Forum Thomanum
{{Short description|German music educational campus}}
{{Infobox university
|name = Forum Thomanum
|motto = glauben singen lernen
|motto_lang = de
|mottoeng = believing singing learning
|image_name = Sebastian Bach Strasse 3.jpg
|image_upright =
|caption = Villa Thomana, part of the campus
|logo =
|established = {{start date and age|2002}}
|founders = Georg Christoph Biller a.o.
|type = {{plainlist|
- Municipal music educational campus around
- Thomaskirche
- Thomanerchor
- Thomasschule
}}
|president =
|vice-president =
|faculty =
|students = 1,200
|city = Leipzig
|state = Saxony
|country = Germany
|coor = {{Coord|51|20|13|N|12|21|41|E|display=it}}
|website = {{URL|http://www.forum-thomanum.de/}}
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The Forum Thomanum (styled forum thomanum) is a music educational campus developed from 2002 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, as the new home of the Thomanerchor which was founded in 1212. It was conceived in 2002 by Georg Christoph Biller, then Thomaskantor, and others, to provide an internationally oriented innovative campus for a future of the traditional choir which was defined until then by Thomaskirche and Thomasschule.
The campus was inaugurated in 2012, where up to 1,200 boys and young men are given cultural education based on a religious foundation, social competence and democratic standing.
History
File:Schneider Thomanerchor.jpg at a reading at the Thomaskirche in 2008]]
In 2002, Georg Christoph Biller, then Thomaskantor, and others conceived the plan to broaden the education of the Thomanerchor which was founded in 1212 and conducted by Johann Sebastian Bach from 1723. The boys were until then educated at the Thomasschule with boarding facility, to perform mainly in the Thomaskirche. Besides Biller, Stefan Altner, Roland Weise and {{ill|Christian Wolff (theologian)|de|Christian Wolff (Pfarrer)|lt=Christian Wolff}} were instrumental in planning Forum Thomanum as a campus for music education ({{Lang|de|musischer Bildungscampus}}), an internationally oriented institution to care for the future of the traditional choir investing in education. Historic buildings were to be modernised and expanded, and new buildings added. An association to promote the project was founded in 2002. Members included Biller, {{ill|Klaus Lindner|de}}, Burkhard Jung (then mayor of Leipzig) and {{ill|Christoph Michael Haufe|de}}.
From the 2000s, the project was realised in steps. In 2003, the Leipzig architectural firm Weis & Volkmann was included in the planning. The first by-law was drawn by the jurist Frieder Schäuble, and a concept for new institutions was presented, for a bilingual day care centre, a primary school and a middle school, a music academy, and the {{ill|Lutherkirche, Leipzig|de|Lutherkirche (Leipzig)|lt=Lutherkirche}} as a building with several functions. They were to be connected to the existing {{ill|Thomasalumnat|de}} and sports facilities. A project of the city of Leipzig, it has been recognised as innovative and unique in Germany. The city estimated the total investment as Euro 30 million.
The campus was inaugurated in 2012, for the 800th anniversary of the Thomanerchor. Its motto is "{{Lang|de|glauben singen lernen}}" (believing singing learning). Up to 1,200 boys and young men are taught with the goal to raise culturally educated young people with a religious foundation, social competence and democratic standing ("{{Lang|de|mehr kulturell gebildete, religiös gebundene, sozial kompetente, demokratisch gesinnte Menschen}}") for a better society.
The idea of a campus became a model for similar projects of city development ({{Lang|de|Stadtentwicklung}}) in Bremen and Nürnberg which were supported by the Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Bau und Stadtentwicklung from 2007 to 2015.Stadt Leipzig, Der Bürgermeister (ed.): koopstadt – Stadtentwicklung Bremen, Leipzig, Nürnberg: Konzeptstudie, Leipzig 2009, pp. 29, 34
In 2012, the Thomanerchor was awarded a special prize of the Echo Klassik for its international education campus.News, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, Bd. 67, No. 5 (2012), pp. 117.
