Heino Gehrts

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Heino Gehrts

Heino Gehrts (born June 9, 1913 in Hamburg ; † October 10, 1998 in Alt Mölln ) was a German researcher of fairy tales , myths and legends who also dealt with the phenomena of somnambulism (light sleep) and obsession in connection with this activity and the topic of the ghost - spirits - and dead phenomena dealt.

Life

Heino Gehrts attended the upper secondary school on the Ulenhorst in Hamburg, graduated from high school in 1933 and then studied chemistry for six semesters at the University of Hamburg . Then he changed subjects and studied philosophy , German and physics as a minor .

When the war broke out, Heino Gehrts was drafted, but was initially released again for the thesis "Eternity and death in Jean Paul's attitude to life", which he passed in 1939.

As a soldier (radio operator in the infantry), he traveled from France via Russia to Italy. Thanks to his work in a Turkestan company, he gained insights into the nature of Asian ethnic groups, which later became helpful to him in his work on the fairy tale .

In Italy he was taken prisoner of war as a sergeant and was brought to Arizona . In autumn 1947 he was released from captivity via England.

In the period after that, short stories and translations from English were created that appeared in magazines and newspapers. He later worked as a freelance writer.

In the fifties he got to know the English biography of the Hopi Indian chief Don C. Talayesva, probably in the Amerika-Haus in Hamburg. He translated the book into German and thereby delved into the myths and rites of the Hopi Indians. That was the beginning of his decades of striving for the essence of shamanism .

A stay in Hohenlohe in 1958 made him discover an unbroken oral tradition about a ghostly apparition (around 1831) in a peasant family. The processing of this tradition, the associated diaries, files and the like resulted in the book "The Girl of Orlach" and the detailed study of Justinus Kerner and his time.

This was probably the beginning of the path that led Heino Gehrts to the discovery of astonishing “correspondences between fairy tale statements and archaic states of experience” and to “shamanistic fairy tale research”. His subject of research was the special reality of magic tales . Over the years he found a forum for much of his work in the European Fairy Tale Society . There he gave lectures that were published in the annual editions.

From the age of eight he increasingly dealt with the subject of death, and his interest in legends pushed the fairy tales somewhat into the background.

meaning

Heino Gehrts, in his preoccupation with the genre of magical fairy tales, led fairy tale research in this area out of the isolation of a special field and gave it far-reaching universality.

He extended the research into fairy tales to the most varied areas of knowledge, which in the sciences may be far apart, but in reality are closely related. It is precisely the unconventional links between complex findings that make his research results so interesting for questions relating to the current world encounter.

Coming from philosophy and German studies , Heino Gehrts gave completely new impulses to fairy tale research , which verifiably have an effect on philosophy, for example by philosophically expanding his clarification of the connection between the origin of fairy tales and cultural reality to include the observation that the origin of fairy tales and receptivity for them depends on the level of development of consciousness both of the individual and of human society. This could explain why fairy tales were created in all parts of the world, why they are similar in structure and content, and why children in a certain development phase take the fairy tales with great attention.

The aim of his work was to show the meaningful context of the events discussed with the whole of life. In this way, for example, he achieved unique interpretations of the two great Indian epics, the "Mahābārata" and the "Rāmājana" for the German-speaking world.

Works

Books

  • Translation: Don C. Talayesva "Sonnenhäuptling Sitzende Rispe" (Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1964)
  • The girl from Orlach ( Ernst Klett Verlag , Stuttgart 1966)
  • The fairy tale and the victim (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1967)
  • Mahābārata. The event and its meaning (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1975)
  • Rāmājana. Brothers and Bride in a fairy tale epic (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1977)
  • Hans Findeisen / Heino Gehrts: The Shamans: Hunting Helpers and Counselors, Soul Riders, Heralds and Healers (Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Cologne 1983)
  • On the reality of fairy tales (Erich Röth Verlag, Regensburg 1992)
  • Writings on research into fairy tales, myths and legends - Collected essays 1 "Aspects of fairy tale research" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86815-588-4 )
  • Writings on research into fairy tales, myths and legends - collected essays 2 "Justinus Kerner and the Age of Enlightenment" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86815-700-0 )
  • Writings on researching fairy tales, myths and legends - collected essays 3 "Initiation, initiation rituals and essential phenomena" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86815-707-9 )
  • Writings on research into fairy tales, myths and legends - Collected essays 4 "The 'other' world and wisdom" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-86815-715-4 )
  • Writings on research into fairy tales, myths and legends - Collected essays 5 "The world of fairy tales" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86815-726-0 )
  • Writings on research into fairy tales, myths and legends - Collected essays 6 "From the world of fairy tales to the world of legends" (Igel Verlag, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-86815-733-8 )

