Mourning for the writer Brigitte Roßbeck - she is to receive the Iffeldorfer Kulturpreis posthumously
Created: 07/01/2023 18:02
By: Wolfgang Schorner
Brigitte Roßbeck, here in 2016 at the presentation of the chronicle of the Deichstetterhaus.
Chronicles about the church and chapel © Archiv/wos
The Iffeldorf historian and writer Brigitte Roßbeck is dead. The 78-year-old died the day before New Year's Eve after a long, serious illness.
Brigitte Roßbeck was known for her biographies about women.
Iffeldof - In her books, Brigitte Roßbeck devoted herself primarily to women who were usually only perceived in public as companions of their famous husbands, for example Maria Marc, Katia Mann and Elly Heuss-Knapp, the wife of the first Federal President Theodor Heuss.
In an interview with the local newspaper, she once said: "These are women who you almost have to pull out from behind their husbands.
You have to reread the sources, look for a different approach to them, that's what's exciting".
The historian was also considered a profound connoisseur of Franz Marc, about whom she also wrote a biography in 2015.
Her adopted home of Iffeldorf was always close to her heart - she received the Culture Prize posthumously
Her adopted home of Iffeldorf was always close to her heart, and she studied its history intensively.
She was also involved in the Iffeldorf master concerts and campaigned for nature.
The municipality wanted to present her with the culture award this year for her highly regarded work as a historian, journalist and writer and for her varied cultural work in Iffeldorf.
The council made the decision in December.
Now she is to be awarded the culture prize posthumously.
Brigitte Roßbeck moved to the Osterseen more than 30 years ago
Brigitte Roßbeck, who leaves behind her husband and a son, was born in Zeulenroda in Thuringia in 1944.
She grew up in the Ruhr area and in Cologne, studied history and geography and moved to the Osterseen more than 30 years ago.
Roßbeck, a reserved, modest and at the same time generous woman, had been closely associated with Iffeldorf ever since.
Since 1989 she has offered guided tours of the parish church of St. Vitus and the Heuwinkl chapel.
In an interview with the parish newspaper, when asked what sparked her interest in it, she said: It was "the curiosity, even the desire of a new citizen and journalist ... to explore the adopted home in all its facets and to get to know it in this way to learn".
Author wrote chronicles of the church, chapel and Deichstetterhaus
In 2001 she wrote a chronicle for the 300th anniversary of the Heuwinklkapelle.
A detailed work followed in 2008 on the 300th anniversary of the St. Vitus Church, for which she combed through archives and listened to the stories of older Iffeldorfers.
The historians also curated an exhibition on the parish church in what was then the "schön+ bissig" gallery.
At that time, the “Holy Grave”, an Art Nouveau painting more than 100 years old, was rediscovered in the attic of the old rectory, a rarity that Roßbeck also took on from 2008 on guided tours for Holy Week.
Not to be forgotten is her chronicle of the Deichstetterhaus, which the municipality converted into the new town hall with a community hall.
Roßbeck wrote a detailed booklet from the prehistory to the conversion.
At that time, the historian noticed large old canvases in the house.
She immediately suspected their art-historical value.
They were background images for Christmas cribs – the municipality loaned them to the Bavarian National Museum.
In an interview with the local newspaper, she once said about Iffeldorf: "What I find quite remarkable here is the good, comprehensive cooperation between people who want to get involved - and immigrants are also allowed to get involved.
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