Franz Siepe

Franz Siepe (2010)

Franz Siepe (born January 18, 1955 in Nuttlar ; † July 1, 2013 in Marburg ) was a German publicist .

Career

After graduating from the Benedictine Meschede humanistic grammar school in Meschede , he began studying German, politics and philosophy in Marburg in 1973 and, in 1986, developed a job profile as a freelance language advisor.

Since 1998 she has produced her own publications with a focus on cultural and literary history . Essay and feature productions at Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Deutschlandfunk (DLF) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) complemented this journalistic work. In 2002, the book Questions of Adoration of Mary followed . In 2007 his book The Colors of Eros was published , in which he published his research on the dualism of heavenly and earthly love in a popular form. On the other hand, his basic work Colors of Eros , published in 2004, makes a more scientific claim .

As a freelance and independent humanities and cultural studies scholar, Siepe was also active as a reviewer and published in online media such as Glanz & Elend - magazine for literature and contemporary criticism , at literaturkritik.de and on the art history portal . Since 2012 he has been a freelance writer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) in the field of “humanities”. At the center of his thinking was the reconstruction of the historical and cultural history of bipolar tensions such as “light versus dark”, “above versus below”, “heavenly versus earthly” or “abysmal versus sublime”. He has devoted himself to the subject of Marian veneration as an exercise of religion "from below" in several magazine articles.

Siepe lived in Marburg.

Literature / publications

• Questions of devotion to Mary. Beginnings, early Middle Ages, Black Madonnas. Mantis-Verlag, Graefelfing 2002, ISBN 3-928852-22-1 (240 pages).
• Colors of eros. Marginalia on the cultural history of the perception of love and beauty in antiquity and the Christian West. Kline-Verlag, Marburg 2004, Kline-Verlag, ISBN 3-00-014777-2 (250 pages).
• The colors of eros. The ideal of beauty through the ages. wjs-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937989-35-8 (175 pages).

Articles (selection)

• Wieland and the Prodikeean Hercules . In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society, 45/2001, pp. 73–96.
• The kneeling in Raphael's Transfiguration - A figure of Venus ? In: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 68/2005, pp. 547–553.
• "Mother of Purification". Marian sediments in Hugo Ball's Byzantine Christianity. In: Hugo Ball Almanach, New Series 5/2014, pp. 160–180.

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Siepe in the catalog of the German National Library
• Franz Siepe in the Lexicon of Literary Studies
• Official homepage of Franz Siepe
• Author page of the wjs publishing house

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oberhessische Presse of July 6, 2013
2. ↑ cf. Walter Hueck: The polarity of truth. Remagen 1961.
3. ^ Romano Guardini: The Contrast. Mainz 1955.
4. ↑ Peter Sloterdijk: You have to change your life. Frankfurt 2009.