Jakob Overmans

Jakob Overmans (born January 26, 1874 in Breyell , † August 15, 1945 in Cairo ), also written Overmanns , was a Catholic publicist and university professor .

Overmans joined the Jesuit order at the turn of the century and developed into one of the most important reporters for international cultural developments in the milieu of Catholic journalism. In the Weimar Republic, with around 80 articles, he was the most productive contributor to the German Jesuit magazine Voices of the Time in the fields of literature, theater, film, art and architecture. He represented conservative and culture-critical views and warned against an "Americanization of the spirit". As a professor at the Sophia University in Tokyo and the Imperial University of Tokyo (1924–1928) and as a professor at the Jesuit University Valkenburg in the Netherlands (since 1929), he has mainly European literature from Shakespeare to Cervantes and Goethe to the present informed. He was a colleague of Joseph Dahlmann at the Sophia University and one of the teachers of the resistance fighter against National Socialism Alfred Delp .

Fonts (selection)

• Hamlet, Don Quixote, Germany. In: Voices of the Time 46 (1916), pp. 38–46.
• Novels, theater and cinema in the new Germany. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 1920.
• The new Japan in its fine arts. In: Voices of the Time 107 (1927), pp. 464–467.
• Subject and classification of the scientific history of literature. Tokyo 1927.
• "Urfaust" and "Faust" by Goethe. Tokyo 1928.
• Americanization of the mind. In: Voices of the Time 118 (1930), pp. 161–173.

literature

• Roman lead stone : Alfred Delp: story of a witness. Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Guido Müller: European social relations after the First World War. The Franco-German Study Committee and the European Cultural Association. Munich 2005.
• Michel Grunewald u. Uwe Puschner (ed.): The Catholic intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and its networks (1871-1963) / Le milieu intellectuel catholique en Allemagne, sa presse et ses réseaux (1871-1963). Bern, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2006.