Johannes-Gillhoff-Stuv Glaisin

About the museum

The Gillhoff-Stuv was set up in 1992 by the municipality in a classroom of the village school built in 1866. The writer Johannes Gillhoff spent his childhood and youth in this house; his father taught here as a schoolteacher. One year after the opening, the Johannes Gillhoff Society was founded, which still runs the museum today. The core collection came from a traveling exhibition for the poet's 125th birthday in 1986.

In the winter half-year of 2009/10, the exhibition was comprehensively renewed with EU funding via the town of Ludwigslust: the floor was restored, new lighting and seven additional display cases were installed, and Gillhoff's desk was refinished. On January 16, 2010, his 80th death anniversary, the Stuv reopened.

On display are picture documents, letters, manuscripts, collected works, and personal belongings, including a walking stick, a cigar case, a letter scale, and the desk from 1896. A second focus documents emigration: during the father's time as a teacher, around 350 people left Glaisin for North America in the late 19th century, and Gillhoff's best-known novel, about the emigrant to America Jürnjakob Swehn, also deals with this.

Highlights

• Life and work of the writer Johannes Gillhoff
• Desk from 1896 and personal belongings
• Documentation of emigration to North America
• Museum in the historic village school of 1866

Permanent exhibition

• Gillhoff-Stuv – Permanent exhibition on the life, work and influence of Johannes Gillhoff, with documentation on emigration from Glaisin to North America.

Founded

1992

Operated by

Johannes Gillhoff Gesellschaft e.V.

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The museum is located in the former school building at Lindenstraße 6.

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