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Jahn-Report Nr. 59 erschienen

jahn-buero — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:01:17 +0000

The new "Jahn Report" is here

The new "Jahn-Report" is here: The new issue was published at the beginning of the year, the 59th edition since July 1994. The brochure is an impressive 64 pages long. The first part deals once again with the 100th Jahn gymnastics festival, which took place in Freyburg an der Unstrut in mid-August: reviews from different perspectives illustrate the pleasingly diverse range of events. The new brochure focuses on: the future of the Jahn memorial in Hasenheide, the development of the gymnastics movement in southwest Germany (Gustav von Struve's work), the symposium in Hanau in autumn 2024 (175 years of the DTB) and an appreciation of the fact that sports science has existed in Halle for 100 years.

Information: Email: info@jahn-museum.de or tel. 034464/27426.

Hansgeorg Kling

ACHTUNG! Geänderte Öffnungszeiten

jahn-buero — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:44:09 +0000

From April 1, 2024 until further notice, the Jahn Museum will change its opening hours.

The museum is open from Wednesday to Saturday from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. Guided tours are also possible on other days by prior arrangement.

We ask for your understanding.

Stephanie Kaps zur kommissarischen Geschäftsführerin der Jahn-Gesellschaft berufen

jahn-buero — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 09:16:42 +0000

The Executive Committee of the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e.V. has appointed Stephanie Kaps (Großjena) as acting Managing Director with effect from November 10, 2023. Ms. Kaps has worked as assistant to the management at the Jahn Museum in recent years and was able to gain experience during this time, which will now benefit her as acting managing director. The appointment of Ms. Kaps became necessary because Dr. Kuhn resigned from her position as Managing Director of the Jahn Society and Director of the Jahn Museum on 1 October 2023. Until this position is filled, Ms. Kaps will manage the Jahn Society's office in Freyburg (Unstrut).

Symposium des Deutschen Turner-Bundes

jahn-buero — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:14:03 +0000

On 16 and 17 November 2023, the German Gymnastics Federation is organizing a symposium to mark the founding of the DTB 175 years ago in Hanau.

All further information on the event can be found in the flyer here.

Jahns Patensohn Meffert

jahn-buero — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 12:23:11 +0000

Lecture with musical accompaniment

As part of this year's Jahnturnfest, the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e.V., in cooperation with the Freyburg parish office as well as the Berlin church music director and organist of the Marienkirche in Berlin, Kilian Nauhaus, and the world-renowned gambist and Echo-Klassik prize winner, Thomas Fritzsch, will host a musical lecture evening entitled:

"He did right and spared no one" -Jahn's godson Franz Ludwig Meffert and his family.

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn's friends from his Kolberg days in the early 1820s included the master craftsman Ferdinand Meffert and his wife Emilie. In 1835, Jahn became godfather to their second child, son Franz Ludwig. Jahn's letters to the Meffert family, most of which have survived, are an important source for Jahn research today.

Franz Meffert became a teacher, worked as a high school principal in Breslau, was politically active, published several writings and died in Berlin in 1910. The Berlin church music director Kilian Nauhaus, a great-great-grandson of Franz Meffert, will tell about the family friendship between Mefferts and Jahns and draw a life picture of his ancestor Franz Meffert on the basis of letters and documents that are in the surviving family possession. The Freyburg gambist Thomas Fritzsch, cultural ambassador of the city of Köthen and special ambassador of the Burgenlandkreis, with whom Kilian Nauhaus has a long-standing musical collaboration, will provide the musical framework for the evening.

Franz Meffert's contemporaries had the following inscription placed on his grave in Jena, which is still preserved today: "He did right and spared no one". This is the motto of our evening, with which we want to commemorate this striking figure from Jahn's circle.

The event will take place on Friday, August 19, 2022, at 8:00 p.m.

Held in the Freyburg church of St. Mary.

Admission begins at 19:50.

Admission is free of charge.

Kilian Nauhaus

Gambist Thomas Fritzsch played his viola da gamba by Johann Casper Göbler, Breslau, 1784 on June 19, 2014 at the Bachmuseum Leipzig Thomaskirchhof next to the display case with the letter from 1787 and sheet music cover page in the display case.
Photo: Armin Kühne ( Kuehne )

Jahn-Report Nr.54 erschienen

jahn-buero — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:55:48 +0000

The new "Jahn Report" is here: Shortly before the start of the summer vacations, the new issue of the "Jahn Report" appeared, the 54th installment since July 1994. The brochure is a handsome 60 pages thick and again attractively designed. Under "News", the main topics are a review of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and the restoration of the banner of the German Gymnastics Association (DT), which is one of the treasures in the permanent exhibition of the Jahn Museum in Freyburg. Basic articles deal with the history of the Freyburg Jahn Gymnastics Festival, held annually in August, first in 1901; with the almost friendly closeness between the writer and jurist E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) and F. L. Jahn (1778-1852); and with the question of why mountaineering/mountain hiking/rock climbing is not part of gymnastics but is covered by its own association, the German Alpine Association (DAV). Among the reports are two on sports museums, one on new prospects for the Berlin Sports Museum, the other on the recently closed Sports Museum of Switzerland in Basel. A look back at 1947 reveals a piece of post-war history: The German Gymnastics Working Committee (DAT), founded exactly 75 years ago in Northeim, was the forerunner of the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB), which was founded in Tübingen in 1950. Five book reviews and the entertainingly readable "Notes" round off the richly illustrated brochure.

Information: Email: info@jahn-museum.de or tel. 034464/27426.

Hansgeorg Kling

Gesucht: Briefe von Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778-1852) für eine neue Gesamtausgabe der Jahnbriefe

jahn-buero — Wed, 25 May 2022 11:19:23 +0000

The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gesellschaft e.V. not only wants to provide reliable information about the initiator of the gymnastics movement, but also to contribute to a critical judgment about a German who has been controversial up to the present day. An important basis for the discussion of his life and work are his letters, which, after the first complete edition by Wolfgang Meyer in 1913, are now to be newly edited and published.

The majority of the surviving Jahn letters are now kept in the Privy State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin, the Central and State Library in Berlin, and the Freyburg Jahn Museum. However, many letters have come into private hands over the course of time, while others lie dormant in the archives of the gymnastics clubs. In the new edition of all Jahn letters, the Jahn Society would like to include these letters as far as possible and therefore asks all owners of original Jahn letters to provide a legible photocopy or a digital copy.

Please send the photocopy or the digital copy either to the

Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Museum

Castle road 11

06632 Freyburg (Unstrut)

Tel.: 034464 - 27426

Email: m.dietz@jahn-museum.de

or directly to the editor of the new letter edition

Dr. Josef Ulfkotte

Email: J.Ulfkotte@t-online.de

Jahn-Turnfest 2021 abgesagt!

jahn-buero — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:54:31 +0000

In May 2021 the Landesturnverband Sachsen-Anhalt Corona has cancelled this year's Jahnturnfest in Freyburg. The presidium of the Jahn-Gesellschaft has therefore decided to forego this year's general meeting as a presence event.