Hellmuth Falkenfeld

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Hellmuth Falkenfeld (born March 21, 1893 in Fürstenwalde / Spree ; died 1954 in New York City ) was a German philosopher and radio play author .

Life

Hellmuth Falkenfeld's father Max was a social democratic lawyer. In 1929 he and his wife Margarethe attempted suicide , which she survived. In 1902 the family moved to Frankfurt an der Oder , where Hellmuth Falkenfeld attended school; Klabund was one of his school friends . Even in his childhood, Falkenfeld experienced everyday anti-Semitism in the German population. In 1913 he wrote the plays Elagabal. Funeral song in four acts at the Stadttheater Cottbus and Alkestis. Mourning song premiered in a prelude and four acts at the Stadttheater in Frankfurt an der Oder. He volunteered in 1914 as a volunteer in the First World War , although he was a pacifist . He received the EK I and the Wound Badge and was deployed to the War Ministry in Berlin after being wounded.

Falkenfeld studied law and philosophy in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Berlin , where he wrote his dissertation The Relationship of Time and Reality with Kant and Bergson for Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

Falkenfeld was married to Ilse Ehrenfeld (or Ehrenfried) for the first time; they had a daughter born in 1917.

After the war he worked as a lecturer at adult education centers in Berlin. He was the author of radio plays and made philosophical contributions to the emerging radio. He wrote feature articles for the Vossische Zeitung , the Frankfurter Zeitung , Die Weltbühne and for the Diary .

Falkenfeld became a member of the SPD . On February 15, 1924, he resigned from the Jewish community. His friends included Norbert Einstein , Max Pallenberg and Erwin Panofsky .

Falkenfeld divorced in 1926 and married the photographer Suse Byk in 1927 . Suse Byk ran a photo studio on Kurfürstendamm . Both stayed in Berlin after the Nazis took power in 1933, and she was able to continue working under the conditions of anti-Semitism , while he was dismissed from the adult education center for racist reasons. Under the weight of political pressure, they gave up in 1938 and sold their business at Aryanization prices .

On October 19, 1938, Suse and Hellmuth Falkenfeld emigrated via Rotterdam to London , where he saw his daughter again, and from there to New York . When the war broke out, he reported to work as a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital , which he kept after the war. He was killed in a car accident in 1954.

Suse Byk lived in New York on E 98th street, No. 19, where she died on September 10, 1943.

Fonts

  • The earth a kingdom of heaven. Drama in five acts. Oesterheld, Berlin 1933 (typewriter).
  • Philosophy as science and the question of knowledge. Meiner, Leipzig 1927.
  • Introduction to philosophy. German Book Community, Berlin 1926.
  • What is Kant to us? A call for the 200th anniversary of his birthday. E. Lichtenstein, Weimar 1924.
  • Philosophers for and against the revolution. The Neue Geist Verlag Dr. P. Reinhold, Weimar 1923. Again Göttingen 1950.
  • The relationship between time and reality in Kant and Bergson. Phil. Diss., Berlin 1918.
  • The meaning of the military collapse. Leaflet, 6 pages. Tiedemann & Uzielli, Frankfurt am Main 1918.
  • On the meaning of the art of acting: An investigation into the art of Max Pallenberg. With four pictures by Charlotte Berend . F. Lehmann, Charlottenburg 1918.
  • The Music of Battles: Essays on the Philosophy of War. Reuss & Itta, Constance 1916.
  • Word and Soul: An Inquiry into the Laws of Poetry. Meiner, Leipzig 1913.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Falkenfeld, Hellmuth. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors , Volume 6, 1998, pp. 478–481.
  2. ↑ Katrin Asmussen, Andrea Djuren, Ilse Heinken, Nicole Hummel, Esther Schwarz: The harmonious generation. In: Ursula Blömer , Detlef Garz (Hrsg.): "We children had a wonderful life ..." Jewish childhood and youth in the Empire 1871-1918 . Oldenburg 2000, p. 182 ff. Annotated excerpts from the autobiography
  3. ↑ a b c Obituary and photo , in: Aufbau , November 12, 1954, p. 7
  4. ↑ a b c d e Short biography , in: Ursula Blömer, Detlef Garz: (Ed.): "We children had a wonderful life ..." Jewish childhood and youth in the Empire 1871-1918 . Oldenburg 2000, p. 274 f.
  5. ↑ a b Ilse Ehrenfeld In: Lemma Polly Tieck. In: Renate Wall (Ed.): Lexicon of German-speaking women writers in exile . Kore, Freiburg 1995, pp. 173f
  6. ↑ Ilse Ehrenfried In: Lemma Juan Aufrichtig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss , (Ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol I Munich: Saur 1980, p. 26
  7. ^ Falkenfeld , Directory of Radio Contributions, at the German Broadcasting Archive
  8. ↑ a b c d Christiane Kuhlmann : Moving body - mechanical apparatus. On the media entanglement of dance and photography in the 1920s using the examples of Charlotte Rudolph, Suse Byk and Lotte Jacobi . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2003. Diss. Bochum 2001, pp. 99–110
    Kuhlmann did not reveal the identity, for her his name is Hans Falkenfeld and was a doctor of journalism and writer.
personal data
SURNAME Falkenfeld, Hellmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and radio play author
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenwalde / Spree
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death New York City