Hartmut Zelinsky

Hartmut Zelinsky at the age of 18

Hartmut Zelinsky (born April 21, 1941 in Heiligenbeil / East Prussia ) is a German cultural scientist.

Zelinsky studied German , Sinology and political science in Erlangen , Frankfurt a. M . and Munich (among others with Hans-Joachim Schoeps , Hans Steininger , Hans Schwerte , Theodor W. Adorno , Max Horkheimer , Carlo Schmid , Otto Vossler , Heinz Otto Burger , Roger Bauer , Herbert Franke , Wolfgang Bauer , Eric Voegelin ). In 1971 he received his doctorate with a thesis on Hugo von Hofmannsthal . 1972–1988 he taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He lives as a literary and cultural scientist in Munich.

Works

Monographs

• Brahman and Basilisk. Hugo von Hofmannsthal's poetic system and his lyrical drama "The Emperor and the Witch" . Munich German Studies, Vol. 13. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 1974
• Richard Wagner - a German subject. A documentation on the history of the impact of Richard Wagner 1876 - 1976. (With respective comments on the listed image and text documents and the framework essay Richard Wagner and the consequences ). Two thousand and one, Frankfurt a. M. 1976, Medusa Verlag, Berlin, Vienna 1983, 3rd edition.
• Victory or Fall: Victory and Fall. Kaiser Wilhelm II., Richard Wagner's work idea and the »Welt-Kampf« . Keysersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Munich 1990

