Christoph Friedrich Heinle

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Christoph Friedrich Heinle (born March 1, 1894 in Mayen , † August 8, 1914 in Berlin ) was a German poet.

Life

He was born in Mayen in 1894. From the age of 12 he grew up in Aachen . He had been friends with Philipp Keller and Ludwig Strauss since his school days . Heinle began studying philology in Göttingen and continued it in Freiburg im Breisgau in the 1913 summer semester . There he met Walter Benjamin , with whom he remained close friends until his death, despite some difficulties and resentments.

Heinle and Benjamin worked for the beginning , the magazine of the youth movement around Gustav Wyneken . In the winter semester of 1913/14, they moved to the University of Berlin . As in Freiburg, they worked together in the free student body, especially in its "Department for Art and Literature". Heinle and Benjamin appeared together at events of the expressionist "action" . Individual poems by Heinle were published in 1912 and 1913.

A few days after the outbreak of World War I, and probably out of desperation about its foreseen consequences, Christoph Friedrich Heinle and his girlfriend Friederike (Rika) Seligson committed suicide by gas.

Work, aftermath

Walter Benjamin kept Heinle's estate in safe custody and, for many years after his friend's death, tried in vain to get it published. He himself wrote more than 50 sonnets in Heine's memory, which were long thought to be lost, but were found again in 1981. Heinle's estate was probably lost during Walter Benjamin's escape from National Socialism .

Heinle's brother Wolf, who was four years his junior, also wrote poems and dramas; he died in 1923. Benjamin also tried in vain to publish them. Friederike Seligson's younger sister, Gertrud (Traute) Seligson, also committed suicide in November 1914 in protest against the war.

The German-Israeli literary scholar Werner Kraft tried to get Heinle's poems after the war and published two essays on him. The appendix to Benjamin's Collected Writings (1989) also includes prints of Heinle's poems.

In 2016 a first independent book was published, “Christoph Friedrich Heinle. Poetry and Prose ”by Johannes Steizinger. Heinle's work, which is known today, mainly comprises poetry, along with some prose pieces. Nine letters have been received.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e publishing information ( Kulturverlag-kadmos.de ) to: Johannes Steizinger: Christoph Friedrich Heinle. Poetry and prose , accessed December 27, 2018
  2. ^ A b Gregor Brand: Christoph Friedrich Heinle, poet from Mayen , portrait in the Eifel-Zeitung on May 2, 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Rolf Tiedemann : Afterword in: ders. (Ed.): Walter Benjamin - Sonette , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1986, ISBN 978-3518018767 , online
  4. ↑ Walter Benjamin: Collected Letters , ed. by Christoph Gödde and Henri Loniz, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, Volume I, p. 255, note
  5. ↑ Werner Kraft: Heart and Mind. Collected essays on German literature , Vienna, Cologne 1989, p. 410 ff.
  6. ↑ Appendix to Benjamin: Gesammelte Schriften , cf. Vol. VII / 2, Frankfurt a. M. 1989, p. 571 ff.
  7. ↑ Johannes Steizinger (Ed.): Christoph Friedrich Heinle. Poetry and prose. With a preface by Giorgio Agamben . Kadmos, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-86599-257-4
personal data
SURNAME Heinle, Christoph Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinle, CF (short name); Heinle, Friedrich C. (short name); Heinle, Fritz (short name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1914
Place of death Berlin