Klaus Heinrich

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Klaus Heinrich (born September 23, 1927 in Berlin ) is a retired German professor for religious studies based on the philosophy of religion . He was one of the founders of the Free University of Berlin . His lectures are considered a major attempt at self-enlightenment about the relationship between the aesthetic and the transcendental subject . His complete works have been published by ça ira- Verlag since 2020 .

Life

After the Second World War , in which he was accused of undermining military strength as an air force helper, he studied law , philosophy , theology , sociology , art history and literature at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Unter den Linden in Berlin . There, however, he had to struggle with political difficulties and therefore became a student co-founder of the Free University of Berlin in 1948. After receiving his doctorate in 1952, he taught religious studies with a focus on the philosophy of religion . In 1964 he completed his habilitation with the essay Attempt about the difficulty of saying no . From 1971 until his retirement in 1995 he was a full professor at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Free University of Berlin. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Teaching and Effect

Klaus Heinrich's lectures enjoyed an almost legendary reputation, because in them, with a freedom that is barely imaginable in the academic field today, he lectured not only on the philosophy of religion, but also on a variety of topics such as logic , psychoanalysis , existentialism and constantly in friction with architecture , art and Music until very recently. His courses were therefore also attended by students from a wide variety of disciplines.

Heinrich 's Heidegger criticism takes place at eye level, whereby he proves that Heidegger's terms showed his determined participation in the NS early on . Quote from Heidegger's Overcoming Metaphysics , 3:

"The working animal is left to the frenzy of its powers so that it can tear itself apart and destroy it in the vain nothing."

Heinrich's comment:

"The accusation of treason is directed against the use of the conjunction 'thus' in this sentence (even if we refrain from any interpretation of the terms used in it)."

Namely the betrayal of the intellectual testimony in the NS.

Heinrich has an eidetic memory. He can quote page by page passages from literature he has read.

The ethnologist Karl-Heinz Kohl , who is a student of Heinrich, writes in an article on his 85th birthday about Heinrich's lectures:

“Using classic philosophical thought worlds, he showed that with their systematic constraints they only cover up all the conflicts that are still openly discussed in the religions and as in principle insoluble. It was Freud's theory of the return of the repressed in the repressed itself that helped him to understand that religion should be viewed as what is actually repressed in philosophy. (...) Future historians of science will show how much of him had already been thought in advance when he was teaching in Berlin. Not only the concept of gender relations , which has meanwhile been replaced by the banal Anglicism 'gender', comes from him, philosophical deconstructivism was also taught in Dahlem before it was officially invented. "

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In 2016 his architecture lectures in Dahlem appeared . In an interview that preceded the volume, Heinrich was critical of the architects who were reconstructing Berlin's center in a neoclassical spirit.

“They tie in less with Schinkel than with Italian rationalist architecture. You could say that they are reminiscent of a certain time, to which they would give the predicate, the honorary title of the intact: an intact Berlin that has the old eaves again. That means, it is a, let's say nasty, positivistic return of a fantasized intactness that has really never existed. "

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Awards

In 1998 he became an honorary member of the German Psychoanalytical Association (DPV). The German Academy for Language and Literature awarded in 2002 to Klaus Heinrich Sigmund Freud Prize .

Trivia

In addition to the books that were published based on the notes and tape recordings of his students, Heinrich left behind a work of drawings. In the long committee meetings of the Free University of Berlin, he let his pen dance over the empty backs of hectographed minutes and lists as well as the menu in the cafeteria. Many of his drawings are in the estate of Tilmann Buddensieg . In 2020 his sketchbooks and drawings were presented in the Klaus Gerrit Friese Gallery.

Works and essays

  • Attempt to say no about the difficulty , Frankfurt am Main 1964, 4th edition 2002 ISBN 3-87877-169-X
  • Parmenides and Jonah. Four studies on the relationship between philosophy and mythology , Frankfurt / Main 1966.
  • Reason and Myth. Selected texts , Frankfurt am Main 1983
  • start with joy. Speeches and small writings 1 , Frankfurt am Main 1997 ISBN 3-87877-611-X
  • How one religion takes away the truth from others: Notes on the discomfort when reading the Gospel of John , in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , Vol. 49, No. 4 (1997), pp. 345-363
  • to give society an awareness of itself. Speeches and smaller writings 2 , Frankfurt am Main 1998 ISBN 3-87877-612-8
  • Children of the Nibelungs. Klaus Heinrich and Heiner Müller in conversation , Frankfurt am Main 2007 ISBN 978-3-86600-016-2
  • Holding on to Freud. A Heine-Freud miniature on the still current role of the enlightener Freud . In: Journal for psychoanalytical theory and practice, 3, 2007, pp. 365–388; Reprint of the article ISBN 978-3-86600-019-3

