJ Seitz). Biochem. J. 142, 691-693, (1974).
  • Induction of advice on P-enolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) in cyclic AMP during starvation. The permissive action of glucocorticoids (with W. Krone, WB Huttner and HJ Seitz), Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 437: 62-70 (1976).
  • Food-independent regulation of the intermediate metabolism (with HJ Seitz) in: Biochemie and Physiology of Nutrition, Part 3, Stuttgart / New York (1980).
  • In the youth non-fiction book series WAS IST WAS by Tessloff-Verlag (Hamburg / Nuremberg): Our body (with K. Tarnowski, 1973); Buccaneers (1982); Gladiators (1987); Mummies, (1988); Ritter (1990); Samurai (1992); Witches and Warlocks (1994). Total circulation: approx. 2 million in 12 languages
  • Ernst Barlach and National Socialism, Catholic Academy Hamburg, Hamburg 1989.
  • Ernst Barlach-Reinhard Piper: Correspondence 1900–1938, R. Piper u. Co. Verlag, Munich 1997.
  • In the footsteps of Thomas Mann, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 1997.
  • In the footsteps of Ernst Barlach, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2005.
  • "I don't have a god, but God has me". Ernst Barlach. On the role of religion in his thinking and work, Ernst Barlach Society, Hamburg 2007.
  • Ernst Barlach. Life, work, world of thoughts, Ernst Barlach Society, Hamburg 2016.

Web links

Obituaries

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senate mourns the loss of former Senator for Culture Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tarnowski , accessed on May 25, 2018
  2. ↑ a b Everyone can say anything openly with us. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from June 28, 1978.
  3. ^ Benjamin Henrichs: Senator Tarnowski's case. Kulturkampf in Hamburg: A politician is overwhelmed . In: Die Zeit, issue 44/1978. October 27, 1978, accessed September 8, 2015.
  4. ↑ Tarnowski wants to speak to Peymann. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from August 19, 1978.
  5. ↑ Events have shown how right I was. In: Hamburger Abendblatt from November 3, 1978.
  6. ↑ Benjamin Henrichs: From the chicken and from the grain. In: Die Zeit, edition 7/1979. February 9, 1979. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Tarnowski, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biochemist, author and politician (SPD), MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Seeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2018
Place of death Hamburg