Hugo Schultz (Author)

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Hugo Schultz (born November 24, 1933 in Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz ) is a German writer .

life and work

Hugo Schultz studied German and geography in Heidelberg , Munich and Mainz . Before his retirement, he taught his subjects German and geography at several high schools and comprehensive schools. Schultz lives in Impflingen .

Hugo Schultz's work essentially consists of the Spiegelgasse tetralogy:

Part 1: Goethe's murder. This critical Goethe novel is about how and why the friendship between Goethe and Lenz, the first and most important poets of Sturm und Drang, broke up: in Strasbourg they had become close friends, called each other brothers, fell in love with the same woman, and wrote similar dramas . When Goethe went to court in Weimar, he had Lenz, who had followed him, expelled from the country. His mind became confused.

Part 2: In Brother Lenz, two women and a man embark on a literary journey through time in the footsteps of Lenz, Goethe and Büchner. They want to find out whether Büchner suspected what drove Lenz crazy and they propose theses about how Büchner would have designed his unfinished novella Lenz if he had had the time.

Part 3: The biographical novel A Büchnerspiel Georg Büchner wants to show a side that has so far been neglected. He was not only a progressive fighter against the aristocratic society that ruled in Germany, but in France he was also involved in conservative circles. Büchner was also not the staunch atheist he is usually portrayed as, but someone who lacked God, someone who ultimately believed he had found God.

Part 4: The author investigates a double question in the novel A Rift in Creation: What is this rift in creation about and what holds the world together at its core? He is looking for an answer from Büchner, Goethe, Lenz and Hugo Ball, who have stayed in Zurich's Spiegelgasse for a more or less long time. He also asks the basic question: Does God exist and if so, why does he not help?

In the biographical novel Die Schattenheilige the author tells the tragic life story of the Dominican Susanne Schultz. She was a student and colleague of Edith Stein. In her philosophical and theological studies she developed an image of God that deviated from the church: An immaterial God needs people because he can only experience joy, suffering and finitude through them. As a nun, she suffered from the fact that her belief was alien to her, she became ill and, allegedly insane, gassed and burned during the Nazi era.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Hugo Schultz in: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2002/2003 , Walter De Gruyter, 2003, page 1111
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Herxheim near Landau / Pfalz , Landau in the Palatinate