Fritz Schranz

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Fritz Schranz (born April 4, 1930 in Munich ; † April 2, 2016 in Trostberg ) was a German philosopher and action artist .

Life

Schranz graduated from high school in economics in 1948, then studied mathematics and physics and worked as a high school teacher for several years. However, his preference was philosophy . He heard lectures from Aloys Wenzl , Hermann Krings and Fritz Leist . His mentor was the Catholic theologian Aloys Goergen . Together with him and other companions, Schranz built a seminar building on Lake Walchensee in which liturgical experiments were carried out in a modern, but not ecclesiastically permitted way: Mass in German, Eucharist in two forms, a table as an altar, dance at communion. Schranz composed new songs and studied dances for these celebrations. Visits to the Protestant theologian Rudolf Bultmann and the playwright Samuel Beckett served to expand his work theologically and dramatically . In the conversation Bultmann said: "I can see that you are someone who doesn't want to believe anything ..."

After a dissent with his mentor Goergen, Schranz founded the “Peterskirchen Artists Colony” with some friends in the 1960s. His life partner Gottliebe Gräfin von Lehndorff , the mother of actress Veruschka von Lehndorff and widow of the member in the resistance circle from July 20, 1944 , Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff , bought the old rectory in Peterskirchen , near Wasserburg am Inn , a listed, two-story mansard roof building from the 18th century, where Fritz Schranz organized his actions and his courses in art and philosophy for almost 30 years. Numerous artists were guests or worked there during the student movement: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Ingrid Caven and Hanna Schygulla , among others , who lived there for 13 years. Friedrich Gulda lived on the site for two weeks in a trailer and studied concerts. Peterskirchen became a discussion forum and the southern German art scene came and went, including Peter Zadek , Uschi Obermaier , Rainer Langhans , Thomas Bernhard , the actor Hanns Zischler, as well as film producers and Swiss film directors. The longest lived there - next to Schranz - the sculptor and painter and former percussionist of the group Amon Düül , Holger Trülzsch , Vera von Lehndorff's friend.

In the course of more than 30 years, Schranz has organized around 300 action art events at home and abroad with texts by great philosophers (including by Protagoras , Plato , Aristotle , Immanuel Kant , Friedrich Nietzsche , Edmund Husserl , Martin Heidegger, and writers like Friedrich Hölderlin and Franz Kafka ). Schranz invented actions for these and his own texts that reflected the texts in the form of scenarios. The scenarios were made from foils, fabrics, cardboard boxes, aluminum plates, plexiglass, styrofoam and wooden poles. During the choreographies performed with music, the participants wore self-made action clothes. Greek islands, deserts, dried up river valleys, former monasteries, churches and ancient ruins formed the dramaturgical background.

In 1996 he married Anne Luthardt, with whom he undertook joint activities in Peterskirchen and while traveling, and who edited his writings and books. Matthias Luthardt documented their last joint action in his film The Great Evolution .

effect

  • 1979, “Duineser Theaterversuche”, Duino (Italy): In a 10-day action event with the theme “Being and Nothing”, texts by Heidegger and Sartre in collaboration with Walter Haupt (music) in a crater made of dead branches “ Nothing scaffolding ”and a“ being frame ”built from iron bars. Every participant in the action was pulled up on it and experienced being, floating in the UV light. 300 people took part in the “Destruction of Nothing” campaign.
  • 1983, “Festival of Existence”, Volterra (Italy): 1500 people took part in the actions. The themes of “Fate” and “The Way”, meaning the journey through life, were presented in the Piazza dei Priori using choreographies with flexible tubes and a 60-meter long path glued together from plastic sheeting.
  • 1992, “The Peace Celebration” by Friedrich Hölderlin, Sveti Petar u Sumi (Croatia), a 14-day action event with professors from the Academy for Science and Art, Ljubljana: In the middle of the war, seven actions in the ruins of the monastery - “The simple "," Hope reddened the cheeks "," The smoking valley "," The suspecting soul "," The golden fruit "," The prince of the festival "and" The flame in hands "-" The peace celebration "presented by Friedrich Hölderlin and experienced.

In the course of his life, Schranz made around 300 such action events.

Publications

Schranz described the course of such actions in the books he published:

  • The psalm singing in German . In: Hermann Kern (Hrsg.), Friedrich Piel (Hrsg.), Hans Wichmann (Hrsg.): Time and hour: Festschrift Aloys Goergen . Mäander, Falkenberg, 1985, ISBN 3-882193409 .
  • And full of wild roses , Fouqué-Verlag, Egelsbach, Frankfurt, Washington, 1997, ISBN 3-8267-4050-5 .
  • The world formula U = P , Pro Business, Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86805-415-6 .
  • Fresh shine: A new understanding of the world and people , 2011, Pro Business, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86805-868-0 .
  • Different than before: A new understanding of the world and people , BookRix, 2015 ISBN 978-3-73688618-6 .

Most recently, Fritz Schranz worked on a book entitled “Der homo individualis”. It should explain the scope and background of the cultural work he has done.

literature

  • Klaus Puhl: Self-confidence in analytical philosophy. Philosophy choreographer. A portrait of the artist philosopher Fritz Schranz . In: Information Philosophie 4/2000, Claudia Moser, Lörrach 2000.

Movies

Matthias Luthardt (director): The great evolution , documentation about the artist and philosopher Fritz Schranz, with: Fritz Schranz, Anne Luthardt-Schranz, Gottliebe Lehndorff, Vera Lehndorff, Hanna Schygulla and others, 89 min. Blu-ray, DVD, 2015 The world premiere took place on July 12, 2015 at the fsk Kino on Oranienplatz in Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice from April 5, 2016 in the Passauer Neue Presse.
  2. ↑ Harry Wassmann, Jakob Matthias Osthof, Anna-Elisabeth Bruckhaus: Rudolf Bultmann (1884–1976): Estate Directory , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2001, p. 174.
  3. ↑ Antje Vollmer : Double life: Heinrich and Gottliebe von Lehndorff in the resistance against Hitler , Volume 309 of Die Other Bibliothek , Aufbau Verlag, 2014 ISBN 978-3-84775309-4 .
  4. ^ Internet site of the German Liturgical Institute .
  5. ↑ The great evolution on french-exit.de
  6. ↑ Going out tip: “The great evolution” . In: BZ Berlin from July 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Great Evolution" . In: Indiekino Magazin.
personal data
SURNAME Schranz, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and action artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2016
Place of death Trostberg