Emil Utitz

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Emil Utitz (born May 27, 1883 in Roztoky , Bohemia ; † November 2, 1956 in Jena ) was a German-speaking philosopher , psychologist and art theorist .

Life

Utitz was born as the son of the leather goods manufacturer Gotthold Utitz and his wife Philippine born in Prague . Born a thousand . His parents come from Jewish families.

From 1902 to 1906 Utitz studied law , archeology , art history , philosophy and psychology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Leipzig and the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . There he received his doctorate in 1906 under Christian von Ehrenfels , a student of Franz Brentano , to become Dr. phil. In 1910 he completed his habilitation with Franz Bruno Erhardt at the University of Rostock . Until 1916 private lecturer for philosophy, he received in 1916 a titular professor . In 1919, when David Katz was appointed to a newly created professorship, psychology was expanded at the University of Rostock and Utitz was given a teaching position in aesthetics and psychology in connection with this . In previous years, Utitz had been committed to founding an institute for psychology several times. From 1921 to 1924 Utitz held an unscheduled position as associate professor for philosophy at the University of Rostock . From 1925 to 1933 he was full professor at the Friedrichs University in Halle .

Utitz and his wife Ottilie geb. Schwarzkopf were from Judaism to Protestant church converted . After the general election in March 1933 by the Nazis leave provisionally on 29 April 1933 Utitz was on 23 September of the same year after the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service in the mixed final retirement . He then emigrated to Prague. From 1934 until the smashing of the rest of the Czech Republic , he held the chair for philosophy at the German Karl Ferdinand University . He belonged to a group of writers around the writer couple Gertrude and Johannes Urzidil .

Utitz was on 30 July 1942 by Prague in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported . Since he was one of the "prominent" prisoners together with Leo Baeck , he was employed as head of the library. For a time he was deputy head of "Leisure Time". Utitz and Baeck gave extensive lectures on various topics in Theresienstadt. Utitz gave his first lecture on November 24, 1942, on mental hygiene in Theresienstadt. Utitz and Baeck survived the difficult years in the “Ghetto” and reported on the “University over the Abyss” in the post-war period . Utitz's book Psychologie zivota Terezinskem koncentracznim tabore ( Psychology of Life in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp ), written in Czech , was published in Prague in 1947. In it he reports on a scientific society in Theresienstadt, which met twice a month on Thursday and had a strictly limited number of participants.

From 1945 Utitz taught again at the Charles University in Prague .

Works

  • J. [ohann] J. [acob] Wilhelm Heinse and the aesthetics of the German Enlightenment. A problem history study. Max Niemeyer publishing house. Halle Saale 1906.
  • Basics of aesthetic color theory . Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1908.
  • What is style Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1911.
  • The functional joys in aesthetic behavior. Max Niemeyer publishing house. Halle Saale 1911.
  • The foundations of the recent art movement. A presentation. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1913.
  • Foundation of general art history. 2 volumes. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1914-1920.
  • The objectivity of the work of art. As: Philosophical Lectures. Volume 17. Reuther & Reichard publishing house. Berlin 1917.
  • Simulation psychology. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1918.
  • Academic career guidance. Lecture given at the Academic Association for University Reform in Rostock. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1920.
  • The main features of present-day culture are presented. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1921.
  • Aesthetics. As: source manuals of philosophy. Volume 9. Verlag Rolf Heise. Berlin 1923.
  • Characterology . Publisher Rolf Heise. [Berlin-] Charlottenburg 1925.
  • The artist. Four lectures. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1925.
  • Philosophy textbook. Published by Max Dessoir . Volume 2: Philosophy in its individual areas. Represented by Erich Becher : Epistemology and Metaphysics. Kurt Koffka : Psychology. Paul Menzer : Ethics. Johann Baptist Rieffert : Logic. Moritz Schlick : Natural Philosophy. Paul Tillich : Philosophy of Religion. Emil Utitz: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art. Berlin 1925.
  • Overcoming Expressionism. Characterological studies on contemporary culture. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1927.
  • About the spiritual foundations of the recent art movement. [1] As: Friedrich Mann's Pedagogical Magazine. Booklet 1231. [2] As: Writings from the Euckenkreis. Published by the Euckenbund. Issue 32. Verlag Hermann Beyer & Sons. Langensalza 1929.
  • Christian Wolff. Speech on the 250th anniversary of his birthday in the auditorium of the United Friedrichs University in Halle-Wittenberg. As: Halle University Speeches. Issue 45. Max Niemeyer publisher. Halle Saale 1929.
  • History of aesthetics. Als: History of Philosophy in Longitudinal Sections. Edited by Willy Moog . Volume 6. Junker & Dünnhaupt publisher. Berlin 1932.
  • People and culture. Publisher Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart 1933.
  • The mission of philosophy in our time. Sijthoff publishing house. Leiden (Netherlands) 1935.
  • Masaryk as a people's educator. Lecture on the occasion of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk's 85th birthday . Prague 1935.
  • Psychology zivota Terezinskem koncentracznim tabore . Prague 1947
    • Psychology of life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Publishing house A. Sexl. Vienna 1948.
  • Egon Erwin Kisch. The classic journalist. Construction publishing house. Berlin 1956.
  • Remarks on ancient Greek art theory. Academy Publishing House. Berlin 1959.
  • Yearbook of Characterology . Edited by Emil Utitz. Berlin 1924–1929.

literature

  • Georg Mende : Emil Utitz in memory ; in: Scientific journal of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (social and linguistic series) 6 (1956/57) 1/2, pp. 1–2.
  • Heinz Grassel: On the development of psychology at the University of Rostock; in: Scientific journal of the Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock (social and linguistic series) 20 (1971) 3/4, pp. 155–163.
  • Anna Hyndráková, Helena Krejčová, Jana Svobodová: Prominenti v ghettu Terezín 1942–1945. Documenty . Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR, Prague 1996.
  • Henrik Eberle : The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 394f
  • Reinhard Mehring : The concentration camp as an ethical experience. On the characterology of Emil Utitz. In: German magazine for philosophy. Volume 51, 2003. pp. 761-775.
  • Reinhard Mehring (Ed.): Ethics according to Theresienstadt. Late texts by the Prague philosopher Emil Utitz (1883–1956). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-8260-5655-0 .
  • Reinhard Mehring: Philosophy in Exile. Emil Utitz, Arthur Liebert and the exile magazine Philosophia. Documentation on the fate of two Holocaust victims. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8260-6449-4 .
  • Uwe Wolfradt: Emil Utitz (1883–1956) - A psychologist reports from the Theresienstadt camp. In: Martin Wieser (ed.): Psychology in National Socialism , Berlin a. a .: Peter Lang 2020 (contributions to the history of psychology; 32), ISBN 978-3-631-80392-9 , pp. 89-104.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrities . In: Theresienstadt Lexicon .
  2. ↑ Utitz, Prof. Dr. Emil. In: Theresienstadt Lexicon.
  3. ↑ Elena Makarova, Sergei Makarov, Victor Kuperman: University Over the Abyss. The story behind 520 lecturers and 2,430 lectures in Theresienstadt concentration camp 1942–1944 , 2nd edition, Verba Publishers, Jerusalem 2004, ISBN 965-424-049-1 . (with further information about Utitz)
personal data
SURNAME Utitz, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Roztoky u Prahy , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1956
Place of death Jena