Alfred Schaefer (writer)

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Alfred Schaefer (born July 25, 1907 in Rosdzin , Upper Silesia , today in Katowice ; died October 12, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German writer in the field of political philosophy .

Biographical sketch

Alfred Schaefer was born in Upper Silesia, but came to Berlin with his parents as a child . At the end of the 1920s he studied with the philosophers Artur Buchenau and Eduard Spranger as well as with the Gestalt theorists Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler . At the same time he was active as an actor on the Piscator stage and Gerhard Bienert's “Group of Young Actors” and in 1932 had a role in the Brecht film Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? Schaefer was already heavily involved in politics during the emergence of National Socialism . As a member of the KPD he was still active when it was banned in 1933, so he established contact with the Neukölln group “ Parole ”, which consisted of former Social Democrats. In 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for "preparation for high treason ". Immediately after his release in 1940 he emigrated to Shanghai , survived the war there and returned to Germany in 1948. Here he had to find out that his family no longer existed. Schaefer decided to emigrate a second time, this time to Australia , where he continued his interrupted studies. For his doctorate on the political philosophy of David Hume , which he submitted to the Free University of Berlin in 1960 , he returned to Germany in 1956, to the western part, since he had distanced himself from party communism due to the developments in the Soviet Union . Since the 1960s, Schaefer has worked as a prolific philosophical writer and regular reviewer for the Philosophical Literature Gazette .

Alfred Schaefer last lived in Berlin. His urn was buried with his relatives murdered in the Third Reich in the Weißensee cemetery.

Fonts

literature

  • Dorothée Grandl: Existence and Proskynesis. About the German ideologist Alfred Schaefer. In: Fourth stage, 1989, pp. 97-108.
  • Hans-Rainer Sandvoss : The "other" capital of the Reich: Resistance from the workers' movement in Berlin from 1933 to 1945. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-936872-94-1 , p. 296 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Schaefer: Knowledge, human nature and image of the political man in the philosophy of David Hume. Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin 1960, p. 179 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ a b Sabine S. Gehlhaar: Alfred Schaefer, sA [obituary]. In: Prima Philosophia. Volume 13 (2000), ISSN  0933-5749 , p. 78 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Curt Trepte, Renate Waack: Heinrich Greif: artist and communist. Henschel, Berlin 1974, p. 211 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Fieber: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933 to 1945: a biographical encyclopedia. Volume 7: Saalinger - Szymczak. Trafo-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89626-357-9 , p. 31 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Schaefer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer in the field of political philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosdzin , Upper Silesia , today in Katowice
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1999
Place of death Berlin