Fritz Philippi
Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm (Fritz) Philippi (born January 5, 1869 in Wiesbaden ; † February 20, 1933 in the express train from Freiburg to Wiesbaden) was a German pastor and writer from Hessen-Nassau .
Life
Philippi was born the son of a master locksmith in Wiesbaden. He studied Protestant theology in Berlin, Tübingen and Marburg and was ordained in Wiesbaden in 1894 . In 1889 he became a member of the Strasbourg fraternity Arminia zu Tübingen . Until 1895 he was vicar in Freiendiez , then until July 1897 parish administrator of St. Peter bei Diez . In 1897 he took up his first job as parish priest in Breitscheid in the Dill district. He stayed there until 1904. Then he went back to St. Peter bei Diez, where he worked as a parish chaplain until 1911. From 1911, with a three-and-a-half year break due to military service in World War I , he was pastor at the Ringkirche and regional church councilor in Wiesbaden until his death.
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Philippi worked as a writer in addition to his pastoral office. He wrote poems, dramas and stories, published sermons, commented on time issues and also criticized his church superiors. Even if the relationship between man and God is thematized in many of his works and a pastor appears as the protagonist, he was not a religious poet in the narrower sense.
In his shorter prose pieces from Breitscheid's time, Philippi describes the living conditions of the rural population in the High Westerwald on the threshold of the industrial age. Small farmers, potters, migrant workers and millers, eccentricities and religious enthusiasts are the main actors in actions whose drama unfolds from the harshness of everyday life, from the struggle for existence in a region that was called "Nassau Siberia" because of its inhospitable nature. Philippi depicts the country and its people with realistic, sometimes expressionistic stylistic devices and psychological insight. His stories from the Diez penitentiary , where from 1904 onwards looking after the prisoners was one of his duties as pastor of St. Peter, bring the need and hope of the people to the fore without adopting a moralizing or flat tone. The critical liberality of his attitude towards criminal justice and the penal system and his humanistic view of man contradict the prevailing opinion of the time.
After the last edition of Tales by Philippi in 1929, his work was in danger of being forgotten. A differentiated processing of Philippi's literary work is still pending. In November 2008, Philippi's Westerwald stories appeared again for the first time in almost 80 years.
Works (selection)
- Out of silence , poems, Eugen Salzer, Heilbronn 1901
- Jeremia , Drama, Eugen Salzer, Heilbronn 1905
- Human song , poems, Eugen Salzer, Heilbronn 1906
- Under the long roofs , stories from the Westerwald, Eugen Salzer, Heilbronn 1906
- Auf der Insel , Zuchthausgeschichten, Buchverlag der Hilfe, 1910
- Adam Notmann , Roman, Grote, Berlin 1916
- Wendelin Wolf , Roman, Gotthelf-Verlag, Bern-Leipzig 1917
- Auf der Hohen Heide , Bauerngeschichten, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1921
- Erdrecht , Roman, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1922
- No man's land , Union, Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1923
- From the pastor Mathias Hirsekorn and his people , autobiographical, JJ Weber, Leipzig 1924 (1937: No. 25 in the weaver's library )
- Belial , Drama, Bucherstube am Museum, Wiesbaden 1924
- Pastor Hirsekorn's prison brothers , autobiographical, JJ Weber, Leipzig 1925 (1937: No. 26 in the weaver's library)
- From the Westerwald , Gesammelte Erzählungen, Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, 1927
- The spiritual ghost , stories from the Westerwald, edited and provided with an afterword by Johann Peter, Nomen-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-939816-07-2
Honors
In the local district Wiesbaden-Rheingauviertel is Fritz-Philippi street named after him. The center school in Breitscheid has been named after the poet since 1998 .
literature
- Wilhelm Knevels: Fritz Philippi as a religious poet , Verlag Adolf Klein, Leipzig, 1929
- Karl Weckerling: Fritz Philippi , in: Nassauische Lebensbilder, Volume 2, Wiesbaden 1942
- Reinhold Kuhlmann: Fritz Philippi and his Westerwald-Gemeinde , in: Heimatbeilage to the Dill-Zeitung No. 1, 1943
- Ludwig Rühle: Fritz Philippi - the pastor and poet in Breitscheid, Freiendiez and Wiesbaden, on his hundredth birthday in 1969 , in: Heimatjahrbuch für den Dillkreis 12, 1969
- Marita Metz-Becker: Fritz Philippi - not just a local poet , in: Nassauische Annalen 102, 1991
- Heiner Feldhoff: About the poet of the Westerwald Fritz Philippi , in: Literary travel guide Rhineland-Palatinate, ed. by Josef Zierden, Brandes & Apsel 2001,
- Helmut Groos: The Westerwald poet Fritz Philippi , in: Heimatjahrbuch für den Dillkreis, 2008
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 539-540.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Philippi in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1927/28. Frankfurt am Main 1928, p. 386.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Philippi, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Philippi, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1933 |
| Place of death | between Freiburg and Wiesbaden in the express train |