Fritz Koegel

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Friedrich Karl Adolf Koegel , also Fritz Kögel (born August 2, 1860 in Hasserode , † October 20, 1904 in Jena ) was a German writer, philologist, composer and entrepreneur.

Career

Fritz Koegel was the first of fourteen children of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Adolf Koegel (1831–1899), who worked from 1859 to 1863 in Hasserode- Friedrichsthal in the Wernigerode district of the Prussian province of Saxony and, after a station in Schochwitz , from 1870 to 1899 in Staßfurt and his wife Ida, geb. Rocholl (1838-1892), born. On his mother's side, he was a cousin of the inventors and entrepreneurs Reinhard Mannesmann and Max Mannesmann. In 1898 he married Emily Gelzer (1877–1906), daughter of the classical philologist, ancient historian and Byzantinist Heinrich Gelzer and his wife Clara, née. Thurneysen (1853-1919).

The couple became known through the joint publication of children's poems under the title Noah's Ark .

Like his father and grandfather Friedrich Johann Koegel (1800–1858), also an Evangelical Lutheran pastor, Fritz Koegel attended the Latin school of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale) until he graduated from high school . From the summer semester of 1878 to the summer semester of 1881 he studied history, German literature and philosophy in Munich, Halle (Saale) and Göttingen. In 1883 he received his doctorate in Halle (Saale) with the philosopher Hermann Ulrici . His dissertation on the physical shapes of poetry is based on the aesthetics of Hermann Lotze .

Even before completing his doctorate, he began writing essays critical of culture, of which by mid-1886 more than 30 had appeared in renowned bourgeois journals such as Die Grenzboten and Die Gegenwart (1872–1931) - and above all in the Tälichen Rundschau (Berlin).

From autumn 1885 Koegel was the editor of the German Encyclopedia edited by Philipp von Nathusius-Ludom and discontinued after the publication of Volume 3 (1889) . A new universal encyclopedia for all areas of knowledge active for one year in Rudolstadt . He then accepted his cousins' offer to support them, initially from Remscheid until the spring of 1890, with the construction of their tube rolling mills. He was also involved in the final founding of the "Actien-Gesellschaft Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke" on July 16, 1890, as its first administrative director at the company's prominent headquarters in Berlin, Pariser Platz 6. In Berlin, however, he also followed his literary inclinations: This is how Vox humana came about, under the impression of his Nietzsche reading . Also a confessional and guest gifts. Sayings of a wanderer . Ida Coblenz revealed herself to be an enthusiastic reader , through whom he met Stefan George in June and July 1892 in Berlin. For a short time he was recruited as a staff member by Carl August Klein , the designated editor of Blätter für die Kunst , where he can publish six rhymes “From Art”. He had a friendly relationship with Werner von Siemens , who was chairman of the company's supervisory board from 1890 to 1892. At the same time as his cousins ​​Reinhard and Max Mannesmann, who were acting as general directors, Koegel left the company in October 1893.

Before 1889 first encountered publications by Friedrich Nietzsche - "for me a find for life" - Koegel gave a lecture at the Free Literary Society in Berlin at the beginning of 1892 on Nietzsche, who did not accept the interest in the life and work of the still largely unknown Made philosophers grow. His sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche became aware of him, and the Oehler-Nietzsche family won Koegel in the spring of 1894 as editor of a complete Nietzsche edition in the Nietzsche archive . Shortly after Koegel's engagement in December 1896 to Emily Gelzer, whom he had met at Förster-Nietzsche's, there arose between him and the archivist, with the participation of Rudolf Steiner , over the issue of the editor and finally his dismissal in June 1897 His secret copies of Nietzsche's letters and drafts of letters have entered science as Koegel excerpts .

As director of Ernst Sieglin, factory of Dr. Thompson's soap powder returned to Koegel in the spring of 1898. He managed the company very successfully from Düsseldorf until the end of his activity in the summer of 1904. He played an important role in the city's cultural life as a board member and a little later as chairman of the Free Literary Association from 1899 to its dissolution in 1903. The highlights of the program were events for the 100th birthday of Heinrich Heine - Koegel gave the celebratory lecture on December 18, 1899 in the Düsseldorf Tonhalle in front of an audience of more than 2,000 - and in memory of Friedrich Nietzsche.

Koegel also worked as a member of an art commission, consisting mainly of members of the Düsseldorf artists' association, Malkasten , in the preparations for the foundation of a magazine, which was published in Düsseldorf in October 1900 under the title Die Rheinlande - monthly magazine for German art with his friend Wilhelm Schäfer began to appear. He published poems and other contributions, e. B. With Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . A conversation . From October 1903 until his death he was also the editor responsible for the music supplements.

Schäfer has processed the biographies of his friends Fritz and Emily Koegel, who died prematurely - as well as Gustav Kühl (1869–1906) - in the autobiographical story Die Missgeschiceten , already praised by Kafka . A "personal testimony of considerable value is thus received" about their lives.

On July 1, 1904, Koegel and Paul Schultze-Naumburg founded the Saalecker Werkstätten GmbH , which existed until 1930, in Saaleck near Bad Kösen. The company's business purpose was the creation of individual pieces of furniture, home furnishings, houses and gardens. Schultze-Naumburg designed the largely preserved tomb - Koegel's final resting place - in the listed area of ​​the Jena North Cemetery for his friend and business partner and his family .

Koegel's narrow compositional oeuvre can be found mainly in Fifty Songs - poems and others are set to music. a. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Friedrich Nietzsche, Detlev von Liliencron , Richard Dehmel , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gerhart Hauptmann , Martin Greif and Theodor Fontane , plus a children's poem of their own. During Koegel's lifetime, Nietzsche poems in particular were presented publicly in memorial services for the philosopher. In memory of the composer, the well-known soprano Lilli Lehmann performed five songs each by Brahms, Schubert and Koegel on November 18, 1904 in the Berlin Philharmonic.

