Manfred Krüger (anthroposophist)

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Manfred Kruger
Manfred Krüger (2013)

Manfred Krüger (born February 23, 1938 in Köslin , † February 24, 2019 in Nuremberg ) was a German anthroposophist and writer . From 1986 to 2010 he was Professor of Philosophy at the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences .

Life

After the expulsion in 1945 and school in Ansbach , he studied philosophy, German and Romance languages in Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1957 to 1965 . His teachers include Hans Robert Jauß (literary studies), Otto Friedrich Bollnow (philosophy), Diether Lauenstein (theology) and Nora Ruhtenberg (painting). In 1960 he passed the Philosophical State Examination with Walter Schulz and received his doctorate in 1965 . From 1966 to 1973 Krüger worked as a research assistant with a teaching position for French literary studies at the University of Erlangen . Since 1969 he has also worked in the section for beautiful sciences at the Goetheanum . In 1971 Krüger was involved in founding the Nuremberg Seminar for Spiritual Science within the framework of the Anthroposophical Society in Germany, where he received a teaching and research assignment. In 1986 Krüger was appointed professor at the Ottersberg University of Applied Sciences. He has also held various guest professorships: 1975–1986 at the Institute for Waldorf Education in Witten , 2000–2006 as part of a Waldorf teacher training course in Tokyo, and in 2004 as a visiting professor for art history at the Alanus University of Art and Society in Alfter .

Editorial responsibility for magazines: From 1960 to 1965 Manfred Krüger was editor of the magazine "Contributions from the anthroposophical student work" (Tübingen). From 1984 to 1996 Manfred Krüger was together with Martin Barkhoff responsible editor of the weekly "Das Goetheanum". From 1989 to 2019 he was a member of the editorial team of the quarterly publication "Anthroposophy. Messages from anthroposophical work in Germany". During his membership on the editorial board, he regularly published smaller articles in these journals.

Manfred Krüger died on February 24, 2019 in Nuremberg.

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Krüger researched and published in the fields of philosophy , theology , anthroposophy , literary and art history . He strove to unite science, art and religion in the sense that Johann Gottfried Herder coined the expression " beautiful science " and Rudolf Steiner renewed it. Manfred Krüger worked out terms such as initiation and reincarnation as the “representation and interpretation of death” in Gérard de Nerval 's work. With the guiding point of view of initiation, he also examined “changes in the tragic”. In the work of the church father Origen , referring above all to the commentary on Matthew, he developed that the idea of reincarnation , as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Steiner think, has its origin in the resurrection of Jesus Christ , leads to the “birth of the ego” and accordingly from the old one A distinction must be made between the theory of the migration of souls (1996). He interpreted the "transfiguration on the mountain" as a source for a Christian aesthetic (2003). In the work of Novalis himself showed him "paths to higher consciousness" (2008). In Albrecht Dürer's work he showed mysticism , self-knowledge and the search for Christ as a lifelong basic mood (2009). In his Steiner studies (1983, 1988, 2009) the concept of meditation is the focus.

Fonts (selection)

  • Gérard de Nerval - representation and interpretation of death . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1966.
  • Eugène Ionesco . In: Wolf-Dieter Lange (Ed.): French literature of the present in single representations (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 398). Kröner, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-520-39801-X .
  • Changes of the tragic - drama and initiation . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 978-3-7725-0631-4
  • Images and counter-images - an attempt on modern literature . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 978-3-7725-0693-2
  • Nora Ruhtenberg - Images from within . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1976.
  • The French drama 1880-1920 . In: New Handbook of Literary Studies, 19th century - turn of the century . H. Hinterhäuser (Ed.), Athenaion, Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 978-3-7997-0135-8
  • Literature and History - About the Art of Thinking the Past as Future . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 978-3-7725-0048-0
  • Meditation - Knowledge as Art . Ogham, Stuttgart 1983, 3rd ext. Edition Dornach 2002 ISBN 978-3-7235-0813-8
  • Meditation and karma. Introduction to anthroposophy as the Grail Science . Goetheanum, Dornach 1988, ISBN 978-3-7235-0456-7
  • I-birth. Origen and the Christian idea of ​​reincarnation from Pythagoras to Lessing . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 1996, ISBN 978-3-4871-0101-9
  • The self and its masks - On the question of the truth . Kastalia, Bodenkirchen 1997, ISBN 978-3-9805-9020-4
  • The transfiguration on the mountain - knowledge and art . Georg Olms, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 978-3-4871-1868-0
  • Michael - imaginations of an archangel . Pforte, Dornach 2007, ISBN 978-3-85636-178-5
  • Novalis - ways to higher consciousness . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-7725-1717-4
  • The most dangerous of goods - the language . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7725-2374-8
  • Mystery drama in the soul space. Paths of self-knowledge in spirit community . Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach 2009, ISBN 978-3-7274-5333-5
  • Albrecht Dürer - mysticism, self-knowledge, search for Christ . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-7725-2375-5
  • Inner calm - Christ in the sea storm . Goetheanum, Dornach 2010, ISBN 978-3-7235-1357-6
  • Christ-Sophia - Wisdom builds its house . Goetheanum, Dornach 2011, ISBN 978-3-7235-1362-0
  • The Writings of John: The Gospel . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7725-1641-2
  • The writings of John: True is the word . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7725-1642-9
  • The Writings of John: The Apocalypse . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7725-1643-6
  • Rembrandt and the wise Simeon - The knowledge of the Son of Man . Roderer, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89783-746-1
  • The Gospel of Mark . Roderer, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89783-764-5
  • Paul and his gospel . Roderer, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89783-787-4
  • The knowledge of the angels . Roderer, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-03769-042-0
  • The Gospel of Luke . Roderer, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89783-804-8
  • The Gospel of Matthew . Roderer, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-89783-808-6
  • The letters of the Lord Brothers James and Jude . Roderer, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89783-822-2
  • Peter and the letters of Peter . Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89783-826-0
  • Melchizedek and the Epistle to the Hebrews . Roderer, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89783-833-8
  • The soul in the course of the year - attempt to meditate on the anthroposophical soul calendar . 3rd edition: Zbinden, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-85989-451-8
  • Aesthetics of Freedom. Thoughts and artistic thoughts (aphorisms and essays) . 2nd revised edition: Amthor, Heidenheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-934104-51-8
  • Think poet - look thinker. Poems and meditations . Roderer, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-89783-860-4
  • Experiencing thinking . Roderer, Regensburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-89783-858-1
  • Philosophical reader. Roderer, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-89783-902-1

literature

  • Interview with short biography in: Zeitschrift Info3 July 1984 with short biography
  • Who is who
  • Who's who
  • Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar
  • Obituary in: The Goetheanum (March 2019)
  • Obituary in: Quarterly Anthroposophy (Easter 2019).

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personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, philosopher and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin