Wanted: Supervisors Exhibition "Vulnerable"
The Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg, in cooperation with “St. Maria as…”, is organising an exhibition in the church of St. Maria, Stuttgart-Mitte, Tübinger Str. 36, following the Katholikentag. The works of the winners of the art competition “Vulnerable. Vulnerable” will be shown. For the exhibition period from
21 May to 24 July 2022
the museum is looking for several supervisors (m/f/d), preferably also students, to supervise the exhibition. The tasks include
Presence in the church room of St. Maria
welcoming visitors to the exhibition and handing out visitor booklets
Selling catalogues
Supervising the technical equipment (lighting, video installations)
To be covered by all supervisors are the periods:
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm.
A contract for freelance work will be concluded. The hourly rate is 12 €. Please contact us for more information. If you are interested, also in working on certain days or half days, send an email with a short letter of motivation and a CV by 20.12.2022 to:
Dr. Daniela Blum
dblum@bo.drs.de
07472 922 305
Exhibition "adoratio - The Black King at the Crib"
The Magi – the theme is omnipresent in Christian art, in popular nativity scenes and in the tradition of the carol singers. The “Adoration of the Magi” is one of the most popular pictorial themes in Christian art. The Bible speaks of astrologers from the East, so they have been depicted as wise men with Phrygian caps since the 4th century. From apocryphal writings, the interpretations of the Church Fathers and numerous legends, the idea developed that kings in all three ages were gathered in the Bethlehem stable. Since the late 10th century, there have been depictions of a mostly kneeling old man, a middle-aged man and a young man. Since the late Middle Ages, the latter has been painted with black skin, especially in German-speaking countries. The kings wear splendid courtly clothes and bring valuable gifts, of which the Bible already tells. The Diocesan Museum has several panels in its collection that show this pictorial tradition.
Today, however, the pictorial theme has become problematic. In the course of modern art history, the black king was often exoticised and became a projection surface for the foreign.
In this exhibition, the Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg explores the theme of the “Adoration of the Magi” on the basis of its own panels and also shows a modern interpretation by Otto Dix. The accompanying programme searches for historical interpretations and contemporary dialogue partners. The aim is to bring together the different perspectives and to bring them into conversation with each other.
Invitation to the Lecture "The Magi and the Order of the World in the Middle Ages"
The Wise Men from the East are an integral part of the Christmas story – over the centuries, the number of three was agreed upon and they were elevated to the status of ‘kings’. As such, they served, among other things, as symbolic figures for the world of the Middle Ages, which was divided into three continents, and as representatives of different human ages and regions of origin.
The lecture will shed light on the medieval legends surrounding the ‘three kings’ and explain what significance they had for medieval society.
Speaker: PD. Dr. Christoph Mauntel Tübingen
We ask for pre-registration, here on the homepage or by mail (museum@bo.drs.de).
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Holiday programme for children
As part of the holiday programme of the city of Rottenburg, we were finally able to inaugurate our art alley on the first Saturday of the holiday! Christine Bozler-Kießling went on a quest with the children to find out how pictures were created in the Middle Ages. Then the children created their own canvas frames and painted a picture using ancient techniques.
Chapel Talks
Eckhard Raabe’s chapel talk with Dr Melanie Prange is about the many new online offerings of the Diocesan Museum that were created during the Corona period, as well as the current exhibitions that are now accessible again.
The importance of sacred art in general also comes up – especially with regard to the question of how contemporary art can be integrated into historic church spaces.
Photo: Sara Opic, “The Listener”, figure made of clay and straw, installation on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the church of St. Martin in Leutkirch im Allgäu in 2019, (Photos: Heiko Grandel, Augsburg) / http://www.saraopic.com/.
Treasures on the doorstep - how Christianity came to the Southwest
The Sülchenkirche is unique in southern Germany, firstly because it has served as a burial site since the 6th century, and secondly because very early evidence of Christian faith has been found here. In the next programme of “Alpha & Omega – Kirche im Gespräch”, Gabriele Graenert, expert on the Early Middle Ages from the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Regional Council of Stuttgart, and Melanie Prange, Director of the Rottenburg Diocesan Museum, talk about the finds and the current Sülchen special exhibition “In our Earth” in Rottenburg.
Moderation/Editorial: Caroline Haro-Gnändinger
"Ante saecula" - Liturgical music from the early Middle Ages
On the occasion of the finissage of the exhibition “In our Soil. Grave finds of the Early Middle Ages in the Southwest“, the Schola Cantorum at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Tübingen, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Stefan Morent, will present a short programme in a livestream, which was originally intended as a musical accompaniment to the opening of the exhibition.
Although no direct written musical tradition has survived from the time of the excavation finds from the early Middle Ages, the process of incipient Christianisation quickly led to the establishment of religious centres in the German southwest as well, such as the island monastery of Reichenau in Lake Constance or the monastery of St. Gall. These monasteries also provided some of the earliest musical sources for liturgical chant, the so-called Gregorian chant, which shaped and structured both the celebration of Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours.
The contact surfaces between pagan traditions and Christianisation are reflected in the “Song of George”, which in Old High German shows the model of the heroic epic, but reworks it in Christian terms. It probably did not originate on the Reichenau, but corresponds with the veneration of the saint there.
Finally, the Christmas sequence by Notker Balbulus, the “Stammler”, who worked there as an eloquent poet-musician in the later 9th century, leads to St. Gall.
