The ' (Protestant Academy of Tutzing) is an education and conference center in

Tutzing Tutzing is a municipality in the district of Starnberg in Bavaria, Germany, on the west bank of the Starnberger See. Just 40 km south-west of Munich and with good views of the Alps, the town was traditionally a favorite vacation spot for th ...

, Bavaria, run by the

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. It was founded in 1947. The main building is Schloss Tutzing on

Lake Starnberg Lake Starnberg, or ''Starnberger See'' ) — called Lake Würm, or ''Würmsee'' , until 1962 — is Germany's second-largest body of fresh water, having great depth, and fifth-largest lake by area. It and its surroundings lie in three different Ba ...

. The academy awards the

Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize The Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize (''Marie Luise Kaschnitz-Preis'') is a German literary prize, awarded approximately every two years by the Tutzing Protestant Academy Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. It recognizes the lifetime achievements of writers ...

for contemporary literature from 1984, and the prize for tolerance, which since 2000 has been given biennially to people who worked towards the coexistence of religions.

History

The ' was founded in 1947 in

, Bavaria, as '. It was first an academy for doctors. Gerhard Hildmann, a theologian, was the director from 1948 to 1967. The bishop, Hans Meiser, coordinated the acquisition of Schloss Tutzing in 1949. After World War II, politicians met at the academy to discuss the future of German democracy. They identified actions to be taken, which were later realized.

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spoke on 15 July 1963 about "change through rapprochement", which influenced the relationship of chancellor

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to the

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, resulting in the ''

Ostpolitik ''Neue Ostpolitik'' (German for "new eastern policy"), or ''Ostpolitik'' for short, was the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republ ...

''. Conferences at the academy initiated changes in politics, social sciences, religion, arts and culture. Topics have included the future of the

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the integration of its countries, and concepts for the

energy industry The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution. Modern society consumes large amounts of fuel, and the energy indu ...

Buildings and park

The

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

main building was built from 1693 to 1696. It was rebuilt by Thomas Ganseck from 1802 to 1816 for Count Friedrich Joseph von Vieregg. The additional ' was built in the 19th century. A separate hall was erected in 1802 as a '. It was made a ' ( palm house) in 1870, and remodeled in 1922 to a banquet hall with an Italian-style ceiling. The conference hall was built in 1959 by

Olaf Andreas Gulbransson Olaf Andreas Gulbransson (23 January 1916, in Munich – 18 July 1961) was a German architect of Norwegian descent, particularly active in church architecture. He was the son of the Norwegian-born artist and painter Olaf Gulbransson (1873–1958) ...

as a round auditorium with seating in a circular arrangement. The park was created in 1840 as an

English landscape garden The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (french: Jardin à l'anglaise, it, Giardino all'inglese, german: Englischer Landschaftsgarten, pt, Jardim inglês, es, Jardín inglés), is a sty ...

and was expanded upon in 1870 by

Carl von Effner Carl von Effner, also Karl von Effner, Carl Joseph von Effner and Carl Effner (the younger) (10 February 1831 – 22 October 1884) was gardener to the Bavarian court, later ''Königlich Bayerischer Hofgärtendirektor'' ("Royal Bavarian Court Dire ...

. In 1980, Hans-Busso von Busse added a restaurant in wood and glass which recalls the architecture of the ''Palmenhaus''.

Literature

* Klaus-Jürgen Roepke (ed.): '. Munich 1986. * Udo Hahn: '. (In: 280), Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2014.

Gallery

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References

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