Kuno Fiedler

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Kuno Fiedler (born February 3, 1895 in Schwiebus ; † May 13, 1973 in Purasca ( Canton Ticino )) was a German-Swiss Protestant theologian and pastor.

Life

Fiedler studied theology in Leipzig from 1913 and was initially parish vicar in Planitz in Saxony. In 1918 he was in Leipzig with a dissertation on Gustav Theodor Fechner to Dr. phil. PhD. On October 23 of the same year he carried out the house baptism of Elisabeth Mann , the fifth child of Thomas and Katia Mann . Thomas Mann, with whom he has corresponded since 1915, reports about it in hexameters in the song of the child . Mann's literary portrait of the “ecclesiastical youth” is not free from distant irony and injured fiddlers; but "among the victims of Thomas Mann incorporated into the work as blackening material, [he] was among those who were reconciled" (Thomas Sprecher).

In addition to the church office, he published a lot. His pamphlet Lutheranism or Christianity? led to his dismissal from church service in 1922. He went into the teaching profession, first as an elementary school teacher, then as a teacher in Neustadt an der Orla , 1930 in Altenburg as a religion teacher.

At the end of 1932, Fiedler refused to carry out the propaganda prescribed by Fritz Sauckel (NSDAP), the Thuringian interior minister, in class. He then lived as a journalist in Dettingen am Main . He visited Thomas Mann twice in Küsnacht in August 1934 and April 1936, until he was arrested on September 2, 1936 without giving any reason. Fiedler later learned that the Gestapo had arrested him because they suspected him to be an agent in a spy ring around Thomas Mann. In the third week of imprisonment, Fiedler managed to escape from the political department of the Würzburg regional court prison ; he crossed the border on a boat across Lake Constance to Switzerland, where, with the support of Mann and the European Central Agency for Church Relief, he took a position as a pastor in St. Antönien received and was naturalized in 1947. He also met Thomas Mann again after his return from the USA. Their correspondence continued into the year of Mann's death. The “most important statements about religion and religiosity” available from Thomas Mann can be found in letters to Fiedler.

In 1955 he left his parish and retired in complete seclusion in Ticino.

Fiedler confessed his homosexuality to Thomas Mann at an early stage . He also dealt with the topic from a literary and theoretical perspective. In an essay from 1923 he rated (male) homoeroticism as the “basis of everything that is big, strong and promising in the world”.

Fonts

  • The motifs of Fechner's worldview , [= Phil. Dissertation Leipzig 1918], Halle 1918.
  • Lutheranism or Christianity? Verlag der Weltwende, Balingen 1922.
  • Knoll, Ferdinand (pseud.): The love of the few: A cultural philosopher. Lecture on feminism a. Virilism , Verlag Der Eigen, Berlin 1931.
  • Faith, grace and redemption: according to the synoptic Jesus . Haupt, Bern-Leipzig 1939.
  • Human inflation (and how nature confronts it). With an excursus on the meaning of homoeroticism . Clou, Egnach 1966

literature

  • Klaus Bäumler, Hans-Ludwig Oertel (Ed.): Kuno Fiedler: "Over walls". The Story of an Escape , 2013
  • Thomas Speaker: Pastor Kuno Fiedler. Companion and correspondent Thomas Manns In: Bündner Jahrbuch 1999, pp. 94-104 ( online copy )
  • Alexander Zinn: Short biography of Fiedler on rosa-winkel.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ p. 97
  2. ↑ Fiedler's biography at rosa-winkel.de , accessed on April 5, 2017
  3. ^ Spokesman, p. 101
  4. ^ Educational eroticism . In: Heilbronner Sonntags-Zeitung , December 30, 1923, quoted from Sprecher, p. 101
personal data
SURNAME Fiddler, Kuno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiedler, Johann Kuno; Kuhn, Friedrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss pastor and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwiebus
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1973
Place of death Purasca