Artists
Schola Cantorum
at the Musicological Institute of the University of Tübingen
Conductor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Morent
Singers: Michael Braunger, Alexander Goossenns, Stefan Morent, Samuel Schick, Tilo Schmid-Sehl, Janis Tortora
Programme
- Introitus Statuit ei dominus
- Kyrie in summis
- Georgslied
- Alleluia Dies sanctificatus
- Notker Balbulus (840–912): Sequence Natus ante saecula
(all transcriptions and arrangements from the medieval manuscripts by Stefan Morent).
Registration is not required.
You can watch a recording of the online finissage here directly on our site or on the Youtube channel of the diocesan museum Rottenburg.
Finissage | »To Know A Form, You Have To Work It«
Artist: Frederick D. Bunsen
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker, Chair of Cultural Theory and Management, Witten/Herdecke University.
You can watch a recording of the online finissage here directly on our site or on the Youtube channel of the Diocesan Museum Rottenburg.
Digital Reichenau Artists' Days
The upheavals in the Church are not only changing pastoral work on a broad scale. These changes are accompanied by the fact that liturgical places are increasingly being abandoned and sacred furnishings are ‘suddenly’ on the doorstep of diocesan depots. It is true that the past has also repeatedly led to parishes ‘having something to give away’. However, the potential abundance of expected “donations” now increasingly confronts dioceses with the question of what is preserved, what criteria are followed for storage and collection, and how to communicate what happens to the objects that cannot be deposited. Those responsible in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart are facing up to this discussion. They are doing it together with the Art Association of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Society of Christian Artists Freiburg, as both are concerned about the understanding of old and modern art as well as contemporary art in the church space with its possibilities. The Tübingen Chair of Liturgy Prof. Dr. Stefan Winter, art commissioners from other dioceses and artists who are currently contributing through their actions to ensuring that art remains in church spaces and that these spaces are strengthened as a result will provide impulses on the subject. Invited to perceive and discuss are the members of the two associations as well as, in particular, interested parties from the parishes who are touched by the topic or see themselves confronted with it. In order to ensure that the meeting will take place even if the incidence should rise again, it will be held digitally. This format also allows for broader participation.
Thursday, 14.10.2021 (19:30 to 21:00)
Evening lecture
From 19:00 Login
19:30 Welcome
Martin R. Handschuh
19:45 In Change(s). How church furnishings must change, because liturgy is encounter
Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter
20:30 Reflection and discussion
21:00 End
Friday, 15.10.2021 (9:00 to 12:30)
Section 1:
Stored and collected : Characteristics and tasks of diocesan repositories
from 8:30 Login
9:00 Welcome
Martin R. Handschuh
9:10 Impulse
Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Gerhard Schneider
9:20 Short film: The Diocesan Depot in Obermarchtal – an insight
9:30 iconoclasm – liturgical atrophy – profanations on the horizon. The origins of the depot in Obermarchtal
Dr. Thomas Schwieren
Consecrated. Preserved. Forgotten? Tasks, concepts and opportunities of the diocesan depot in the 21st century
Dr. Melanie Prange
10:15 Break
10:30 From Light Candles to Lüpertz
Dr. Maria Baumann
11:00 What do we want to preserve. Between need and tradition
Dr. Anna Pawlik
11:30 Discussion
12:30 Lunch break
Friday, 15.10.2021 (14:00 to 16:30)
Section 2:
Dealing with art today, so that art remains and (church) spaces are strengthened
14:00 Permanently ephemeral.
Media art for the sacred space
Karen Irmer
14:30 Participation and dialogue
The Listener and Other Projects
Sara Opic
15:00 Break
15:15 Staging and Digital Space
Philipp Contag-Lada
15:45 Discussion
16:15 Outlook, thanks, notes and farewells
16:30 End of the conference
Registration via
Archdiocese of Freiburg
Educational Centre Singen
Zelglestr. 4
78224 Singen
07731 982590
info@bildungszentrum-singen.de
https://bildungszentrum-singen.de/
Organisational matters
To participate in the digital annual conference “Reichenauer Künstlertage” 2021, you will need internet access, preferably via a PC or laptop, built-in or external camera and microphone or headset. Experience has shown that participation is most stable with a LAN connection; for WLAN connection, please also ensure a good data connection.
After your registration, you will receive the access links and codes in the week of the conference to the email address with which you registered.
Participation fee
For the participation in the conference we ask the participants to pay the amount of 35,00 €; this will be collected by the Bildungszentrum Singen.
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Foundation Wegzeichen („Signposts“) offers prize
The Foundation Wegzeichen–Lebenszeichen–Glaubenszeichen („Signposts–Signs of life–Signs of faith“) is offering the Foundation Award 2021 for outstanding activities for the preservation, construction or documentation of Christian signs of the way in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.
Prize-worthy activities are, for example:
- Activities to safeguard and preserve a small religious monument
- Restoration and renovation work
- Documentation of small religious monuments on site or in the region
- Questioning the owners of small religious monuments about the history of a small monument, the motivation of the builders, etc.
- Films/videos/sound documents on the subject
- New construction of a small religious monument
The commitment of young people to religious waymarks is rewarded with a special prize. They are called upon, for example, to look into the wayside signs in their locality or to think about erecting a new religious sign.
Individuals, groups or associations can apply for the prize, but not church or political communities or official institutions. The project proposed for the award must have been completed at the time of application (but no longer than 2 years!) and be located on the territory of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart. Unfortunately, projects that have already received a funding grant from the Wegzeichen Foundation cannot be considered for an application for the Foundation Award.
You can find detailed information here.