As a politician, he built the house of Europe. As a cultural man, Helmut Kohl was also, he changed the face of Germany. A Review.
The Designer Jens Henning drew Kohl, in 1998, in Andy Warhol-style
Time, he was underestimated as a “bulb”, time critic of him, “provincialism in front stopped”. At the beginning of his chancellorship ergo, mockery and Häme shooting over Helmut Kohl. 16 years later, at the end of the term (1982 – 1998), a columnist of the süddeutsche Zeitung ran the headline: “Its cultural sovereignty, the Chancellor”, it sounded like a mixture of irony and Respect: at Least Kohl and his government had written to the culture of the rule of law in Germany to take note of and culture, Federal expenditure tripled!
Cabbage Palatinate and historian. What he learned in the study of culture and history are inseparable – influenced political Action. “For him, culture is the sum of a meaning – and value-oriented way of life and interpretation of life of a people, including its history and its habitat,” concluded the political scientist and erstwhile Kale consultants Wolfgang mountain village, in a paper for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. “Kohl’s concept of culture also gets the dimensions of orientation and self-assessment”.
Offended by the mockery of the Intellectual
The Federal art hall in Bonn was built on the initiative of Helmut Kohl’s:
As a “past is determined and the tradition rooted” characterizes the journalist and political scientist Norbert Seitz, the company’s image, Helmut Kohl. “Kohl’s picture of culture was very simple, but at least he was willing to talk.” With his Museum politics, he did set characters, and the cultural landscape of Germany changed. And: “Kohl’s cultural policy had to do thank God, nothing to do with what he called the ‘Spiritual-moral turn'”. The mockery of Intellectuals deeply disturbed him. “Beaten back, he has the pound, the German unit in the Luggage,” said Seitz, who has written a remarkable book about the “difficult relationship” of the German Chancellor to the arts. Helmut Kohl, for the difficult relationship of the spirit and of Power.
As Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (1969-1976) drew Kohl, the cultural and political competences, which according to the basic law for the Federal States. “Kohl’s Aegis the dwarf were established abolished school, the denominational schools is reduced, new universities”, the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation on your website. In 2004, the CDU held close to the Foundation’s conversation series, in order to explore the political aftermath of the “Era Kohl”. Kohl’s government expanded the promotion of Artists and used Slevogt, the heritage of the artist, Max and author Carl Zuckmeyer. Both of them came from the Region. Cabbage personally, Marc Chagall to design the stained glass window of St. Stephan in Mainz. But also by the decline of endangered artists Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen owes cabbage to his rescue. The hambach castle, finally, the Symbol of the German democracy movement was restored on the initiative of Kohl’s.
Builders of the Nation
Helmut Kohl owes his salvation: the artist Bahnhof Rolandseck in Bonn
Hardly in the Chancellery, Kohl new stakes for culture: He explained the construction of an art – and exhibition hall in Bonn, the programme for government. He announced the establishment of the German Historical Museum (DHM) in Berlin. A house of history to be built in Bonn. All three houses are built, to think none of the German Museum landscape way. He wanted to enforce the “no government official Aesthetics or history,” said Kohl. Today, no one believes that anyway.
“Kohl recognized the need for a separate cultural and political role of the Federal government – as the first Chancellor,” says the historian and cultural Manager Christoph Stölzl. In fact, the cultural budget of the Federal government rose from 346 million DM in 1982 to 1.3 billion in 1997. Kohl organized funds for start-UPS and at the same time, for the whole-of-government cultural tasks. The research of the Leo Baeck Institute for the history of German-speaking Jewry, as well as the reappraisal of the recent history of Germany in the “memorial, Wannsee Villa”, the “topography of terror”, “allied Museum” and the “German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst included”. “Helmut Kohl has never pulled back behind Federal jurisdiction formulas”, stresses Stölzl, “what would be de jure have been possible!”
Collapse in the East prevented
The new Federal Chancellery in Berlin at the time as Kohloneum and Kanzlerklo ridiculed.
As the “Chancellor of unity” Kohl was at pains to prevent the abrupt collapse of the cultural institutions in the new länder – which was achieved. So posture program, an infrastructure program and a heritage protection special programme have been allocated in the framework of a Substance between 1991 and 1993 to around 1.5 billion Euro. The “transition funding culture” maintained an orchestra, Theater, museums from closure. It was the basis for the salvation of countless historic buildings. For the reconstruction of the Frauenkirche in Dresden cabbage made in person. The Berlin memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe owes cabbage as his conceptual breakthrough, such as the construction of the new Chancellery in the Berlin Spreebogen. The vernacular was by Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank-designed building soon, the name “Elefantenklo” or “Kohllosseum”.
Actually, the German Historical Museum (DHM) should be erected at the Berlin wall, there, where today the Federal Chancellery. But then the wall fell. The DHM under its General Director Christoph Stölzl moved in the Zeughaus unter den Linden, burst but quickly at the seams. So was Helmut Kohl’s mediation, without a public tender and without competition, the Chinese-American Star architect I. M. Pei for the design of the extension building is involved.
The Pieta as a “cabbage-joke”
The painter Albrecht Gehse in front of his Chancellor portrait of Helmut Kohl
It is a Coup, the cabbage was earning recognition as a criticism – as well as Kohl’s commitment to the Neue Wache in Berlin. A long time had been arguing over the design of the Central memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany. At the behest of the Chancellor, it is a touching, barely thirty centimeters high sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz was enlarged to a man-high bronze sculpture. This now sits since November 1993, in the Schinkel building unter den Linden – as “the cabbage joke”, the critics all scoffed at the time. With the veiling of the Reichstag in the summer of 1995, Helmut Kohl, didn’t get on at all: He considered the action of the artist Christo is simply “one of the larger Foolishness, we provide German to us”.
The Chancellery in Berlin, also a portrait of Helmut Kohl hangs for a long time. Painted by the German artist Albrecht Gehse, Bernhard heisig has it. Cabbage has paid for it self. The picture shows Ex-Museum man Christoph Stölzl was once, the “head of a craftsman that is at the same time, an Intellectual.”