Kurt A. Mautz

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Kurt Mautz

Kurt Adolf Mautz (born June 1, 1911 in Montigny near Metz ; † November 2000 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary scholar and writer . He was the father of the actor Rolf Mautz .

life and work

Mautz studied German literature, philosophy and history, initially from 1930 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, among others with the then little-known private lecturer Theodor W. Adorno , and from 1934 in Gießen with the Catholic priest Theodor Steinbüchel , who held a concordat chair for philosophy there. "The seizure of power by the Nazis seemed to be less noisy here than in Frankfurt," Mautz later wrote in his key novel Der Urfreund . “I… didn't care about anything but my dissertation.” Mautz received his doctorate in 1936 with a study on Max Stirner , which was published in 1936 in the Neue Deutsche Forschungen series. He was denied a scientific career in the years up to 1945. But even after the war Mautz was unable to gain a foothold in the academic world, apart from brief teaching assignments at the PH Frankfurt ; from 1950 until his retirement in 1972 he worked as a high school teacher in Mainz.

In addition to his job as a teacher, Mautz worked as a private scholar . However, he no longer followed up on his philosophical studies on Max Stirner. Instead, he created literary studies on Adalbert Stifter and literary expressionism , primarily on Georg Heym . Especially after his retirement, Mautz wrote narrative prose and experimental poetry, through which he became one of the more important representatives of so-called concrete poetry . He also advanced to the "Magister Ludi" of the German anagram poet .

With the late novel Der Urfreund , a key novel , Mautz provided a document about the career of the literary scholar Wilhelm Emrich . Emrich figured there as “Kreifeld”, who like Mautz was a student of Adorno (“Amorelli”) and in 1932, for the Goethe year, had written a brilliant pamphlet in which, as a militant socialist, he called for the end of the Weimar Republic . Mautz ("Ronge") accompanied Emrich's career as a Germanist , in which he changed from anti-fascist to National Socialist and, after 1945, to a dignified democrat. However, while Mautz let “Kreifeld” end by suicide in 1950, the scientific career of the turned National Socialist Emrich only really began at this time. Urfreunde - Wilhelm Emrich and Kurt Mautz , the epilogue in the second volume of the documentary about Wilhelm Emrich published in August 2018, deals with the relationship between the two.

Mautz also wrote two articles on sociological and humanities content on the conservative historian Heinrich Leo .

Mautz's estate can be found as estate 181 in the Mainz City Archives .

Publications

  • Max Stirner's philosophy in contrast to Hegelian idealism . Berlin 1936 ( digitized )
  • Georg Heym. Mythology and Society in Expressionism . Frankfurt am Main 1961
  • The antagonistic image of nature in Stifter's “Studies” . In: Adalbert Stifter. Studies and Interpretations. Commemorative script for the 100th anniversary of death . Heidelberg 1968, p. 23 ff.
  • Nature and society in Stifter's “Condor” . In: literary studies and the philosophy of history. Festschrift for Wilhelm Emrich . Berlin, New York 1975, p. 406 ff.
  • Typewriter poetry . Munich 1977
  • Passive resistance . Story, 1982
  • Location determination . Poems; grammatical ballads; Permutations, 1984
  • Poem Germanists . In watermarks of poetry . Verlag Franz Greno, Nördlingen 1985
  • Exchange of letters . Anagram poems, 1993
  • The great friend . Roman, Paderborn 1996
  • German dreams . In: Poems and Anagrams . Anabas Verlag, 1999

literature

  • Urfreunde - Wilhelm Emrich and Kurt Mautz In: Jörg Schönert, Ralf Klausnitzer, Wilhelm Schernus (Ed.): Wilhelm Emrich - on the life story of a humanities scholar before, during and after the Nazi era. Volume 2: 1945–1959: Wilhelm Emrichs modeling of his academic existence , S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-7776-2656-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Mautz: The Urfreund. Igel-Verlag, Paderborn 1996, p. 55
  2. ↑ So it is listed in 1983 in Kürschner's German scholarly calendar from 1983
  3. ^ So Albert von Schirnding in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, December 1, 1993, p. L5
  4. ↑ Introduction to Heinrich Leo: To a natural theory of the state . Schauer, Frankfurt / Main 1948; Leo and tendril . In: German quarterly books for literary history and humanities . (Ed .: E. Rothacker, P. Kluckhohn et al.) 1953

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personal data
SURNAME Mautz, Kurt A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mautz, Kurt Adolf; Mautz, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Montigny near Metz
DATE OF DEATH November 2000
Place of death Wiesbaden