Dahlem lectures:

  • Vol. 1: tertium datur. A religious-philosophical introduction to logic , ed. v. Wolfgang Albrecht u. a., Frankfurt am Main and Basel 1981 ISBN 3-87877-139-8
  • Vol. 2: anthropomorphic. On the problem of anthropomorphism in the philosophy of religion , ed. v. Wolfgang Albrecht u. a., Frankfurt am Main and Basel 1986 ISBN 3-87877-197-5
  • Vol. 3: working with Oedipus. Concept of displacement in religious studies , ed. v. Hans-Albrecht Kücken u. a., Frankfurt am Main and Basel 1993 ISBN 3-87877-392-7
  • Vol. 4: thinking of the alliance. Philosophy of Religion , ed. v. Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Frankfurt am Main and Basel 2000 ISBN 3-87877-798-1
  • Vol. 7: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and the problem of the concrete social general , ed. v. Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Frankfurt am Main and Basel 2001 ISBN 3-87877-768-X
  • Vol. 8: Enlightenment in Religions. socially mediated relationship to nature. Concept of enlightenment in religions and in religious studies , ed. v. Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Frankfurt am Main and Basel 2007 ISBN 978-3-87877-028-2
  • Vol. 9: working with Herakles. On the figure and the problem of the hero , ed. v. Hans-Albrecht Kücken, Frankfurt am Main and Basel 2006 ISBN 978-3-87877-029-9
  • Dahlem lectures. Karl Friedrich Schinkel / Albert Speer. An architectural examination of the NS. Arch + Verlag in cooperation with Stroemfeld Verlag, Aachen and Frankfurt am Main 2015 ISBN 978-3-931435-30-1

Essays

  • Holding on to Freud . Reprint of the journal for psychoanalytic theory and practice , No. 3, 2007. Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-86600-019-3
  • The dust and the thinking. On the fascination of the Sophocles Antigone after the war , in: Sophocles Antigone, ed. v. Gisela Greve, Tübingen 2002, pp. 25-58, ISBN 3-89295-718-5

Festschriften

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Kohl : Saying no, but with reasons: Electively related to the protest: Religions as a reservoir of never-resolvable conflicts , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 17, 2012 (article about Heinrich on his 85th birthday)
  • René Weiland and Wolfgang Pircher (eds.): Myths of Rationality. Thinking with Klaus Heinrich. Vienna: Turia + Kant, 1990
  • Hauke ​​Ritz : The struggle for the interpretation of modern times. The historical and philosophical discussion in Germany from the First World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Munich 2013. pp. 105–169.
  • Manfred Bauschulte: About the end of the Neolithic revolution: Conversations and experiments with Klaus Heinrich , Vienna: Klever Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-902665-47-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What connects and what separates the Nazi architects Albert Speer and Karl Friedrich Schinkel? Klaus Heinrich gives brilliant answers , sz , accessed on February 5, 2017
  2. ↑ Preview: Spring 2020. In: ça ira-Verlag. January 14, 2020, accessed on January 14, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Kerstin Decker: Der Genius von Dahlem , tagesspiegel.de , November 21, 2012
  4. ↑ EM Lange: Saying no and looking for peace ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 28 kB)
  5. ↑ The Heidegger lectures will be published by Ça ira Verlag from 2021 . This publisher wants to publish most of Heinrich's fonts from 2020, including those that have not yet been printed, and those previously published by Stroemfeld but now out of print.
  6. ^ Karl-Heinz Kohl in German anthropology
  7. ↑ Karl-Heinz Kohl: Saying no, but with reasons: Electively related to protest: Religions as a reservoir of never-resolvable conflicts , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 17, 2012, p. 30 (article about Heinrich on his 85th birthday).
  8. ↑ Open mind and rigid thinking: The lectures of the religious philosopher Klaus Heinrich on Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Albert Speer have now appeared in one volume. Free University of Berlin 2015. With picture
  9. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The thinking hand. Retrieved May 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ 2020 | Heinrich ›Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese. In: Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese. February 6, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin