Klaus Theweleit

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Klaus Theweleit (born February 7, 1942 in Ebenrode , East Prussia ) is a German literary scholar , cultural theorist and writer .

Life

Theweleit was born in Ebenrode in East Prussia - today Nesterow , Russia - as the son of a railway official and grew up in Schleswig-Holstein after the family fled . He studied German and English in Kiel and Freiburg . His studies he financed by jobs in construction and civil engineering , on a Kiel shipyard or the Federal Motor Vehicle Office in Flensburg - Mürwik . From 1969 to 1972 he worked as a freelancer for Südwestfunk . As a member of the SDS he took part in the left extra-parliamentary opposition . This experience and the confrontation with it has decisively shaped parts of his work, his scientific and literary methods, topics and political goals.

With his “summa cum laude” graded dissertation Freikorpsliteratur: From the German post-war 1918-1923 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . The doctoral thesis was the basis for the two-volume work Männerphantasien published in 1977/78 .

After completing his doctorate, he was not allowed to hold a proseminar at the Freiburg University because of his, according to the Germanist Gerhard Kaiser , “unbridled intelligence”. He later taught at the Institute for Sociology at the University of Freiburg and conducted seminars at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin . From 1998 to 2008 he was professor for art and theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe . In 2002 and 2003 he was a fellow of the Friedrich Nietzsche College .

Theweleit lives in Freiburg, works as a freelance author and has teaching assignments in Germany, the USA, Switzerland and Austria. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the German Academy for Football Culture . Theweleit has been married to the psychoanalyst Monika Theweleit-Kubale since 1972. The couple have two sons.

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Klaus Theweleit reading Das Lachen der Täter: Breivik u. a. in Club W71 (2016)

Male fantasies

Theweleit's two-volume study of men's fantasies came about in the context of coming to terms with National Socialism and is considered to be one of the first works in German and international men's studies . The 1,174 printed pages, two-volume work was published by Verlag Roter Stern and, after its publication, was extensively received in both left-wing alternative and feminist as well as mainstream publications. In an eight-page Spiegel review, Rudolf Augstein described the book as “perhaps the most exciting German-language publication of the year”. With this book Theweleit became known far beyond the left subculture.

In the book, which is strongly oriented towards concepts of psychoanalysis and by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari , Theweleit examined fascist consciousness and the soldierly character of the self . In addition, he attempted to reformulate some of the popular psychoanalytic views of the fascist male type. In it he deals in particular with the literature of the German Freikorps of the interwar period . His theses are also inspired by the work of the American psychoanalyst Margaret Mahler , who describes psychotic children in her 1969 book On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation , whose traits Theweleit with the attitudes of the authors - Hermann Ehrhardt , Gerhard Roßbach , Martin Niemöller , Rudolf Höß , Ernst Jünger , Ernst von Salomon , Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and Manfred von Killinger - which form the starting point of his (initially literary) investigation.

Both the children mentioned and the authors named by Theweleit and others have in common. a. an inability to develop human relationships, a derailment of the libidinal human object world and an aggressively saturated, chaotic "interior". Neither in the children described by Mahler nor in the fascist male type (represented by the authors mentioned) is an I, which has grown from within, in the sense of Freudian psychoanalysis - as a mediator between the world and the id - fully developed. Because of this deficiency, the fascist type, like Mahler's patients, is threatened by unpleasant symbiotic states that arise at any time and is therefore forced to constantly ward off fear.

In contrast to the children described, however, adults of the “fascist type” are highly functional and in no way autistic , which Theweleit explains by the fact that these people have acquired a secondary ego in the form of “body armor”, the outer one, through being beaten and during military drill License plate u. a. military tightness, stiffness and hypothermia.

Book of kings

The "Book of Kings" (1988–1994, 3 vols.) On power relations in art production is another major work by Theweleit. The first volume Orpheus and Euridike appeared in 1988 and deals with the realities of literary and musical art production. The starting point is the Orpheus and Eurydice motif. Theweleit describes how art production in patriarchy can be traced back to the sacrifice of women and how artists instrumentalize their love relationships with women through the media and 'tap' them for their own work.

Book of the King's Daughters

In March 2013 his 736-page book of the royal daughters was published ; it is part of the four-volume Pocahontas complex . At its center are legends and stories about the ancient king's daughter Medea and the Indian chief's daughter Pocahontas . The material-rich and lavishly illustrated book portrays them as prominent examples of the numerous female victims of indigenous cultures who were made subservient to foreign colonizers who considered themselves culturally superior when they took over foreign soil. Theweleit describes them as - partly forced, partly compliant out of love - defectors into the culture of the invaders.

Theweleit deals extensively with Greek mythology , more precisely: with that part that reflects and justifies the colonization of the areas that were later called Greece by Indo-European "migrant peoples". The myths tell of "great gods who impregnate royal daughters and then ensure that their fathers lose their land". The children born by the seduced or raped royal daughters come into the world as heroes (demigods) “as agents of their godfathers and work against the culture of their mothers; until their submission to the commandments and procedures of the culture of the victorious immigrant Greek Olympian gods ”.

archive

In December 2017, Klaus Theweleit handed over his archive to the German Literature Archive in Marbach . The estate during his lifetime - also known as the estate - comprises around 20 boxes. Since Theweleit writes on continuous paper with the typewriter, most of his manuscripts have survived as paper rolls.

Fonts (selection)

as an author

Licensed edition as TB by Rowohlt 1983–1994, dtv 1995, Piper 2000

    • Vol. 1: Women, Floods, Body, History, 1977; NA: dtv 30461 Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-30461-8 .
    • Vol. 2: men's body. On the Psychoanalysis of White Terror, 1978; NA: dtv 30462, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-30462-6 .

New edition:

  • Male fantasies , new edition Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95757-759-7 .
  • K. Th., With Martin Langbein: Bruch, Verlag Roter Stern / Stroemfeld, Basel 1980. Supplement to Art Spiegelman : Breakdowns.
  • Book of Kings (laid out in 4 volumes)
    • Volume 1: Orpheus and Eurydike , Stroemfeld , Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1988 ISBN 3-87877-265-3 .
    • Volume 2 x: Orpheus am Machtpol , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1994, ISBN 3-87877-305-6 .
    • Volume 2 y: Recording angels' mysteries: second attempt at writing uninvited biographies, detective novel, case report and attention , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1994, ISBN 3-87877-307-2 .
  • Object choice (All You Need Is Love…). About pairing strategies & fragment of a Freud biography , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1990, ISBN 3-87877-321-8 .
  • One + One. Speech for Jean-Luc Godard , Brinkmann & Bose 1995
  • The country called abroad. Essays, speeches, interviews on politics and art , dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-30449-9 .
  • Heiner Muller. Traumtext , Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1996, ISBN 3-87877-579-2 .
  • Ghosts: three slightly incorrect presentations . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1998, ISBN 3-87877-744-2 .
  • The Pocahontas Complex (laid out in 4 volumes)
    • PO: Pocahontas in Wonderland. Shakespeare on tour . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-87877-751-5 .
    • CA: Book of the King's Daughters. Of men of gods and women of men. Mythological pre-Homeric, American . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-87877-752-6 .
    • HON: import. Export. Colonialism theories, or why 'Cortes' really won . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel ISBN 978-3-87877-753-3 .
    • TAS: "You give me fever". Arno Schmidt. Seascapes with Pocahontas. Writing sexuality according to WW II . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 1999, ISBN 3-87877-754-X .
  • Don't push! Knock three times . In: Elisabeth Schweeger , Eberhard Witt (Ed.): Oh Germany! Belville, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-933510-67-8 , pp. 45-57.
  • The bang: September 11th, the disappearance of reality and a war model . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2002, ISBN 3-87877-870-8 .
  • Germany films. Godard. Hitchcock. Pasolini. Film thinking & violence . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2003, ISBN 3-87877-827-9 .
  • Gateway to the world: soccer as a reality model . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03393-X .
  • Friendly Fire: Deadline texts . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2005, ISBN 3-87877-940-2 .
  • Absolute (ly) Sigmund Freud. Songbook . Orange-Press, Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 3-936086-21-4 .
  • with Rainer Höltschl: Jimi Hendrix. A biography . Rowohlt, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-87134-614-9 .
  • The laughter of the perpetrators: Breivik u. a. Psychogram of lust to kill . Residenz Verlag, St. Pölten 2015, ISBN 978-3-7017-1637-1