Articles and lectures

• Epilogue to a bibliophile edition - 100 numbered copies - of the Chandos letter from Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Herbert Post Press, Munich 1966.
• Thomas Bernhard's "Amras" and Novalis, with special consideration of his disease philosophy . In: Literature and Criticism , September 1966, and: About Thomas Bernhard , Frankfurt a. M. 1970 (edition suhrkamp 401).
• Article on Villa and Unification Through the Enemy by Rudolf Borchardt. In: Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon , Munich 1973.
• The "Conservative Revolution" with Thomas Mann and Hugo von Hofmannsthal . Lecture, German-Austrian Society, Vienna 1975.
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Asia . In: Roger Bauer et al. (Ed.): Fin de Siècle. On the literature and art of the turn of the century . Frankfurt a. M. 1977, pp. 508-566.
• Look at Richard Wagner and his heirs . In: Dietrich Mack (Hrsg.): Theater work on Wagner's Ring . Munich 1978, pp. 226-239.
• Richard Wagner's "fiery cure" or the "new religion" of redemption through "annihilation" . In: Richard Wagner - How anti-Semitic can an artist be? Music Concepts 5. Munich 1978, pp. 79–112.
• The »Path« of the »Blue Riders«. On Schönberg's dedication to Kandinsky in the "Harmonielehre" . In: Jelena Hahl-Koch (ed.): Correspondence between Schönberg and Kandinsky. Salzburg 1980, pp. 222-270; sa dtv 2883, Munich 1983.
• Richard Wagner's »Art and World View« and its criticism in contemporary caricatures . In: Klaus Herding, Gunter Otto (ed.): "Nervous collection organs of inner and outer life" - caricatures. (Symposium on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Aby Warburg's death in Hamburg 1979.) Gießen 1980, pp. 206-233.
• The »Plenipotentarius of Doom« or the claim to rule of the anti-Semitic art religion of the self-proclaimed Bayreuth savior Richard Wagner. Notes on Cosima Wagner's diaries 1869-1883 . (Written 1979) In: Neohelicon IX, 1, Budapest, Amsterdam 1982, pp. 145-176.
• Rescue into the vague. On Martin Gregor Dellin's Wagner biography . In: Richard Wagner - Parsifal . Music Concepts 25. Munich 1982, pp. 74–115.
• Richard Wagner's last card. Notes on the »Parsifal« stage dedication festival . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 24./25. July 1982. Again in: Attila Csampai, Dietmar Holland (Hrsg.): Richard Wagner: Parsifal. Texts, materials, comments . Reinbek 1984 (rororo 7809).
• »Spiegel« conversation: »A brutal ideology to beautiful sounds«. Wagner researcher Hartmut Zelinsky on Parsifal and its effects on Hitler and the Holocaust. In: Der Spiegel, July 19, 1982. Again in: Klaus Umbach (Hrsg.): Richard Wagner - A German annoyance . (Mirror book). Reinbek 1982, pp. 38-52.
• Richard Wagner's »Artwork of the Future« and his idea of ​​destruction . As a lecture European Forum Alpbach 1984. In: Joachim H. Knoll, Julius H. Schoeps (Hrsg.): Geschichtsprophetien im 19. und 20. Century . Stuttgart, Bonn 1984, pp. 84-106.
• The terrifying "awakening" and how to free Wagner from Hitler. In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , September 1983, pp. 9-16
• Article about Siegfried Lipiner. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 14, 1985.
• Hermann Levi and Bayreuth or Death as Grail Territory . In: Walter Grab (Ed.): Supplement 6 to the yearbook of the Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv 1984, pp. 309-353. Again in: Fono Forum , Issue 7–11, Munich 1985.
• Rudolf Borchardt's letters to a young pianist from the time of the Pisa book (1932/38). Lecture at the Rudolf Borchardt Colloquium in Grosseto. 2-6 April 1985.
• EYES WORLD EYES. Notes on the history and visual history of the gaze (with 66 examples). Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, June 1985.
• "But there is a country below ...". The Italian experience of German poets in the 19th century . Lecture at the 28th annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Geistesgeschichte e. V. "Travels and Travelers in the 19th Century", October 1985.
• Arnold Schönberg - the Wagner of God. Note on the life path of a German Jew from Vienna . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , April 1986
• The German slogan Siegfried or the "inner necessity" of the curse of the Jews in Richard Wagner's work . In: Udo Bermbach (ed.): In the rubble of one's own world. Hamburg lectures on Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" . Berlin, Hamburg 1989, pp. 187-236. Also in (k. Ud T .: The German slogan Siegfried): Wolfgang Storch (Hrsg.): Catalog »Die Nibelungen«. House of Art, Munich 1987.
• The conductor Hermann Levi. Notes on the repressed history of the Jewish Wagnerian . In: Manfred Treml, Josef Kirmeier (ed. And M. by Evamaria Brockhoff): History and culture of the Jews in Bavaria . House of Bavarian History, Munich 1988, pp. 411–430.
• Introduction to: Correspondence Gabriele von Koenig-Warthausen - Ernst Norlind 1931 - 1952 . Edited by Hartmut Zelinsky. Private print in Warthausen 1982.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II., Richard Wagner's work idea and the »world struggle« . In: John CG Röhl (ed.): Wilhelm II. And the system of the »personal regiment«: structures, limits, consequences . (Writings of the Historical College, Colloquia 17). Munich 1991.
