Johannes Ernst Seiffert

Johannes Ernst Seiffert (born July 7, 1925 in Berlin ; † November 15, 2009 in Kassel ) was a German philosopher and educator .

Life

Johannes Ernst Seiffert graduated from the Humboldt School in Berlin-Tegel in 1943 . His parents were part of the so-called inner emigration . They were neither NSDAP members nor in the resistance, but were in contact with those persecuted for racist or political reasons. In the so-called "final battle" for Berlin he was deployed together with other young people and deserted. The experiences of the end of the war were shocking key experiences for the 19-year-old and contributed significantly to his political and professional determination.

Johannes Ernst Seiffert studied intermittently at the Universities of Prague (1944), Göttingen (1945–1950), the Pedagogical Institute Darmstadt in Seeheim-Jugenheim (1951), the Universities of Freiburg (1951 and 1952); Marburg (1955) and again Freiburg (1961 and 1962); Philosophy with Nicolai Hartmann , Georg Mich , Eugen Fink , Martin Heidegger ; Educational studies with Herman Nohl , Friedrich Trost ; Eugen Fink; Sociology with Ludwig Neundörfer (sociography), Wolfgang Abendroth (political sociology) and Arnold Bergstraesser (cultural sociology); Psychology with Johann Peter Ruppert (social psychology), Robert Heiss and Hans Bender , as well as literary studies, music and theater studies.

After 1945, JE Seiffert got involved with the scouts (DPB successor under construction), later tried to rebuild Eberhard Koebel's ("Tusk") youth organization dj.1.11 in close reference to Tusk's designs together with Fred Hess (German Freischar Nürnberg) (Seiffert led until 1963 the Kassel dj.1.11 group; there were occasional contacts with members of the Stuttgart Rominshorde and the Maulbronn circle around Fritz Jeremias, called Muschik, and dj.1.11 Moringen). In the meantime he was active in social education training. The youth and adult education component of his work and studies was also reflected in the topic of his dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (1962): The educational aspect in Martin Buber's Hasidic anecdotes (Takatsuki, Kyoto 1963).

From 1962 to 1970 Seiffert was a lecturer for German language and literature in Japan , first at the University of Kyoto , then at the University of Hirosaki . First works for radio and publications on Walter Benjamin followed .

In 1972 he moved to Göttingen with his first family and worked at the Göttingen University of Education. In Göttingen he founded a group of the Revolutionary Communist Youth (RKJ), the youth organization of the Trotskyist group of International Marxists . In 1973 he divorced his first Japanese wife and accepted a professorship at the newly emerging Kassel University (today: University of Kassel ). There he was one of the initiators of the Rosenzweig Professorship and co-founder of the FIU Kassel, together with his partner, the poet Roswitha Seiffert (1978). He continued the “Cultural Incitement” project, which among other things tried to set modern European poetry to music ( suggested by Mikis Theodorakis ). In 1991 he founded the Philosophical Practice Witzenhausen and edited the aperiodic bulletin philosophique ( ISSN  1437-5168 ) , which appeared from 1999 to 2003 . In 1991/1992 he volunteered in the endeavors to establish a cultural studies course at the new Potsdam University . He participated in projects with Berlin and Brandenburg artists and students.

Fonts

• The educational element in Martin Buber's Hasidic anecdotes , dissertation Freiburg i. B., 1962
• Zengakuren; University and Resistance in Japan , Trikont, Munich, 1969 (Writings on Class Struggle, No. 13).
• Pedagogy of sensitization. Kübler, Lampertheim 1975, ISBN 978-3921265109 .
• Auschwitz as the present. An attempt at rethinking. Workshop, Kassel 1981.
• Eberhard Köbel's design. Workshop, Kassel 1982, ISBN 978-3887529895 .
• with Roswitha Seiffert: tusk for adults. Workshop, Kassel 1985.
• Walter Benjamin as a teacher of German identity. In: Lorenz Jäger, Thomas Regehly (ed.): Read what was never written. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 1992.
• Five fingers full of sand. Brandenburg hand oracle. AIGN, Witzenhausen 1996, ISBN 978-3931343019 .
• Volumes of poetry Die Erde leads a bee in the coat of arms and light salt under the pseudonym IOANN, AIGN 1998, ISBN 978-3931343095 , and 2004: Editionsplan 2010: To the crisis of teaching , corridor lectures: Cultural incitement ...
• bulletin philosophique No. XX and XXI.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Ernst Seiffert in the catalog of the German National Library