Editing Hiddensee (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:Hiddensoe by walter gramatte.jpg|thumb|Hiddensoe by [[Walter Gramatté]] (1922)]]
The island of Hiddensee enjoyed the reputation of an [[Art colony|artists' colony]] from the beginning of the 20th century. Artists of all kinds spent the summer months there and recorded their impressions in their work.

From 1904, the painter [[Elisabeth Büchsel]] spent the summer months in Neuendorf. In the same year, [[Oskar Kruse]] built his Lietzenburg in Kloster, which became an artists' meeting place. Later, his sister-in-law, the doll maker [[Käthe Kruse]], also lived there. In the [[Blaue Scheune]] in Vitte, the summer residence of [[Henni Lehmann]], the ''[[Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund]]'' met from 1922 to 1933. Other artists closely associated with Hiddensee from the period after the First World War are [[Willy Jaeckel]] and [[Joachim Ringelnatz]].
[[File:Hanns Mehner Gesichterbaum.jpg|thumb|''Gesichterbaum'' by Hanns Mehner]]
Even during the [[East Germany|GDR]] era, numerous artists regularly stayed on Hiddensee and reflected on everyday life and the landscape in their paintings, prints and books, such as the writer [[Hanns Cibulka]]. The dancer and dance teacher [[Gret Palucca]] spent every summer on Hiddensee from 1948, was given a plot of land in Vitte by the GDR, on which she had a house built in 1961, which was demolished by an investor in 2009. Palucca was buried in the island cemetery in Kloster, where also lies artistic director [[Walter Felsenstein]], who had a house built opposite the Lietzenburg, where he spent the summer months.

Felsenstein's neighbor, the painter [[Willi Berger]] (1922–2018), lived on Hiddensee since 1955. His catalog raisonné includes more than 4200 paintings, most of them with Hiddensee or people on Hiddensee as a motif. He also restored paintings of the painter Elisabeth Büchsel, but from 1955 to 1979 he was a full-time ornithologist and conservator at the ornithological station of Hiddensee. In his home and studio ''Schwalbennest'' on the Hügelweg in Kloster, a memorial exhibition was held in October 2019. Whether this will become a permanent exhibition is still uncertain.<ref>Ostsee Zeitung:&nbsp;''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191230222655/https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Der-alte-Mann-und-seine-Insel Der alte Mann und seine Insel].''&nbsp;{{in lang |de}}.&nbsp;Archiviert&nbsp;vom&nbsp;Original&nbsp;am&nbsp;30&nbsp;December 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-30.</ref>

Since 1987, the painter [[Torsten Schlüter]] celebrates his ''Hiddenseer Sommerausstellungen im Garten'' at various locations on the island such as the Schliekerschen Haus in Kloster. Currently, he owns an exhibition space in the former arts and crafts store of Irene Hasenberg at the Hotel Dornbusch and a studio in his house above the steep coast of Kloster (Biologist path), which he has named ''Anna Hucke'' and where he also exhibits in the garden in the summer.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2019-12-30|author=Ostsee Zeitung|language=de|title=Hiddenseer Weltenbummler zurück|date=28 June 2018 |url=https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Vorpommern/Ruegen/Hiddensee-Weltenbummler-zurueck}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The exhibition is held in the garden.

Traditionally, a lot of [[Carving|carving art]] is made from [[driftwood]] and other dead wood on Hiddensee. In the 1970s and 1980s, mainly by the [[Schierke|Schierk]] musician and artist [[Hanns Mehner]] (1927–2005), who at that time spent the summer months at his mother-in-law's house in Kloster. Mehner's owls, [[totem pole]]s, and faces adorned the front gardens of Kloster (some to this day).<ref>''Der Klang muss eine Heimat haben – Zum Tod von Hanns Mehner'', Neue Wernigeröder Zeitung, 2005/2, p. 7</ref> After the fall of the Berlin Wall, [[Jo. Harbort]] continued this tradition. His wooden sculptures are placed among others at the playgrounds in Vitte and Neuendorf, at the harbors in Kloster and Neuendorf, at the church in Kloster and at the ''Inselblick''. Together with the innkeepers ''Zum Klausner'', he opened a sculpture park at the inn in 2005, which was created by students of the Theater Sculpture class at the [[Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]] and is expanded annually by new works of the respective class.<ref>Seebad Hiddensee: ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190617122810/https://www.seebad-hiddensee.de/kulturelles/aktuelle-termine/details/event/show/studentensymposium-am-klausner-das-elfte/ Studentensymposium am Klausner].'' {{in lang |de}}. Archived from the original 17 June 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.</ref> Harbort's sculptures are also displayed at the island view.

Furthermore, there is a tent cinema at the harbor of Vitte and the [[Puppet|puppet theater]] Seebühne in Vitte as well as the galleries ''Am Seglerhafen'' in Vitte, ''Am Torbogen'', ''Galerie am Hügel'' and ''Hedins Oe'' in Kloster.