Articles from the yearbook of the European Fairy Tale Society

  • Narrative majority and narrative flow (Volume 4: "Märchenerzähler Narrative Communities" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1983)
  • The forest (Volume 7: "The world in fairy tales" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1984)
  • The Klappfelsen (Volume 7: "The World in a Fairy Tale" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1984)
  • Shamanistic elements in magic fairy tales (Volume 10: "Shamanism and Magic Tales" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1986)
  • The fairy tale of the shoes being danced to pieces (Volume 10: "Shamanism and Magic Tales" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1986)
  • Escape and linger (Volume 13: "The time in fairy tales" - Erich Röth Verlag, Kassel 1989)
  • About death and dead in the primitive cultures (Volume 16: "Death and Change in Fairy Tales" - Erich Röth Verlag, Regensburg 1991)
  • From the origin of a fairytale world (Volume 19: "Fairy tales and creation" - Erich Röth Verlag, Regensburg 1993)
  • Magical Science - Superstition (Volume 23: "Magic Fairy Tales" - Eugen Diederichs Verlag, Munich 1998)

Articles from the magazine "Gorgo"

  • The sacrifice of the couple who are connected as a father (Verlag Adolf Bonz, Fellbach-Oeffingen, issue 1/1979)
  • Polytheism - Discussion (Verlag Adolf Bonz, Fellbach-Oeffingen, issue 2/1979)
  • The Somnambule von Weilheim (Verlag Adolf Bonz, Fellbach-Oeffingen, Issue 3/1980)
  • Genius of youth and critical statehood (Verlag Adolf Bonz, Fellbach-Oeffingen, issue 6/1981)
  • Initiation (Verlag Adolf Bonz, Fellbach-Oeffingen, issue 8/1982)
  • On the essence of stones (Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich, issue 11/1986)
  • From the world tree to the burning tree - the cultural development in the feeling of security (Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich, issue 13/1987)
  • On behalf of the tree - considerations on the origin of the rod tradition (Schweizer Spiegel Verlag, Zurich, issue 15/1988)

Articles from the "Hestia" yearbook of the Klages Society

  • On the essence of the spear (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, born 1984/1985)
  • Justinus Kerner and Ludwig Klages, two discoverers of the reality of the soul (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, born 1988/1989)
  • On a slow train through Polygapo (Bouvier Verlag, Bonn, born 1994/1995)

Articles from the magazine "Märchenspiegel"

  • On the meaning of blood brotherhood (Haag + Herchen Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, issue 4/1993)
  • The girl without hands (Publishing office Wolfgang Kuhlmann, issue 4/1995)
  • The unfaithful mother (Verlag Wolfgang Kuhlmann, issue: anniversary edition April 1995)
  • The mother in the shackle of fate (Verlagsbüro Wolfgang Kuhlmann, issue 4/1996)
  • The fairy tale of the postponed dragon fight (Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler, issue 1/1997)
  • The Marienkind - was it really wrong (Schneider Verlag Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler, issue 2/1997)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b quoted from Diether Röth, "Obituary" in "Märchenspiegel 1/99 - February 1999", p. 11
  2. ↑ a b European Fairy Tale Society e. V.
  3. ↑ Klages-Gesellschaft Marbach e. V.
  4. ↑ Der Märchenspiegel ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maerchen-stiftung.de
personal data
SURNAME Gehrts, Heino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German researcher of fairy tales, myths and legends
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1998
Place of death Alt Mölln