as editor

CDs

  • The RAF ghost . 2 CD set, 130 minutes. Cologne: supposé 2001, ISBN 3-932513-23-1 .
  • Ecstasy of the mixture of times. Representation of history in art . 2 CD set, 160 minutes. Cologne: supposé 2001, ISBN 3-932513-22-3 .
  • BST - VIOSILENCE . Audio CD, 50 minutes. Music: Walter Berger, Christian Schaeffer, Klaus Theweleit. Cologne: supposé 2001, ISBN 3-932513-24-X .

Awards

literature

  • Kevin S. Amidon and Dan Krier: On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies. In: Men and Masculinities . 11, No. 4, 2009, pp. 488-496. doi: 10.1177 / 1097184X08322611
  • Lutz Niethammer : Male Fantasies: an argument for and with an important new study in history and psychoanalysis . In: History Workshop Journal . 7, No. 1, 1979, pp. 176-186. doi: 10.1093 / hwj / 7.1.176
  • Klaus Theweleit: Everything has to be done in such a way that anyone who sees it can call out, I can do that too. In: Uwe Nettelbeck (Ed.): The Republic. No. 18-26, April 30, 1978, pp. 464-603. Also to Theweleit's rejection by the university.
  • Gerd Dembowski : Confidential. Avoidable romanticizations of a man's fantasy. In: Ders .: Football vs. Country music. Essays, satires, anti-folk. Papyrossa, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89438-369-0 , pp. 80-84.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Theweleit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caroline Fetscher : The Inspirer . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 7, 2012. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Klaus Theweleit . In: Munzinger archive . Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ Klaus Theweleit: Male fantasies: women, floods, bodies, history . Roter Stern / Stroemfeld, Frankfurt a. M. 1977, ISBN 978-3-87877-111-1 , pp. 7-8.
  4. ^ Theweleit, Klaus . In: Bayerischer Rundfunk . Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ taz July 2, 2005
  6. ↑ http://literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=5190
  7. ↑ a b c Sven Reichardt : Klaus Theweleit “Men's Fantasies” - a successful book of the 1970s . In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History , online edition 3 (2006), issue 3.
  8. ↑ a b Rudolf Augstein : Women flow, men shoot . In: Der Spiegel , December 19, 1977. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  9. ↑ DFF - German Film Institute & Filmmuseum: Lecture & Film: Pier Paolo Pasolini - THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM - Lecture by Klaus Theweleit. In: Youtube. December 8, 2014, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  10. ^ Research - Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche - Fellowships . In: Klassik Stiftung Weimar . Retrieved October 1, 2012.
  11. ↑ Cultural scientist Klaus Theweleit is 65 . dieStandard.at, February 7, 2007
  12. ↑ Franziska Bergmann and Jennifer Moos: Men and Gender . In: Freiburg Gender Studies 21 , 2007, pp. 13–37.
  13. ↑ The artist and his woman sacrifice
  14. ↑ a b Klaus Theweleit: Book of the King's Daughters. Of men of gods and women of men. Mythological pre-Homeric, American . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 225.
  15. ↑ Klaus Theweleit's archive goes to Marbach. Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, December 22, 2017, accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Beloved rolls of paper. Börsenblatt , December 22, 2017, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  17. ^ Review by Julia Encke, FAZ, published on March 24, 2015
  18. ↑ absolute series . In: Orange Press . Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  19. ↑ Merck Prize for Klaus Theweleit. In: Der Tagesspiegel . May 13, 2003, accessed April 24, 2016.
  20. ↑ Klaus Theweleit receives Reinhold Schneider Prize. In: Badische Zeitung . February 3, 2014, accessed April 24, 2016.
  21. ^ Reinhold Schneider Prize of the City of Freiburg , website of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau, accessed on April 24, 2016.
  22. ↑ Schiller Prize 2016 is awarded to Klaus Theweleit , website of the city of Mannheim, April 19, 2016, accessed on April 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Theweleit, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sociologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebenrode , East Prussia