Karl Schlechta (philosopher)

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Karl Anna Schlechta (born January 23, 1904 in Vienna , † February 19, 1985 in Modau , district of Ober-Ramstadt , Germany ; pseudonym: Franz Zöchbauer) was an Austrian- German author , university professor and Nietzsche researcher.

Life

Karl Schlechta had been working at the Nietzsche Archive in Weimar since the early 1930s and still knew its founder and director, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche , personally. After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1938 he became a German citizen. After he had completed his habilitation on the subject of Goethe in his relationship with Aristotle in the same year , he worked as a private lecturer in Jena, then as cultural advisor for the city of Frankfurt am Main , and was appointed associate professor. In 1940 he published a book on Erasmus von Rotterdam with thoughts on right and wrong and life in the tensions of a warlike reality.

Karl Schlechta left the Nietzsche archive in 1939. During his time in the archive, he became aware of the forgeries of Förster-Nietzsche, who died in 1935, especially the letters of the philosopher.

After the Second World War, Schlechta lived in Hesse and was initially a professor in Mainz from 1946 . In 1949 he was appointed to succeed Matthias Meier at the TH Darmstadt. In 1951 he became full professor and director of the Institute for Philosophy, Education and Psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt . During Karl Schlechta's activity in Darmstadt, he was the inspiration for the “Darmstadt Talks” in the sixties. It was about topics like “science”, “fear” and “future”. An article and a radio lecture by Karl Schlechta entitled Words into the Unknown shed light on the intellectual history of these years.

His Nietzsche edition compiled in the 1950s largely replaced the archive editions. The “philological review” in the third volume of this issue and the reporting on it (including the cover story in Spiegel ) made the falsifying activities of the Nietzsche Archive known to a broad public for the first time and triggered a major discussion. Karl Löwith criticized the edition for exaggerated philological accuracy, which dissolves connections in Nietzsche's thinking; conversely, Erich F. Podach attacked the edition because of persistent philological deficiencies and accused Schlechta of wanting to wash away from his own responsibility. Schlechta also published the book Der Fall Nietzsche , which u. a. contains an open letter to Löwith. In fact, Schlechta's edition also only contains a selection of the estate , which is also not in chronological order other than indicated. Only Mazzino Montinari and Giorgio Colli published the estate in full.

Karl Schlechta published memories of the time after the First World War under the pseudonym "Franz Zöchbauer".

Works

  • Nietzsche Chronicle. Data on life and Work / compiled by Karl Schlechta. Munich, Vienna: Hanser, 1975.
  • Nietzsche index to the works in three volumes. Munich: Hanser, 1965.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche: From the hidden beginnings of his philosophizing / Karl Schlechta; Anni Anders. Stuttgart; Bad Cannstatt: Frommann, 1962.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche's works in three volumes, ed. by Karl Schlechta. Munich: Hanser, 1959 ("Schlechta edition").
  • The Nietzsche case: essays u. Lectures. Munich: Hanser, 1958.
  • Yesterday's dream: Roman / under a pseudonym: Franz Zöchbauer. Munich: Kösel, 1956.
  • Nietzsche's great noon. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1954.
  • Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Frankfurt a. M .: Klostermann, 1953.
  • Waystones and wayside shrines: Roman / Franz Zöchbauer. Freiburg im Breisgau: Klemm, 1951.
  • The young Nietzsche and classical antiquity. Mainz: Kupferberg, 1948.
  • Modern humanism in Germany. Mainz: Kupferberg, 1948.
  • Erasmus from Rotterdam. Hamburg: Hoffmann u. Campe, 1940.
  • Goethe in his relationship with Aristotle. One try. Habilitation. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1938.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , pp. 537-538.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Taschenbuch 2005, p. 538.
personal data
SURNAME Schlechta, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zöchbauer, Franz (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German Nietzsche researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1985
Place of death Nieder-Modau