Friedrich Doldinger

Friedrich (Leopold) Doldinger (born December 2, 1897 in Radolfzell am Bodensee , † September 2, 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German anthroposophist , pastor of the Christian community , composer and writer.

Life

Friedrich Doldinger grew up with two older brothers as the son of a post office clerk in Radolfzell on Lake Constance. He renounced Catholicism at the age of 14. His constitution was weakened from childhood on by a lung tear and a gymnastics accident. The father was transferred to Freiburg im Breisgau, where Friedrich attended the secondary school. He was class leader , read a lot and loved the Germanic sagas of gods and heroes. He got to know anthroposophy at the age of 16 and heard Rudolf Steiner give a lecture in Stuttgart, which he did not like.

In the summer of 1916 he passed an external Abitur, for which he had prepared without school, and began to study in Freiburg. His interests were broad: experimental physics, literature, philosophy, musicology. In 1921 he completed his studies with a doctoral thesis on Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi , which was recognized by Edmund Husserl .

During a hospital stay in Munich, he met well-known anthroposophists such as Albert Steffen , Ernst Uehli , Otto Graf von Lerchenfeld and Michael Bauer . In autumn 1920 he took part in the first anthroposophical university course for the opening of the first Goetheanum building in Dornach together with his future wife Johanna.

In the summer of 1921 a student from Tübingen, Tom Kändler, visited him in Freiburg: Rudolf Steiner referred to him and suggested that he invite him to Dornach for the second theological course in autumn. Friedrich Doldinger followed this call and joined the founding group of the Christian Community. On September 16, 1922 he was ordained a priest by Friedrich Rittelmeyer and was appointed by him to one of the first three “drivers”.

In 1927 he visited the aged Édouard Schuré in Paris and then his summer house in Barr, Alsace, at the foot of Mount Odile .

In the two world wars, he did not have to enter because of his always ailing constitution. At the time when the Christian community was banned, he studied composition with Julius Weismann , had a large number of piano students and wrote what is probably his best-known book, that of Mozart (first printed in 1943).

Doldinger gave the title “Christ of all Earth” for the first series of publications by the Christian Community (with 39 volumes at the end). He has written around 16 dramas and plays, 15 collections of poems, sayings and prose, four biographies and numerous religious considerations and magazine articles. His colleague Siegfried Gussmann later published many art postcards from his paintings. Some of his compositions were also printed.

Works

Non-fiction

• Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's youth development up to the Allwill fragment (1775) in relation to the overall development , Phil. Diss. Freiburg im Breisgau 1921
• Bread and Wine , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 13), Stuttgart 1925
• Emperor Julian , the sun confessor , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 23), Stuttgart 1926
  • modified new edition: Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1965 (3rd A. 1987)
• The Christian Family , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 31), Stuttgart 1929
• Old age, illness, separation, death , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of all earth 32), Stuttgart 1930
• Christ with the Teutons. Knowledge - Hope - Awakening , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart 1933
• Alhambra. Joseph von Auffenberg's pilgrimage to the realm of spirits , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 36), Stuttgart 1934
• Piety with the days of the week , Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1940
  • New edition as: Life with the days of the week , Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1972 (April 4, 1990)
• Mozart , Alemannen-Verlag Alber Jauss, Stuttgart 1943
  • New edition: Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1956 (as Goldmann paperback: Munich 1990)
• The Eternal City , Novalis, Freiburg im Breisgau 1946
  • New edition: Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-8251-7164-7
• Goethe. Steps and overviews , Oda, Cologne 1960

Literary works

• The white stone. Thirteen figures , Michael Verlag (Christ of All Earth 9), Munich 1924
• The table. A conversation, a collection of sayings and a legend , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 20), Stuttgart 1925
• Blimblemplästra. Humoresken , Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1926
• Erda-Maria . Poems, Verlag der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart 1926
• The lost crown. Fairy tale , Orient-Occident-Verlag, Stuttgart 1927
• The Gryff bird. A game based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm , Julius Umbach, Lörrach 1927
• Fim Fam etc. A comical piece of chatter in 3 acts , Orient-Occident-Verlag, Stuttgart 1929
• The cloud candlestick. A contemporary sequence of scenes , Geering, Basel 1930
• Wisdom of the clouds. Thoughts and poems from the experience of the cloud kingdom , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth 33), Stuttgart 1931
  • New edition as: A silent gliding ... Poet in conversation with the clouds , Free Spiritual Life (Rosen-Bibliothek 18), Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8251-7716-5
• Leprosy in Cluny. An act , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart 1933
• Middle of life . Poems, Verlag der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart 1935
• Transformation of the plagues. A game of old age, illness, separation, death , Verlag der Christengemeinschaft, Stuttgart 1935
• Evening and morning . Thoughts and dramatic scenes by FD, with a selection of German poems from the baroque to the present, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1936
• The boy's sacrifice . Narrative poetry, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1937
• Someone came . Drama in two acts and a prelude, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1938
• The swan knight . Poems, Bremen 1949
• World watch . Stories, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1952
• Gold shimmered in the fire vehicle . A selection from the poems, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1957
• Advent . Poems, self-published, Salzburg 1958
• Spring. A conversation , self-published, Salzburg 1958
• Star ride. Sayings , self-published, Salzburg 1959
• Drinking pit . Narrative poetry, Oda, Cologne 1960
• Drei-König-Sprüche , Freiburg im Breisgau n.d.
• The future is born . Dramatic play in one act, Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1967
• The year of the soul . Poems, Gussmann, Freiburg im Breisgau 1967
• Mystical boat trip , Gussmann, Freiburg im Breisgau n.d.
• The island of the forgiving . Dramatic play in three acts, Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1969
• The asylum . Poems, Stuttgart 1970

Compositions

• The heavens boast of eternal honor. Celebration music , two volumes (text songs / instrumental music), Bärenreiter, Kassel 1926
• Thirty choirs with and without accompaniment , Freiburg im Breisgau 1961
• Instrumental movements , Freiburg im Breisgau 1964

literature

• Rudolf F. Gädeke: Friedrich Doldinger , in: Die Gründer der Christengemeinschaft , Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 10), Dornach 1992, pp. 118–129
• Thomas Neß: Philosophy on the way to reality. Friedrich Doldinger's contributions to the philosophy of a phenomenological spiritual science of the self-organization of humans , Möllmann, Borchen 2003, ISBN 3-89979-012-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Doldinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls