Liselotte Richter

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Liselotte Richter (born June 7, 1906 in Berlin ; † January 16, 1968 there ) was a German philosopher and theologian .

Liselotte Richter studied philosophy , theology and German literature in Berlin , Marburg and Freiburg from 1926 to 1932 . She heard from Martin Heidegger , Edmund Husserl and Erich Frank , among others , and received her doctorate from him in 1932. She was particularly interested in the writings of Sören Kierkegaard .

Academic activity

During National Socialism, Liselotte Richter worked for the Leibniz Edition company of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and from 1943 to 1945 she worked as a DRK nurse in the care of the wounded. After the Second World War , she became district councilor for education and culture in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg , completed her habilitation at Humboldt University and in 1948 was the first woman in Germany to be appointed to a professorship for (pure) philosophy. As part of the redesign of Philosophy (University Reform 1950-51 2) in the GDR in 1951 forced out of the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Theology of the Humboldt University Liselotte Richter weggelobt . Here she received a professorship with a chair in the philosophy of religion - as the first female scientist in Germany. Her chair belonged to the systematic theology sub-department in the faculty. She read the history of philosophy and devoted herself to religious-philosophical studies.

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In 1965, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology for her dedicated teaching activities . Your writings reflect a wide range of interests. In addition to Sören Kierkegaard, there are also publications on René Descartes , Jakob Böhme , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , Moses Mendelssohn , Angelus Silesius , Rainer Maria Rilke , Karl Jaspers , Albert Camus , Jean-Paul Sartre and Mahatma Gandhi . She commuted between her place of residence in the West Berlin district of Charlottenburg and her place of work in East Berlin , so she was a cross-border commuter , even after the building of the Wall she continued her teaching activity. After a long and serious illness, she died on January 16, 1968 and was buried in Luisenfriedhof II in Berlin-Westend . Her grave is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

The Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin honored Liselotte Richter on her 100th birthday with a commemorative event on June 7, 2006. Richard Schröder , Catherina Wenzel and Michael Weichenhan created the commemorative volume “After every sunset I am wounded and orphaned . ” Published for Liselotte Richter on her 100th birthday . Since 2007, the Leibniz-Edition Potsdam of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences has awarded the Liselotte Richter Prize, endowed with 1000 euros, to the upper secondary schools of the states of Berlin and Brandenburg every two years.

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • The concept of subjectivity in Kierkegaard. A contribution to the Christian representation of existence. Triltsch, Würzburg 1934 (plus Marburg Univ. Diss.)
  • Immanence and transcendence in the post-Reformation image of God. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1955
  • Jakob Boehme. Mystical vision. (Spiritual Europe). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1947
  • Jean-Paul Sartre. (Heads of the 20th century; 23). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1964
  • Leibniz and his image of Russia. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1949
  • Mahatma Gandhi. (Heads of the 20th century; 25). Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1962
  • Philosophy of poetry. Moses Mendelssohn's Aesthetics between Enlightenment and Sturm und Drang. Chronos-Verlag, Berlin 1948
  • René Descartes. Dialogues with German thinkers. (Spiritual Europe). Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1949
  • Creative Faith in the Age of Fear. Glock, Wiesbaden 1954

Editor

  • Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus. An attempt at the absurd. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1959 [u. ö. bis 1997], ISBN 3-499-22198-5 (with the essay Camus and the Philosophers in their statement about the absurdity by Liselotte Richter, which was no longer included in the new translation from 1999.)
  • Sören Kierkegaard: Works. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg (with the essay Understanding the Work )
  1. The term fear. 1996, ISBN 3-434-46021-7 .
  2. The repetition. 2005, ISBN 3-434-46022-5 .
  3. Fear and trembling. 1998, ISBN 3-434-46023-3 .
  4. The sickness to death. 1995, ISBN 3-434-46024-1 .
  5. Philosophical chunks. 1992, ISBN 3-434-46025-X .

literature

  • Richard Schröder u. a. (Ed.): After every sunset I am wounded and orphaned. Liselotte Richter on her 100th birthday. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86596-088-X .
  • Karl-Wolfgang Tröger : Liselotte Richter as a researcher and teacher. In: The signs of the times. Vol. 40, No. 11, 1986, pp. 283-287.
  • Karl-Wolfgang Tröger: To the history of the special subject general religious history. In: Helmut Klein (ed.): On the history of the theological faculty of Berlin. Humboldt University, Berlin 1975, pp. 577-579 (= scientific journal of the Humboldt University of Berlin, vol. 34, 1985).
  • Catherina Wenzel: On the passion of the religious. Life and work of Liselotte Richter (1906-1968). Böhlau, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-412-12198-3 .
  • Hans-Christoph Rauh:  Richter, Liselotte . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Judge, Liselotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1968
Place of death Berlin