Fritz Klatt

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Fritz Klatt (born May 22, 1888 in Berlin , † July 26, 1945 in Vienna ) was a German reform pedagogue , writer and draftsman .

Life

Raised in a middle-class milieu in Berlin's Westend , he studied history , philosophy , art and literature in Geneva and Berlin from 1908 onwards , with Heinrich Wölfflin , Alois Riehl , Gustav von Schmoller , Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Kurt Breysig , among others .

Klatt is one of the so-called prodigal sons of the bourgeoisie who, in the course of their involvement in the Free German youth movement, took a socialist approach . After the early death of his father and a serious war injury as a war volunteer in World War I , he lived again in his parents' villa in Berlin, where he spent the summer together with other members of the so-called Westend district (including Hans Koch-Dieffenbach , Alfred Kurella ) Residential commune lived while the mother stayed in the country. Around 1914 this group, which brought together the left wing of the bourgeois youth movement , included Walter Benjamin , Ernst Joëll , the brothers Hans and Walter Koch, Hans Kollwitz , Erich Krems and Alexander Rustow , and in February 1917 also Hans Blüher , Kurt Hiller and Karl Jerosch , Jaap Kool and Friedrich Bauermeister . Klatt was probably the intellectual and journalistic engine of this union.

In view of their political endangerment and the general nutritional situation, Klatt took part in the construction of the Blankenburg settlement (today Nordendorf ) near Augsburg in 1918/19 . After a denunciation that the settlers were communists, he also spent a few days in prison.

Klatt completed the drawing teacher examination and married Edith Klatt, who later became a children's book author . Mischke and in 1919 took over the editing of the magazine Junge Menschen, published by Knud Ahlborn , for a short time . Until 1921 he worked intermittently at the Folkwang School in Hagen and at the same time did his doctorate at the Berlin University with his art-historical contributions to the history and representation of the mountains in Swiss painting .

From 1921 he founded the Prerow primary school in several steps . There he called his group together at the turn of the year 1924/25 in order to work out a memorandum on teacher training. He belonged to the advisory group of the Minister of Education, Carl Heinrich Becker . From 1925 he belonged to the Hohenrodter Bund . During this educational work, Klatt always remained connected to the youth movement . In 1930 he became a professor of education at the Pedagogical Academy in Hamburg and from 1930 to 1933, together with Paul Tillich and Eduard Heimann, published the Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus . In 1931 the so-called Prerower formula for free adult education was finally adopted.

After the seizure of power, Klatt ran into difficulties again due to a denunciation and in 1934 had to rename the elementary school home to “leisure and recreation home”. As such, it remained in existence until 1939, dispensing with political issues. He belonged to the circle around Anna von Gierke . In 1941/1942 Klatt then moved to Vienna, where he could hardly make a living from his lectures, the sale of paintings and the support of friends.

effect

He is considered to be the initiator of the professional policy discussion and, after he introduced the term leisure education in the 1920s , of modern leisure education.

Works

  • Jean Paul as herald of peace and freedom, 1919; 1947
  • The creative break, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena 1921, 3rd - 5th thousand 1922
  • Yes, no and still . Collected articles, Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Jena, 1924
  • Profession and Education, 1929
  • Leisure activities, 1929
  • The turning point of the machine age, 1930
  • Rainer Maria Rilke. His assignment today, 1936
  • Hans Carossa, 1937
  • Victory over fear, 1940
  • Forces of life. Laws of Mental Development, 1941
  • Greek Heritage, 1943
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Vienna 1948
  • Language and Responsibility, 1960
  • Biographical Notes, 1965

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Preuss, Lost Sons of the Bourgeoisie. Left currents in the German youth movement 1913-1919 , 1991
  2. ^ Anna M. Lazzarino Del Grosso: Poverty and wealth in the thinking of Gerhoh von Reichersberg . CH Beck, Munich 1973. p. 83.
  3. ↑ a b Ulrike Koch: "I found out about it from Fritz Klatt" - Käthe Kollwitz and Fritz Klatt . In: Käthe Kollwitz and her friends: Catalog for the special exhibition on the occasion of the 150th birthday of Käthe Kollwitz . Published by the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-8673-2282-9 , p. 65.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Scheibe, The Educational Reform Movement, 1900-1932 , 1999, p. 369
  5. ↑ Horst W. Opaschowski, Pedagogy of Free Life , 1996, p. 272
personal data
SURNAME Klatt, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reform pedagogue, writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1945
Place of death Vienna