Eckhard Heftrich

Eckhard Heftrich (born December 8, 1928 in Stockach ( Lake Constance )) is a German literary scholar . He is a professor emeritus at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Career

Eckhard Heftrich grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau , where he studied philosophy, German and Romance studies at the Albert Ludwigs University there . In 1958 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "Philosophy and Rilke", which already indicated his topic of mediation between literature and philosophy , with which he was henceforth occupied. After graduating, he was a freelance writer. From 1965 to 1969 he wrote as a freelancer for the educational programs of German broadcasters.

Act

With a grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) he was able to publish books on Nietzsche and Novalis between 1959 and 1966 . Since the publication of Nietzsche's philosophy. Identity of the world and nothing In 1962 he worked with the Vittorio Klostermann publishing house in Frankfurt am Main , where almost all of his books were published and in which he has also published the series “The West, Research on the History of European Spiritual Life” since 1972.

After his habilitation in 1970 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Cologne on the basis of the publications available, he moved to the University of Munich as a Scientific Councilor for Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature . In 1974 he was appointed full professor at the Department of German Studies at the University of Münster.

Through biographical and comparative studies, Heftrich opened up "above all the individuality of the individual work". Since the 1970s his interest has focused on Thomas Mann research, to which he contributed with numerous essays and three books totaling 1,300 pages.

After his retirement, Heftrich became the main editor of the historical-critical edition of Thomas Mann's work and initiated colloquia for the German Thomas Mann Society in Lübeck , of which Heftrich was president from 1986 to 1994. 1989 awarded him University of Lille , the honorary doctorate . Since 1991 he has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences , and since 1992 of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Fonts

• The philosophy and Rilke , Alber, Freiburg / Munich. 1962
• Nietzsche's philosophy. Identity of the world and nothing , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. 1962
• Hegel and Jacob Burckhardt. On the crisis of historical consciousness , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. 1967
• Stefan George . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1968
• Novalis. From the Logos of Poetry , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. 1969
• About Thomas Mann: Zauberbergmusik , Vol. 1 (1975), From Decay to Apocalypse , Vol. 2 (1982), Dreamed Deeds. Joseph and his brothers , Vol. 3 (1993), Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
• Lessing's explanation. On the theological-philosophical late writings , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. 1978
• Musil. Artemis Introductions Vol. 30, Artemis, Munich / Zurich. 1986
• Nietzsche's tragic greatness , Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. 2000

literature

• Heinz Gockel (Ed.): Wagner - Nietzsche - Thomas Mann . Festschrift for Eckhard Heftrich, 1993
• Edo Reents : The incorruptible. To the philologist Eckhard Heftrich on the ninetieth, in: FAZ No. 286, December 8, 2018, p. 14.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckhard Heftrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Eckhard Heftrich in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors