Norbert Krenzlin

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Norbert Krenzlin

Norbert Krenzlin (born April 7, 1934 in Berlin ) is a German philosopher and aesthetician and professor of the history of the latest and contemporary aesthetics.

family

Norbert Krenzlin comes from a Berlin working-class family from the Weissensee district . His father (1907 to 1945) was an opponent of the Nazis. Norbert Krenzlin grew up in Berlin, in Franzen and Reblin, district of Schlawe / Pomerania, under difficult war conditions that resulted in long school failures. The apartment in Berlin was bombed out.

From 1941 he attended the Weißenseer elementary and high school up to the Abitur in 1953. As a radio announcer , he developed his speaking skills, which eventually led him to his university teaching career.

Norbert Krenzlin is married to the Emeritus Professor of Art History Ulrike Krenzlin , born Görner; he has three daughters.

career path

As a “worker and peasant child” he studied in the GDR from 1953 to 1958 at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB). Three university teachers who were profiled in the GDR him to study humanities, philosophy and German studies motivated: Georg Klaus taught logic , Wolfgang Heise the field aesthetics and Gerhard Scholz represented the German. His diploma thesis , an examination of Hermann August Korff's conception of storm and stress in his multi-volume work "Spirit of the Goethe Era", announced that he was permanently contested.

From 1958 to 1960 he did a practical assignment as FDJ secretary at the "University of Fine and Applied Arts", today the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . Stimulated by the lively atmosphere among artists, he continued to develop his critical spirit against party discipline and overly extensive loyalty to the GDR. In 1963 he dealt with Hans Koch's book "Marxism and Aesthetics" in the Weimar articles , which sparked a heated public discussion. Krenzlin criticized the lack of practice of the Marxist aesthetic and invoked the complex concept of appropriation. He also rejected the use of classic citations as a means of legitimation.

In 1960 he returned to the Philosophical Faculty of the HUB as a research assistant to Erwin Pracht . There he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD with a thesis on phenomenology by Edmund Husserl , Waldemar Conrad , Moritz Geiger and Roman Ingarden . This doctoral thesis formed the basis for his later book entitled “The work 'purely for itself' - On the history of the relationship between phenomenology, aesthetics and literary studies” at Akademie-Verlag Berlin.

In the course of the third university reform of 1968, associated with the separation of aesthetics from philosophy and the reorganization of the aesthetics department of the HUB, he had fought for his specialization in newer and newest bourgeois philosophy. Krenzlin explicitly did not deal with theories of socialist realism.

After the university reform, he switched to the aesthetics department of the HUB in 1969.

His habilitation thesis (dissertation B) from 1979 at the HUB was devoted to epistemological problems of aesthetics about "art and truth".

In 1983 he was appointed full professor for the history of the newest and contemporary aesthetics at the HUB. Further scientific work mostly resulted from courses in which other specialist colleagues were also involved. Thereafter, Krenzlin turned to a problem neglected or downplayed in the GDR: the history of “mass culture”. This initiative was supported by a cooperation made possible in the 1980s with scientists from the USA , for which Krenzlin was responsible as GDR coordinator of the IREX sub-commission “Mass Culture”. As part of this collaboration with scientists from the USA, two international conferences were held:

  • on the state of research (Ithaca / USA, 1988) and
  • Mass culture - class culture in the interwar period (Berlin / GDR, 1990).

The results of these conferences appeared in the book “Between fear metaphor and terminus. Theories of mass culture since Nietzsche ”in the Akademie-Verlag in Berlin.

Thanks to a positive evaluation, Krenzlin was able to continue his professorial work even after German reunification in the seminar for aesthetics at the HUB until his retirement in 1999.

Work areas

The main scientific work areas of Krenzlin were and still are:

  • Newer and newest aesthetics,
  • Literary studies,
  • Goethe time .

Publications (selection)

  • Some remarks on Hans Koch's book “Marxism and Aesthetics”. In: Weimarer Contributions 9 (1963) H. 1, pp. 123-140.
  • On the critique of the phenomenological method in aesthetics - a discussion of the literary aesthetic views of Waldemar Conrad, the founder of phenomenological aesthetics. Dissertation, Humboldt University Berlin, Philosophical Faculty 1968.
  • The work 'purely for itself'. On the history of the relationship between phenomenology, aesthetics and literary studies. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979.
  • The maids. The balcony. Pieces by Jean Genet (author) and Norbert Krenzlin (afterword). Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1984.
  • as Ed .: Aesthetics of Resistance - Experiences with the novel by Peter Weiss . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 978-3-05-000428-0 .
  • as editor: Between fear metaphor and terminus - theories of mass culture since Nietzsche . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-05-002065-5 .
  • Marxism and Aesthetics - Attempt to Take Stock. Title giving article in: Volker Gerhardt (Ed.): "Marxism - Attempting to Take Stock." Anthology. Scriptum-Verlag, Magdeburg 2001, pp. 483-508, ISBN 978-3-933046-52-9 .
  • Till Eulenspiegel as an early action artist. In: Eulenspiegel-Jahrbuch, Volume 43, pp. 53–82, ed. from the Freundeskreis Till Eulenspiegels eV Wachholtz Verlag , Kiel 2003, ISSN 0531-2159.
  • The portrait of Wolfgang Heise or of the affliction of knowing people in our time. In: Peter Betthausen ; Ulrike Hager (Ed.): Ronald Paris . In Praise of Realism - Retrospective. Exhibition catalog for exhibitions in Sondershausen, Schwerin and Potsdam. Faber & Faber Verlag, Leipzig 2008, pp. 57-64, ISBN 978-3-86730-063-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Krenzlin, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aesthetician and professor of aesthetics
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin