Alfons Spielhoff

Alfons Spielhoff ( born July 3, 1912 in Essen, † 9 December 1987) was Dortmund Cultural Affairs.

Nationally known he was one of the initiators of a new cultural policy in the Federal Republic in the 1970s. With its slogan " cultural policy is social policy ," he advocated a decentralized cultural work in the suburbs and socio-cultural scenes. His initiative to the task of the Philharmonic Orchestra and the remaking of the new, represäntativen opera house in Dortmund led to violent clashes and demonstrations.

Life

Alfons Spielhoff grew up in the youth movement, after 1933 he was in the Hitler Youth. He studied in Berlin International Studies, after graduating him the promotion was denied because of a two-time Gestapo prison. As a soldier, he was convicted in 1944 for undermining military strength and imprisoned in Toulon, but could desert. By the summer of 1945 he was a prisoner of war in France.

1950 Spielhoff received his doctorate on the subject of his dissertation, "The technology as a problem of cultural studies ". Since 1951, Spielhoff engaged in the SPD, the PRO and the German Peace Society (DFG). From 1958 to 1959 he was chairman of the Association of German peace organizations and 1962-1974 Cultural Affairs of the City of Dortmund.

New cultural policy

As a member of the Cultural Committee of the German Association of Cities and the tariff committee of the German Theatre Association is Spielhoff committed against the concentration of urban cultural budget on a few representative areas, especially the theater. Due to the steady increase in staff costs in this area he feared a blockade of all other cultural activities. As Dortmund Cultural Affairs why he joined in 1973 for a role of the philharmonic orchestra and a reorganization of the remaining portions of the Dortmund City Theatre a. Many of his ideas have been developed in this context until much later and elsewhere implemented, about his proposal to lead the theater according to commercial principles as a limited company, or his proposal to set up a commercial division in the field of popular music and the musical. Game Hoffs closure plans were rejected by the Council of the City of Dortmund 1974.

His commitment to the socio-cultural set Spielhoff well as nationally continued, including the Cultural Policy. In Dortmund continued the systematic promotion of free culture scene and the district cultural work is a first in the 80s.

Honors

In Dortmund, the " Alfons Spielhoff Square " is named after him, to which the free theater Fletch Bizzel is.

Publications

  • Rudolf Müller- Dostali, Alfons Spielhoff (Ed. ), Essen proposal for hosting the Social Democratic policy on a clear socialist- democratic objective, Food 1954
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Why we play Brecht? in Theater- Courier Dortmund, Issue 9 /63 Dortmund 1963
  • Alfons Spielhoff, own houses adult education from the perspective of the communities in: New Public Education, No. 2/64, 1964
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Considerations for Municipal Theatre Planning In: Loccumer protocols, Evangelische Akademie Loccum (ed.), Vol 5/1970
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Musical theater is too expensive to study the cultural administration Dortmund, in: The German Stage, Issue 10, October 1971, Vol 42 p.4
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Exposé I as a basis for discussion of the SPD parliamentary group of the Council of the City of Dortmund on the Financing of culture orchestra, musical theater and drama, Dortmund 1972
  • Alfons Spielhoff, City of Dortmund, Department of Culture, Exposé II on the Financing of culture orchestra, musical theater and drama, discussion basis for the SPD parliamentary group of the Council of the City of Dortmund, Dortmund 1973
  • Alfons Spielhoff, cultural policy at the turn of Dortmund talks, Issue 111/1973
  • Alfons Spielhoff, The Librarian in the Gutenberg galaxy or the cultural-political issue of a library director in: Service of books, in honor of Fritz Hüser 1973
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Why cost accounting, in: The German Stage, Issue 2, February 1974, Vol 45 pp. 8-10
  • Olaf Schwencke, Klaus Heinrich Revermann, Alfons Spielhoff, pleas for a new cultural policy, Munich ( Hanser ) 1974, ISBN 3-446-11769-5
  • Alfons Spielhoff, already Gründgens was in my opinion! Reply to Sabais, in: The German Stage, Issue 3, March 1974, Vol 45, p.7f
  • Alfons Spielhoff, possibilities and limits of cultural policy alternatives rethinking of cultural policy, Dortmund lectures Issue 116, Dortmund 1974
  • Alfons Spielhoff, Intergovernmental cultural work - a new role of cities, in: International courier, Issue 10/1974
  • Alfons Spielhoff, to reform the Dortmund Theatre (1974 ), excerpts in: Cultural Policy Notice No 61/62 II-III/93, pp. 69-70
  • Alfons Spielhoff, priorities Urban cultural policy, in: Schwencke, O.; Revermann, KH, Spielhoff, A. ( ed.), pleas for a new cultural policy, Munich 1974
  • Alfons Spielhoff, a plea for a business cost accounting of the theater, in: The German stage, Issue 3/1974
  • Alfons Spielhoff, cultural policy in the industrial society, in: Bieber, Hedwig; Kutscher, Siegfried; Wehefritz, Valentin ( Ed.), Public Library and Regional Bibliography, Festschrift for Hans Moritz Meyer, Publications Department d Dt. Library Association 1975
  • Alfons Spielhoff, strategies of alternative cultural policy, in: culture through communication, protocols Loccumer 1/1976, Rehburg -Loccum 1976, p 90-102?
  • Alfons Spielhoff, cultural policy is social policy, in: Transactions, vol 24, born 6/1976
  • Alfons Spielhoff, balance of alternative culture In: Political Culture releases, Supplement 1, 1980, pp. 12ff.
  • Alfons Spielhoff, culture for all - of them all? Interim assessment of alternative culture, Loccumer protocols 6/1980, Rehburg -Loccum 1980, p 35-37
  • Alfons Spielhoff, in the totally administered world of the theater is the future, in: theater magazine, Issue 5, Autumn 1983, Vol 2, pp. 53-54
  • Alfons Spielhoff, subsidies in the cultural sector, in: Culture Political messages, Issue 27, IV/1984, p.10, 1984
  • Alfons Spielhoff, savings in the theater budget of the cities, in: Culture Political messages, Issue 32, I/1986, pp. 22-24
  • Alfons Spielhoff, power to the opera houses? A reply, in: Culture Political messages, Issue 34, III/1986, pp. 11-13
  • Alfons Spielhoff, culture as an element of urban development, in: biblio, Issue 1/1973 in excerpts: Cultural Policy Notice No 61/62, I II/1993, pp. 7-9

Secondary literature

  • Mathias Bigge, cultural policies in the Ruhr. in: Rainer Bovermann, Stefan Goch, Heinz -Jürgen Priam (ed.), The Ruhr, A fine piece of North Rhine-Westphalia, policy in the region from 1946 to 1996, Essen 1996, ISBN 3-88474-524-7
  • Eckart Pankoke, The industrial district as a cultural landscape, to cultural dynamics of the Ruhr in 1945, in: Heinz Jürgen Priam, Ralf sky man (eds. ), City and Region - Region and City, Essen 1993, pp. 105-143
  • Olaf Schwencke (ed.), Cultural Policy (ed. ), Cultural policy is social policy, Festschrift for Alfons Spielhoff, Hagen 1982
  • Günter Strüder, new cultural policies in the Ruhr area, in: Mathias Bigge, Günter Strüder (ed.), New Cultural Politics in the Ruhr, Essen 1994, ISBN 3-89206-636-1
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