Walther Rehm
Walther Rehm (born November 13, 1901 in Erlangen , † December 6, 1963 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German literary scholar.
Life and family
Rehm spent a large part of his school time in Strasbourg and in 1919 passed his Abitur at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich . He then studied German, history and art history at the University of Munich .
In 1923, he was with a thesis on the literary Renaissance image of the 18th and 19th centuries Dr. phil. and since 1929 was a private lecturer in modern German literary history in Munich. Planned appointments to Würzburg, Marburg / Lahn, Göttingen and Strasbourg failed due to openly expressed criticism of the National Socialist worldview and politics. Entry into the NSDAP in 1942 as well as the NS teachers' association and the NS People's Welfare were forced. The denazification process after 1945 turned out to be difficult due to party membership; it was not fully rehabilitated until 1950.
After a substitute professor, Rehm was full professor for modern German literary history at the University of Giessen from 1940 . From 1943 until his death he taught at the University of Freiburg .
His son was the musicologist Wolfgang Rehm .
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At the time of National Socialism, Rehm was able to break away from the völkisch zeitgeist in his scientific work by specifically turning to the unheroic, for example in the works of Dostoyevsky , Kierkegaard and Jean Paul . His studies on the afterlife of antiquity ( Greeks and Goethe times ) and the cult of the dead by Novalis , Holderlin and Rilke ( Orpheus. The Poets and the Dead ) remained particularly influential . Finally, he was also active as a historical-critical editor. He rendered special services to the edition of the letters from and to Johann Joachim Winckelmann .
Membership in societies and academies
- 1944 member of the German Archaeological Institute
- 1956 corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
- Member of the Winckelmann Society in Stendal
Honors
- 1960 Winkelmann badge from the city of Stendal
Fonts (selection)
- The Thought of Death in German Poetry from the Middle Ages to Romanticism (1928)
- The renaissance cult around 1900 and its overcoming (1929)
- Jacob Burckhardt (biography) by Walter Rehm. Publishing house Huber Frauenfeld u. Leipzig 1930
- The fall of Rome in Western thought (1930)
- Greece and Goethe time (1936)
- European Romance Poetry (1939)
- Experimentum Medietatis (1947)
- Kierkegaard and the Seducer (1949)
- Orpheus. The Poets and the Dead (1950)
- Divine silence and mourning (1951). Collection of articles
- The Poet and the New Solitude (1969)
literature
- Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Margburgensis . Second volume: 1910 to 1971 . Elwert, Marburg 1979, pp. 589-590
- Hans Peter Herrmann: Rehm, Walther. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 3: R-Z. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 1473-1475.
- Conrad Wiedemann : Rehm, Walther. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 283 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Walther Rehm on the website of the University of Giessen
- Obituary by Hugo Kuhn (PDF file)
- Literature by and about Walther Rehm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Walther Rehm obituary by Hugo Kuhn in the 1964 yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
- ↑ Walther Rehm at leo-bw.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rehm, Walther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German literary scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | gain |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1963 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |