Jürgen Teller (philosopher)

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Jürgen Teller (born September 12, 1926 in Döbeln , † June 10, 1999 in Leipzig ) (pseudonym Theodor Heim ) was a German philosopher , Germanist and publisher's editor .

Life

As the son of a doctor and a nurse, Teller passed his Abitur in 1949 after being wounded as a war volunteer (1945) and subsequently being a prisoner of war (1946–47) in Döbeln and became a member of the SED . 1949–54 he studied history , German literature and philosophy with Ernst Bloch , Hans Mayer and Walter Markov at the University of Leipzig . In 1951 he became the 1st enrolled student at Bloch, his assistant assistant in the same year and his assistant from 1954 to 1957.

After Ernst Bloch's forced retirement in 1957 because of allegations of revisionism , Teller was expelled from the SED in 1958, dismissed from the university and sent to production on probation . In the iron and steel works in Leipzig , he suffered a serious accident at work and lost his left arm.

Since 1961 Teller worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Folk Art Research , Leipzig . After Bloch moved to the FRG in 1962, the doctoral procedure was discontinued by the University of Leipzig. From 1964 Teller was a lecturer at Reclam-Verlag . Here he supervised u. a. the editions of Thomas More (1974), Giordano Bruno (1984) and Ernst Bloch (1987). The latter was delivered without Teller's afterword.

In 1967 he successfully completed his doctorate at the Humboldt University in Berlin on a folklore topic. In 1978, Teller moved to the Institute for Classical German Literature at the National Research and Memorial Sites (NFG) in Weimar . From 1986 to 1990 he was chief editor for German studies at the Kiepenheuer publishing group in Leipzig.

After the Peaceful Revolution in 1989 and German reunification in 1990, it was fully rehabilitated . In 1991 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Leipzig (assistant Elke Uhl ) under Rector Cornelius Weiss . In 1992 he became a founding member and board member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Leipzig .

Jürgen Teller died on June 10, 1999 in the trade fair city and was buried in the southern cemetery in Leipzig with great sympathy .

Jürgen Teller had been with the Leipzig art historian Johanna Teller , born in 1955 . Hennig (sister of Angelika Hennig, Werner Tübke's second wife) married and father of two children.

The Teller couple were close friends with the Ernst Blochs family and a large group of East German intellectuals : Volker Braun , Christoph Hein , Friedrich Dieckmann , Reiner Kunze , Sigrid Damm , Hubert Witt and others. a.

Quotes

"The philosophy of hope , which believed itself to be linked to Marxism and opened up a vast horizon for it, was rightly seen as a betrayal of the unspeakable mediocrity of its trustees at the time."

Fonts

  • Attempt at the philosophical determination of natural qualities. Leipzig 1961. (not published)
  • Marx et al. Engels on folk art. Leipzig 1966.
  • Bloch's atheism. In: Siegfried Unseld (Ed.): Bloch to honor. Frankfurt am Main 1965. (under Ps. Theodor Heim)
  • Ernst Bloch. A home for the philosopher. In: V. Hauschild (Ed.): The great Leipzig. Leipzig 1996.

As editor

  • with Curt Woyte: Thomas More : About the best state of the state and about the new island of Utopia. Leipzig 1976.
  • with Friedrich Dieckmann : Ernst Bloch Many chambers in the world house. Frankfurt am Main 1994.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Christoph Rauh:  Jürgen Teller . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Teller, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Theodor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chub
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1999
Place of death Leipzig