Ludwig Strauss

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Ludwig Strauss, 1937

Ludwig Strauss (actually Strauss ) (born October 28, 1892 in Aachen ; † August 11, 1953 in Jerusalem ) was a German writer and literary scholar of Jewish origin.

Life

Ludwig Strauss was the son of a businessman. As a schoolboy he published in magazines and was active in Zionist associations. He studied German, literary history and philosophy in Berlin and Munich . He completed military service and dropped out of college in 1919 due to illness. Since 1925 he was married to Eva Buber, Martin Buber's daughter . After working as a lecturer in 1925/1926, he was a dramaturge at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and lived in the house of the widow Else Sohn-Rethel on Goltsteinstrasse . In 1928 he was with the dissertation Hölderlin's share of Schelling's early system program in Frankfurt doctorate . In 1929 he completed his habilitation in Aachen with the work The Problem of Community in Hölderlin's Hyperion (printed in 1933). Since then he has been a private lecturer at the TH Aachen. He published works and essays on Hölderlin. He translated a selection of stories from the Jewish Ma'assebuch which was published in 1934 as volume 18 in the Schocken Verlag library .

As early as the spring of 1933, denunciation measures by the student body began at RWTH Aachen University . The ASTA ( General Student Committee ) and the student leaders sent the denunciation committee specially set up for this purpose, consisting of Hermann Bonin , Hubert Hoff , Felix Rötscher , Adolf Wallichs and Robert Hans Wentzel, about which of the lecturers and professors were not of Aryan descent or were supposed or actually had an undesirable political attitude. According to the law to restore the civil service due to his Jewish origin, Strauss was supposed to be together with the other non-“Aryan” professors Otto Blumenthal , Arthur Guttmann , Walter Maximilian Fuchs , Ludwig Hopf , Theodore von Kármán , Paul Ernst Levy , Karl Walter Mautner , Alfred Meusel , Leopold Karl Pick , Rudolf Ruer and Hermann Salmang have their teaching license withdrawn.

Despite the possibility of obtaining an exception based on the “ front-line fighter privilege ”, Strauss was given leave of absence as a Jew in September 1933 and emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1935. He lived first in Jerusalem , then in Kibbutz Hasorea . In 1938 he became a teacher in the children's and youth village Ben Shemen, founded in 1927 by the Berlin-born doctor and educator Siegfried Lehmann (1892-1958) near Lod . After 1933 mainly children and young people from Germany were accepted there. Back in Jerusalem from 1949 due to illness, he taught as a lecturer at the Hebrew University . He also wrote his poems in Hebrew . The Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen has established the Ludwig Strauss Professorship for German-Jewish literary history at the German Institute in his honor .

Works

  • Seals and writings . Edited by Werner Kraft. Munich: Kösel-Verl. 1963.
  • Correspondence between Martin Buber and Ludwig Strauss 1913–1953 . Edited by Tuvia Rübner and Dafna Mach. Frankfurt a. M .: Luchterhand 1990. (Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry , Darmstadt. 64)
  • The missed crime and other prose . Edited and with an afterword by Gregor Ackermann (among others). Aachen: Alano-Verlag 1990.
  • Land of Israel. Poems . Edited and with a follow-up by Hans Otto Horch. Aachen: Rimbaud Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-89086-880-0
  • Collected Works . In four volumes. Edited by Tuvia Rübner and Hans Otto Horch. Göttingen: Wallstein 1998-2001. (Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt. 73) ISBN 3-89244-198-7

Editorships

  • Story book from the Jewish-German Maaßebuch / selected. u. transfer by Ludwig Strauss. Schocken, Berlin 1934

literature

  • Richard Faber: From Aachen to Jerusalem - and not back again. On the 100th birthday of Ludwig Strauss. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte 45 (1993), pp. 152–167
  • Hans Otto Horch (Ed.): Ludwig Strauss. 1892-1992. Contributions to his life and work . With a bibliography. Tübingen: Niemeyer 1995 (= Conditio Judaica, 10)
  • Hans Otto Horch: Strauss, Ludwig. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-476-01682-X , pp. 557-558.
  • Rudolf Lennert: About the life of the German language in Jerusalem . In: Neue Sammlung 6 (1966), pp. 617–627 (about Ludwig Strauss, Ernst Simon and Werner Kraft ).
  • Bernd Witte (Ed.): Ludwig Strauss. Poet and Germanist. A memorial . Aachen 1982. 132 pp.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Goltsteinstraße 23, E Sohn, Karl, Witwe, U1 Strauss, Ludwig, Dramaturg , in address book of the city of Düsseldorf, 1926, p. 99
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1953
Place of death Jerusalem