Fritz Heidegger

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Fritz Heidegger (born February 6, 1894 in Meßkirch ; † June 26, 1980 ) was a German banker. At the time, he was considered the best expert on the writings of his five-year-old brother, the philosopher Martin Heidegger , and transcribed all the texts published during his brother's lifetime from his hard-to-read manuscripts into appropriate typescripts . In addition, he was also active as an author.

Live and act

"Mesmerhaus" in Meßkirch, the home of Martin and Fritz Heidegger's parents

Fritz Heidegger was the youngest son of the master cooper and mesmer Friedrich Heidegger and his wife Johanna.

As part of his school education, he attended the archbishopric Konvikt in Konstanz on Lake Constance for three years (today: Heinrich-Suso-Gymnasium ), but left it because of a language problem . He completed an apprenticeship in a bank in Berlin . In 1922 he returned to Messkirch; until his retirement he was employed by the local Volksbank.

Although Fritz Heidegger, who was intellectually equal to his brother Martin, could not take up the desired profession of clergyman, he was an authority on religious questions for Martin. For the philosopher, the transcription of his manuscripts by his brother Fritz was "more than the production of copies, because it required something else: namely, the incorporation into trains of thought that were also unknown and inaccessible to the scientific world and experts of the time." During the Second World War , Fritz Heidegger kept his brother's manuscripts in a bank vault, and after the war he often accompanied him to philosophical symposia .

Fritz Heidegger was considered a well-known original , his famous brother Martin, on the other hand, was the "brother of Fritz" in his hometown. Whenever Fritz was able to mock, he spoke without hesitation, but when he got “serious”, “Heidegger's existence” turned into “there-there-being”. He was "famous and notorious for his carnival speeches" in which he warned against "brown one hundred percent" and predicted in 1934 that "World War II" would break out "in a few years". His speeches were stylistically similar to the sermons and pulpit speeches of the Augustinian monk Abraham a Sancta Clara from Kreenheinstetten near Meßkirch . Fritz Heidegger's “idiosyncratic language creations” and the “Socratic subversive of the carnival speeches” did not stop at his brother's philosophy.

From Fritz Heidegger's works a carnival game and the speeches from 1934, 1937 and 1948 have been preserved. In 2005, a double biography about the Heidegger brothers was published under the title Martin and Fritz Heidegger. Philosophy and Carnival , written by the Berlin literary scholar Hans Dieter Zimmermann .

In autumn 2014 it was announced that the German Literature Archive Marbach had acquired 572 previously unpublished letters and 36 postcards from the correspondence between Fritz Heidegger and his brother.

Quotes

“In recognizing that the path to the national community is the path from I to you… we need at least 100 years for this. And with the help of mathematical formulas, I have calculated that it will take us at least 500 years in Messkirch. "

- Fritz Heidegger : Carnival speech 1937 , quoted from Dieter Thomä and Reinhard Mehring: Eine Chronik. Life and work of Martin Heidegger in context , in: Dieter Thomä (Ed.): Heidegger-Handbuch. Life - work - effect , Metzler, Stuttgart, Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02268-4 , p. 557

He said of his famous brother:

“Martin hot me knows who I don't need for anything, but he's a philosopher worre.
(Martin couldn't be used for anything clever, he just became a philosopher.) "

- as before

Publications

  • Twenty million dollars - wasted - in cash! , Farce , first performance in Messkirch in 1936
  • Fritz Langen: Twenty million dollars - wasted - in cash! , Radio play based on the play of the same name by Fritz Heidegger, Südwestrundfunk, SWR 4, December 11, 2010
  • 100 years Volksbank Meßkirch eGmbH: 1864–1964 , commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of Volksbank Messkirch EGMH on May 31, 1964, Heuberg-Druckerei, Messkirch 1964.
  • A birthday letter , in: Vittorio Klostermann (Ed.): Martin Heidegger on the 80th birthday of his hometown Messkirch , Frankfurt am Main 1969, pp. 58–63.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bettina Schulte: The way from theology to thinking. In: Badische Zeitung . 21st September 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d Luzia Braun : Da-Da-Da-sein. Fritz Heidegger: Wooden paths to language. Quasi una Philosophia in: Die Zeit , September 22, 1989, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  3. ↑ Martin Heidegger: Speech on the occasion of the brother's 70th birthday (February 6, 1964) , GA 16, p. 596
  4. ↑ a b c Rüdiger Safranski : A master from Germany: Heidegger and his time . Frankfurt 1997, p. 22
  5. ^ A b Maximilian Krämer: Philosophy and Carnival. The existence almost dies. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 11, 2013, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  6. ↑ Thinker: Foolish Truth . Der Spiegel 7/2002, February 14, 2005, p. 153, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Frank correspondence . kna article in the Badische Zeitung , November 15, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2017.
  8. ^ Armin Heim: Heidegger's subtle humor , Südkurier , December 14, 2010
  9. ^ Review by Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Martin Heidegger and Fritz Heidegger , Informationsmittel für Libraries 05-2-317; Hans-Dieter Zimmermann: Martin and Fritz Heidegger , pearl diver , August 5, 2005.
  10. ↑ Bettina Schulte: Follower of Being . In: Badische Zeitung , October 25, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Heidegger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Messkirch
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1980