Campus
- Day care center
- Elementary school and after-school care
- Middle school
- St. Thomas School
- {{ill|Thomasalumnat|de}}, boarding school
- Villa thomana
- Academia
- {{ill|Lutherkirche, Leipzig|de|Lutherkirche (Leipzig)}} at the edge of Johannapark
The former church grounds of the Anglican All Saints' Church destroyed in World War II are integrated into the educational campus.[https://www.forum-thomanum.de/campus/grundschule-hort Grundschule und Hort], retrieved 13 March 2023.
References
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{{cite news |last=Bartetzky |first=Arnold|author-link = Arnold Bartetzky |title=Raus aus dem alten Kasten |newspaper=FAZ |date=14 May 2009 |number=111 |page=31}}
{{cite journal |last1=Biller |first1=Georg Christoph|author1-link = Georg Christoph Biller |last2=Rothlisberger |first2=Rod |title=In the Footsteps of Bach: an Interview with Georg Christoph Biller |journal=The Choral Journal |volume=54 |number=1 |date=August 2013 |pages=40–43}}
{{cite news |last=Finger |first=Evelyn |title=Thomaner gibt es nur einmal |newspaper=Die Zeit |date=8 November 2012 |number=46 |page=66 |language=de}}
{{cite news |last=Glatthaar |first=Louisa Esther |title=Lutherkirchen-Restaurierung läuft |newspaper=Leipziger Volkszeitung |date=26 August 2015 |page=18 |language=de}}
{{cite web |title=Grundschule forum thomanum |website=Leipziger Volkszeitung |date=30 January 2019 |url=https://www.lvz.de/Mehr/Schlingel-Familie/Tipps-Themen/Grundschulen-in-Leipzig/Grundschule-forum-thomanum |language=de |access-date=3 February 2022}}
{{cite news |last=Orbeck |first=Mathias Orbeck |title=Richtfest beim Forum Thomanum |newspaper=Leipziger Volkszeitung |date=13 August 2016 |page=19 |language=de}}
{{cite news |last=Rey |first=Lucienne |url=http://www.nzz.ch/gesang-als-lebensschule-1.640064 |title=Gesang als Lebensschule |newspaper=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |date=24 December 2007 |language=de |access-date = 17 December 2016}}
{{cite journal |last=Steinitz |first=Margaret |title=Forum Thomanum |journal=Bach Notes |publisher=London Bach Society |date=March 2007 |page=6}}
{{ill|Christian Wolff (theologian)|de|Christian Wolff (Pfarrer)|lt=Christian Wolff}}: forum thomanum – ein Bildungscampus für die Musikstadt Leipzig. in Stefan Altner/Martin Petzoldt (ed.): 800 Jahre Thomana, Festschrift zum Jubiläum von Thomaskirche, Thomanerchor und Thomasschule., with the University of Leipzig (faculty of music history (Helmut Loos) and the Museum of Musical Instruments of Leipzig University ({{ill|Eszter Fontana|de}}), Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2012 pp. 400–409, {{ISBN|978-3-89923-238-7}}.
{{cite book |title=Wirtschaftsbericht 2015 |url=https://static.leipzig.de/fileadmin/mediendatenbank/leipzig-de/Stadt/02.8_Dez8_Wirtschaft_Arbeit_Digitales/80_Amt_fuer_Wirtschaftsfoerderung/1_Unternehmensservice/wibericht2015-de.pdf |publisher=Leipzig Dezernat Wirtschaft und Arbeit, Amt für Wirtschaftsförderung |date=March 2015 |page=101}}
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Further reading
- {{cite web |title=Wechsel im Vorstand forum thomanum Leipzig e.V. |website=Nachrichten aus Leipzig – Leipziger Zeitung |date=25 November 2016 |url=https://www.l-iz.de/melder/wortmelder/2016/11/wechsel-im-vorstand-forum-thomanum-leipzig-e-v-159705 |access-date=3 February 2022}}
External links
{{Commons category}}
- {{official website|http://www.forum-thomanum.de/}}
- {{ill|Alexandra Gerlach|de}}: [http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/musische-erziehung-in-herrschaftlichem-ambiente.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=167969 Musische Erziehung in herrschaftlichem Ambiente, Campus "Forum Thomanum" in Leipzig] {{in lang|de}} Deutschlandradio, 26 May 2008