Kreuzweg-Stationen – Künstlergespräch mit Bernard Langerock
Der Fotograf Bernard Langerock hat aus seiner umfangreichen Fotoserie “Kreuzphänomene” 15 Arbeiten ausgewählt und sie zu Kreuzwegstationen zusammengestellt. Dr. Kurt-Peter Gertz, Theologe und Kunsthistoriker, setzt sich in seinen Texten assoziativ mit dem Ergebnis dieser Arbeit, einer in der Kunstwelt seltenen Darstellungsform des Kreuzweges, auseinander.
Durch die offene Kombination von Bild und Wort wird den Betrachtenden die Möglichkeit gegeben, eigene Vorstellungen und Gedanken zu entwickeln und sich meditativ in die Fotografien zu vertiefen.
Die Darstellung des Kreuzwegs geht auf die „Via dolorosa“, den historischen Leidensweg Jesu von der Verurteilung bis zur Kreuzigung auf dem Kalvarienberg in Jerusalem zurück.
Der Künstler spricht mit Dr. Melanie Prange über die ausgestellten Arbeiten und den Kreuzweg in der Kunst- und Frömmigkeitsgeschichte.
Bernard Langerock, Fotokünstler
Dr. Melanie Prange, Leiterin Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, Diözesankonservatorin
Donnerstag, 04.04.24, 19:00 – 20:30 Uhr
Haus der Katholischen Kirche, Stuttgart
Eintritt frei
Die Anmeldung erfolgt über die Homepage des Katholischen Bildungswerks Stuttgart:
Anmeldung „Kreuzweg-Stationen – Künstlergespräch mit Bernard Langerock“
Weitere Informationen zur Ausstellung „Kreuzweg-Stationen“ auf der Homepage des Katholischen Bildungswerks Stuttgart:
https://www.kbw-stuttgart.de/veranstaltungen/290224-kreuzweg-stationen/
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Beastly awesome – Creatures from another world
In the churches you often find monstrous creatures that make you think more of a fantasy film. Where do these creatures come from and why are they found in churches of all places?
Watch our new episode of Crucifix – Fascination & Facts now and find out.
Photo: Holy Cross Minster, Rottweil,© Diocese of Rottenburg Stuttgart
Tangible delicate | Finissage with film derby
Until mid-October, our exhibition “Tangible delicate” shows the glass, metal and alabaster sculptures of the renowned Berlin sculptor Susanne Roewer. With a high degree of sensuality and irrepressible power, the artist creates works that seem primordial and futuristic at the same time. The dream-like figures combine pressing political-social themes with religious and literary references. Sometimes her installations are light and airy, characterised by transparency and a shimmering sheen, sometimes they are iron and heavy, firmly adhering to the ground. They show the viewer a world outside the everyday, where opposites meet and living things are created from inorganic matter.
For the exhibition’s finissage on Saturday, 14 October at 5 p.m., Susanne Roewer will once again come to Rottenburg for a cosy evening with film derby. A series of short films and film snippets of an artistic nature are shown in the museum. There is time for snacks and a glass of wine before, between and after the films.
Image caption:
Christian Bahrmann, Wolfgang Schilke and Susanne Roewer
Film still: Between two cups of coffee
(n. y.)
Reichenau Artists’ Days
Ideas of what is sacred have always sought and continue to seek the proximity of the language of art in order to articulate themselves. The “sacred” can initially be understood very openly – with the sociologist of religion Hans Joas as that which can in some way take hold, that which is able to pull individuals or communities beyond themselves. And in such experiences of “self-delimitation or self-exaggeration” then lies an “affective certainty”: a certainty in which – “binding force” develops “whose strength goes beyond everyday experiences” (Hans Joas, Die Macht des Heiligen, 2017, p. 434).
Art can therefore be understood as opening a sensual access to the permanently nonsensual sacred, evoking in a corporeal-material sense, paradoxically representing the transcendent: in its unrepresentability. Art that sees itself in this way is always more than a visual or perceptual object. Their works are powerful media and make themselves and something OTHER appear. They awaken imagination and imagination that goes beyond what is shown, they construct, envision, stage and iconise. That which is thus represented is present and absent at the same time: traces … traces.
The Reichenau Artists’ Days 2023, for which the Kunstverein der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart is responsible, will go in search of traces through listening, seeing, exchanging and reflecting. A search for traces, which the conference will by no means lead to a goal, but which should perhaps be opened at the very beginning. The programme sketches a possible horizon of such a common search for traces and wants to inspire to get involved in corresponding paths.