Fritz Koegel was an avid alpinist. In 1895, with the Austrian mountain guide Karl Hofer, he achieved numerous first ascents in the Tyrolean Reichenspitz group .

In 2007, part of the Koegel estate, previously assumed to be lost, was brought to the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar.

Works

As editor

  • [Friedrich] Nietzsche's works

As an author (selection)

  • Lotse's aesthetics . Goettingen 1886
  • [anonymous] Vox humana. Also a confessional book . Stuttgart, Leipzig, Berlin 1892
  • Guest gifts. Sayings of a wanderer . Leipzig undated [1893]
  • Poems . Leipzig 1898
  • [with Emily Koegel] Noah's Ark. Rhymes . Leipzig 1901

Music prints (selection)

  • Fifty songs . Leipzig 1901
  • Twelve children's songs for a voice with piano accompaniment . Leipzig undated [1903]

literature

  • David Marc Hoffmann: On the history of the Nietzsche archive . Walter de Gruyter. Berlin, New York 1991, ISBN 3-11-013014-9
  • Wilhelm Schäfer: The misguided . Re-edited by Christoph Knüppel and Cornelius Lüttke with commentary and an afterword. Aisthesis Bielefeld 2011. ISBN 978-3-89528-846-3 [a CD with Koegel settings is enclosed]
  • Hubert Cancik, Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier : Forms of Nietzsche Reception in Berlin 1865 to 1945 , with an appendix by Cornelius Lüttke: Bibliography Fritz Koegel (1860-1904) . In: Renate Reschke, Marco Brusotti (eds.): “Some are born posthumously”. Friedrich Nietzsche's effects . Walter de Gruyter. Berlin, Boston 2012, pp. 443–473. ISBN 978-3-11-026086-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A current and detailed account of Koegel's life and work, without his activity as Nietzsche editor, can be found in: Schäfer (epilogue), p. 138ff. In particular on his work as Nietzsche editor in detail in: Hoffmann, p. 135ff.
  2. ^ Cancik, Cancik-Lindemaier (Appendix Lüttke), pp. 465-468
  3. ↑ "On May 24, 1890, the inventors [Reinhard Mannesmann, Max Mannesmann] and their father [Reinhard Mannesmann senior], Werner von Siemens, Eugen Langen, Dr. Georg Siemens, Dr. Rosenthal and Dr. Koegel for the establishment of the large Mannesmann Society. "(Horst A. Wessel: Continuity in Change. 100 Years of Mannesmann. 1890-1990 . Mannesmann AG 1990, p. 55)
  4. ↑ Schäfer (afterword), p. 155ff.
  5. ↑ Blätter für die Kunst 1st part, Vol. 3 (March 1893), pp. 70–71
  6. ↑ Ruthilt Brandt-Mannesmann: Documents from the life of the inventor. Max Mannesmann, Reinhard Mannesmann . Bergischer Geschichtsverein e. V. Remscheid 1964. p. 49
  7. ↑ Fritz Koegel to Rosalie Schwetschke v. November 29, 1890, cit. according to Christoph Knüppel: Wilhelm Schäfer and his “misfortunate” friends , in: Schäfer (epilogue), pp. 145–146
  8. ↑ Magazine for Literature 61, No. 5 v. January 20, 1892, p. 88 on the lecture on January 12, 1892. Quoted from Schäfer (afterword), p. 148
  9. ↑ Hoffmann, p. 138
  10. ^ Hoffmann: The Koegel excerpts . In (ders.), P. 407 ff.Ders .: Koegel excerpts . In: Christian Niemeyer (ed.): Nietzsche Lexicon . 2nd ed. Wiss. Book Society 2011. p. 200. ISBN 978-3-534-24028-9
  11. ↑ Schäfer (afterword), p. 182 f. to the history of the foundation
  12. ↑ Die Rheinlande 1, No. 1 (Oct. 1900), pp. 27–33
  13. ↑ Hoffmann, p. 135 (quotation), Schäfer (commentary), p. 53-80 (on the real background of the event)
  14. ↑ Schäfer (illustrations), p. 114
  15. ^ Cancik, Cancik-Lindemaier (Appendix Lüttke), p. 470
  16. ↑ Wolfchen auf der Wiese , in: Fritz Koegel: Fünfzig Lieder , pp. 103-105
  17. ↑ Schäfer (illustrations), p. 107 (facsimile invitation sheet for the Nietzsche memorial service on October 15, 1903 in the Nietzsche Archive, Weimar)
  18. ↑ Schäfer (afterword), p. 167
  19. ↑ Schäfer (illustrations), p. 99
  20. ↑ Koegel has published extensively on this and other ascents. Cf. Ders .: Die Reichenspitzgruppe , in: Zeitschrift des Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenverein 28 (1897), pp. 188–228, online
  21. ↑ Hoffmann, p. 786
  22. ↑ Provisional signature: GSA NZ 06/07
  23. ↑ Between 1895 and 1897, eight work and four estate volumes were published. To distinguish it from the other Nietzsche editions with the abbreviation GAK (so-called Gesamtausgabe ed. Koegel) known. See Weimar Nietzsche Bibliography. Vol. 1, Stuttgart 2000, pp. 3-6, 52, 105, 124 and 128 with titles, notes, and contents
personal data
SURNAME Koegel, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koegel, Friedrich Karl Adolf; Kögel, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, philologist, composer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasserode
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1904
Place of death Jena