• The confrontation with China in German literature since the turn of the century, especially the reception of Taoism . Lecture Shanghai, April 1989, Beijing, May 1989, Bonn, May 1990. Gek. ad T .: culture instead of power. China and Taoism Reception in German Literature of the 20th Century. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 18./19. May 1991.
• Hartmut Zelinsky and Stephan Reimertz discuss Richard Wagner. Facilitator: Wolfgang Müller (Dramaturgy Komische Oper). Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 1992.
• Critical Dances. For the 90th birthday of the dancer Claire Eckstein . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 8, 1994.
• "The Fuehrer's greatest opponent". Carl Wentzel-Teutschenthal, a forgotten resistance fighter . (On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death on December 20, 1944). In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 30, 1994
• Rudolf Borchardt and Wilhelm II. Lecture at the symposium of the Rudolf Borchardt Society in connection with the Literary Colloquium Berlin "Rudolf Borchardt and his contemporaries", 6. – 8. July 1995. Extended version: The Reich, the gaze of posterity and the enforcement of the enemy. Rudolf Borchardt's essay The Emperor from 1908 and his turn to politics . In: Ernst Osterkamp (ed.): Rudolf Borchardt and his contemporaries (=  sources and research on literary and cultural history. Volume 10 [244]). De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 978-3-11-015603-4 , pp. 281-333.
• Memories of Werner Kraft in Munich and Jerusalem . In: Werner Kraft 1896–1991. Edited by Jörg Drews. Marbacher Magazin 75/1996.
• Slow motion of the soul. Arnold Schönberg's short opera »Expectation« in a temporal context. Lecture on May 23, 1996 as part of the project: Vienna School by Giuseppe Sinopoli at the Saxon State Opera in Dresden. In: Arnold Schönberg - expectation. With contributions by Wolfgang Willaschek, Hartmut Zelinsky and Siegfried Maurer, 1996.
• Notes on Guido and Michael Grandt's »Black Book Anthroposophy. Rudolf Steiner's occult-racist worldview «. Unpublished article, 1996.
• Light heaviness. To Richard King's wood and marble sculptures . Lecture, Paros, September 20, 1997.
• Aby Warburg's cultural studies library as a laboratory of the mind. Lecture on June 20, 1997 in the Warburg House in Hamburg
• Sketch of ideas for a film about Fritz von Unruh (1885–1970). June 1998.
• The myth is out of the ordinary. Review of the book Wagner Theater by Nike Wagner. In: Die Weltwoche , July 30, 1998.
• Worlds of images. Winfried Tonner and the Roller family's artistic tradition. In: Winfried Tonner and the Roller family's artistic tradition. Catalog of the exhibition of the Adalbert Stifter Verein e. V., Munich, Museum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg 18. 4. – 16. 5. 1999 and Galerie Luzánky CVC, Brno / Brünn 1. 7. – 15. 8. 1999, pp. 10-26.
• Richard Wagner's »Bühnenweihfestspiel« »Parsifal« and his blood ideology. Elmau Castle, April 2, 1999.
• Decay, annihilation, world rapture. Richard Wagner's anti-Semitic work idea as an art religion and criticism of civilization and its dissemination until 1933. In: Saul Friedländer, Jörn Rüsen (ed.): Richard Wagner in the Third Reich. A Schloß Elmau symposium. Munich 2000, pp. 309-341.
• Essay on Volkmar (von) Zühlsdorff. Written for: John M. Spalek, Joseph Strelka (eds.): Project German-language exile literature since 1933, part of the volume New York 1995.
• "I am a booming only holy voice". On the ideological background of the association for private musical performances in Vienna founded and ruled by Arnold Schönberg in 1918. Oleg Kagan Music Festival, July 12, 2001.
• From Levi to Levine. On the trace of the Jewish Wagnerian in the history of Richard Wagner's impact. Symposium Wagner in context - art, ideology, politics. Tel Aviv University Institute for German History, November 13, 2001.
• On the "Conservative Revolution" in literature and among the artists R. Wagner, S. George, A. Schönberg, R. Borchardt, H. v. Hofmannsthal. Conference »Revolution from the Right?« Fascist and National Socialist tendencies in science, art and literature. Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, educational establishment of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Gumnmersbach 15. – 17. December 2002.
• Richard Wagner's blood ideology and annihilation anti-Semitism and its broad impact in Germany from the Wilhelminian era to the “Third Reich” Conference “Revolution from the Right?” Fascist and National Socialist tendencies in science, art and literature. Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, educational establishment of the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation, Gumnmersbach 15. – 17. December 2002.
• Theodor Sapper's “Chain Reaction Contra”: A novel as a “word requiem”. Epilogue to the novel "Chain Reaction Contra" by Theodor Sapper, edited by Hartmut Zelinsky. Salzburg 2006.
• Epilogue to: Peter Spiro: Only we are not back. Memories. Huerth 2010.
• Vienna and Wagner. In: Austrian Music Magazine No. 6, December 2012 ( online ).
• Richard Strauss 2014. In: Be silent, you voices! I didn't do it! To deal with Richard Strauss . Max Joseph. Münchner Opernfestspiele 2014, pp. 114–120 ( full version ).

Awards

• Culture Award Regensburg 1981