The preparation team and the board are looking forward to being together in Hersberg. We also welcome the members of the Community of Christian Artists from the Archdiocese of Freiburg.
For further information on registration and the programme, please see the attached flyer.
Image caption:
Marie Lienhard
Video still: gold explosion (Excerpt)
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023
Das Diözesanmuseum sucht eine Museumsaufsicht (m/w/d)
Für das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg suchen wir zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt
eine Museumsaufsicht (m/w/d)
(in Teilzeit 40%, derzeit 15,8 Wochenstunden)
befristet bis 31.07.2024
Das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg beherbergt sakrale Kunst vom 2. bis 21. Jahrhundert, darunter Werke von europäischem Rang. Neben den Gemälden und Skulpturen des Mittelalters, des Barock und der Moderne, verfügt die Sammlung über herausragende Zeugnisse der Metallkunst, hochwertige Paramente, eine in Umfang und Qualität einzigartige Sammlung von historischen Gläsern, zahlreiche Grafiken, Münzen- und Medaillen sowie vielfältige Zeugnisse der religiösen Volksfrömmigkeit.
Ihre Aufgaben sind insbesondere:
- Aufsicht im Museumsraum
- Betreuung des Kassenbereichs mit Museumsshop
- Besucherinformation und Besucherleitung
- Flexibler Einsatz bei Sonderveranstaltungen (z. B. Getränkeausschank)
Sie bringen mit:
- Interesse am Kulturbetrieb
- Zuverlässigkeit
- Kontakt- und Kommunikationsfreude
- Teamfähigkeit
- Flexibilität
- Fremdsprachenkenntnisse wären von Vorteil
- Bereitschaft, sich in Kenntnisse zur Sammlung einarbeiten zu lassen
Wir bieten Ihnen ein abwechslungsreiches Tätigkeitsfeld und die im öffentlichen Dienst üblichen Sozialleistungen wie z.B. Zusatzversorgung aus der ZVK. Das Angestelltenverhältnis richtet sich nach der Arbeitsvertragsordnung der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart (AVO-DRS), vergleichbar dem Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes der Länder (TV-L). Die Eingruppierung erfolgt in Entgeltgruppe 2.
Die Identifikation mit der katholischen Kirche und die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Kirche der christlichen Kirchen (ACK) setzen wir voraus.
Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte per Mail/per Post bis zum 31.10.2023 an das Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, Karmeliterstraße 9, 72108 Rottenburg. Ihre Ansprechpartnerin ist Frau Dr. Melanie Prange, Telefon 07472/ 922-181, E-Mail mprange@bo.drs.de. Für Fragen zum Arbeitsrecht steht Ihnen Frau Birgit Saile-Leins, Telefon 07472/169-650, E-Mail bisaileleins@bo.drs.de zur Verfügung.
Tangible delicate – Vernissage with Poetry Slam
A world full of poetry
The Diocesan Museum’s garden and exhibition spaces will be the scene of bold contrasts and surprising encounters this summer. From fragile glass bubbles clinging to rough alabaster surfaces to bronze figures radiating gentle delicacy – in the works of Susanne Roewer, the most diverse, seemingly incompatible materials come together to form a poetic unity. The exhibition Tangible delicate (8 July – 14 October 2023) in Rottenburg shows sculptures and installations by the Berlin sculptress that defy the rules of gravity and enchant the viewer with their grace and powerful fragility.
We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition with a poetry slam on Saturday, 8 July, 6 pm!
Poetry slam is performed stage literature. Different poets from all over Germany will meet in the garden of the museum and seminary. A firework of poetry and prose, sometimes performed loudly, sometimes quietly. And as always, the audience decides who wins the evening.
The evening will be moderated by Asli Kücük, Landestheater Tübingen, and Wehwalt Koslovski, poetry slam pioneer and world champion. Since 1994, Koslovski has performed over 2500 times on stages in Europe, the USA and Japan. He lives and works as a freelance stage poet, reciter, literary organiser, lecture traveller, speech & language coach and art teacher in Berlin.
Creation myths in motion
For all those who could not experience it or would like to experience it again – the performance “Telling of our beginnings. Creation myths in word, music and dance” with Felix Grützner (dance) , Patrick Bebelaar (piano) and Julia Hölzgen (spoken word artist) is now available on YouTube:
Joannes Baptista Sproll and his crosier
Joannes Baptista Sproll becomes Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg in 1927. In the first photos, he had himself photographed with the crosier of his predecessor Paul Wilhelm Keppler. Since it was customary in earlier times to take over the staff of one’s predecessor, it was long thought that Sproll did not have one of his own. But how could this be done during his time as auxiliary bishop? Did Bishop Keppler and Auxiliary Bishop Sproll agree at the weekend who could use the baton and when? Inconceivable, says diocesan archivist Dr Herbert Aderbauer and sets out to find out.
Ceremony at the Bishop Sproll memorial
"Is and remains a role model in faith"
With a ceremony on Tuesday evening, Bishop Dr Gebhard Fürst opened the memorial for Confessor Bishop Joannes Baptista Sproll.
With a ceremony on Tuesday evening, Bischof Dr. Gebhard Fürst opened a memorial for his predecessor in office, Johannes Baptista Sproll, who was the only bishop in Germany to be banned from his diocese by the National Socialists. The interest in the new memorial in the Episcopal Ordinariate was so great that the chairs provided in the foyer were not enough to seat everyone.
Bishop Sproll and his faith-based resistance to the Nazi dictatorship must not be forgotten, Fürst emphasised in his welcoming speech. In the presence of the former Minister President of Baden-Württemberg, Erwin Teufel, he recalled that in 2006, during a joint visit to the memorial for the witnesses of faith of the 20th century in Rome, one of the stones was laid. In 2006, during a joint visit to the memorial for the witnesses of the 20th century in Rome, one of the stones with which the Nazis had broken the windows of Bishop Sproll’s study in the former episcopal palace in 1938 was laid down.
Remembrance needs a place
“Remembrance needs a place, especially in Rottenburg, at the bishop’s seat. That is why the establishment of this memorial right here is very close to my heart and I am very pleased that we now have an outstanding memorial here,” Bishop Fürst stated in his address and recalled that beatification proceedings for Bishop Sproll were opened in 2011, which “hopefully will be decided positively”.
The exhibition designed by Dr Melanie Prange, director of the Diözesanmuseum, and Dr Herbert Aderbauer from the Diözesanarchiv, with the assistance of the Stuttgart office “von Jacobs. Ausstellungsgestaltung – Innenarchitektur”, invites visitors to an introduction to the work of Bishop Sproll through seven chronologically arranged thematic areas with texts, pictures and objects. In addition, the exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about Bishop Sproll through a multimedia presentation and guided tours.
Orientation and role model
“The memorial is designed for a large public: Groups can and should also come. Especially for school classes, a visit would be relevant for history and religion classes on the topic of Christian faith and resistance,” the Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart emphasised, referring to Sproll’s attitude to topics such as racism and nationalism, which also provides orientation and a role model for the coming generation, as well as Sproll’s commitment to peace. It was of particular importance that Bishop Sproll did everything “entirely out of his Christian faith”, Bishop Fürst emphasised. “He is and remains a role model in faith.”
Besides Cardinal Count von Galen, Sproll was the only bishop who publicly and resolutely stood in the way of the National Socialists – and did so earlier than von Galen, Fürst emphasised, recalling that Sproll had been revered for decades by the population of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart as a confessor bishop who resisted National Socialist ideology.
Outside the diocese, however, Bishop Sproll is unfortunately still too little known. “We must therefore continue to make it our task to make his attitude and his deeds generally known: The memorial is intended to contribute to this,” Bishop Fürst said, pointing out that against this background the memorial takes into account the need for remembrance, recollection and also for bringing him into the present.
A special room
Vicar General Dr. Clemens Stroppel summed it up in his invitation to visit the memorial site after the official part of the opening ceremony, which was musically accompanied by a clarinet quintet of the Rottenburg town band: The memorial site is located at the place where Bishop Sproll was taken away by the National Socialists, to which he returned after the end of the Nazi regime and the time of his exile, and at the place where he was laid out after his death before being buried in the bishop’s crypt of the Sülchenkirche.
The new memorial has thus been created on a historical site in the entrance area of the former episcopal palace. “It is the entrance hall to the bishop’s former home and thus the inside of the large wooden portal that the Nazis smashed in 1938 when they stormed the house to force Bishop Sproll to leave his diocese,” Dr Herbert Aderbauer recalled.
Dr Dominik Burkard, professor at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and chairman of the History Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, went into detail in his lecture entitled “Rottenburg – Rome – Berlin. The ‘Sproll Case’ in the Focus of Diplomacy” at the opening ceremony, he explored the question of what was done on the part of the Vatican to come to Sproll’s aid. “Did they do anything at all or did they leave the bishop of Rottenburg ‘out in the cold’?” asked Burkard.
Note
The memorial is a branch of the Diocesan Museum in Rottenburg, where further information can be obtained by calling +49 7472 / 922180 and -82 or by emailing museum-sprollgedenkort@bo.drs.de.
