Johannes Pfeiffer (writer)

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Johannes Pfeiffer (born June 26, 1902 in Guatemala , † February 20, 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German writer, literary scholar and philosopher .

Life

He studied German, art history and philosophy in Heidelberg, Munich, Freiburg im Breisgau, Leipzig and Göttingen (majoring from 1925); In 1931 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1931 he married Margot Schwarz; from marriage there is a son. In 1949 he married Anneliese Voigt, b. Schmidt. A lifelong friendship connected him with the writer Friedo Lampe (1899–1945), whose complete works he - with text changes - published for the first time posthumously in 1955 by Rowohlt

He was a member of the Confessing Church .

Profession and work

Pfeiffer worked as a teacher at the Bremen adult education center from 1933 to 1935 , but was not taken on after the adult education center was integrated into the adult education center due to a lack of National Socialist sentiments. From 1935 to 1939 he worked as a private scholar. In order to finally be able to realize his habilitation intentions, he provided a proof of loyalty when he joined the National Socialist People's Welfare in 1937 . But he could not prove the expected National Socialist sentiments and decided to give up the habilitation attempt. Especially after the war, Pfeiffer became known for numerous, high-circulation literary and philosophical works.

Fonts

  • Rudolf Alexander Schröder's “Ballade” and “Lobgesang”. Dulk, Hamburg; Storm, Bremen 1938.
  • Novels and short stories. A directory of books. Published by Hamburg public. Book keeping, edited by Johannes Pfeiffer u. a. Christians, Hamburg 1940.
  • Friedrich Rückert: Poems. Selected and introduced by Johannes Pfeiffer. Schröder, Hamburg 1946.
  • Friedo Lampe: rats and swans. Novel. Afterword by Johannes Pfeiffer. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1949.
  • Existential philosophy. An introduction to Heidegger and Jaspers. 3rd, exp. Edition. Meiner, Hamburg 1952.
  • Paths to storytelling , Wittig, Hamburg 1953.
  • Contestation and consolation in the German poem. 6th edition. Schröder, Hamburg 1954.
  • (Ed.): Friedo Lampe: Complete Works. , Hamburg 1955.
  • Goethe's Faust. An introduction. 4th, exp. Edition. Meiner, Hamburg 1956.
  • Way and turn. A breviary of Lebenshilfe. Schröder, Hamburg 1957.
  • The poetic reality. Experiments on the essence and truth of poetry . Meiner, Hamburg 1962.
  • Against the current , papers and reviews 1934-1959, Verl. Die Spur, Itzehoe 1964
  • What do we have in a story? Reflections and explanations. Wittig, Hamburg 1965.
  • Poetry, think, believe. Selected essays 1936–1966. Siebenstern, Hamburg 1967.
  • Dealing with poetry. An introduction to understanding the poetic. 11th edition. Meiner, Hamburg 1967.
  • Paths to Poetry. An introduction to the art of reading. 7th, unchanged. Edition. Wittig, Hamburg 1969.
  • Absurdity and solidarity. Contributions to the understanding of Albert Camus . Verl. "Die Spur" Herbert Dorbandt, Berlin 1969.
  • The proof of spirit and strength. About Karl Hilty . Publishing house Die Spur, Berlin 1972.

literature

  • Herbert Eisenreich: How prose becomes art. In: The time . No. 34, August 20, 1953, updated November 22, 2012.
  • Rolf Bohnsack, Hellmut Heeger, Wolf Hermann (eds.): Shape, thought, secret. Festschrift for Johannes Pfeiffer on his 65th birthday. The track, Berlin 1967, DNB 456748164 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the edge of the night on the Wallstein Verlag website
  2. ^ Friedo lamp: letters and certificates. Volume 2: Testimonials and texts on literature and art. Comment. Edited by Thomas Ehrsam. Göttingen, Wallstein 2018, p. 294f.
  3. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.): Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1880–1950. Berlin 2003, p. 1401.
personal data
SURNAME Pfeiffer, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfeiffer, Johannes Sierich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, literary scholar and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Guatemala
DATE OF DEATH 20th February 1970
Place of death Hamburg