Norbert von Hellingrath

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Norbert von Hellingrath

Friedrich Norbert Theodor von Hellingrath (born March 21, 1888 in Munich , † December 14, 1916 near Douaumont ) was a German Germanist who rediscovered the poet Friedrich Hölderlin .

Life

In 1906 Hellingrath began studying Greek and German philology at the University of Munich . His teachers here were mainly Otto Crusius and Friedrich von der Leyen , who introduced him to Friedrich Hölderlin. In November 1909 Hellingrath discovered late hymns and Pindar transmissions by Friedrich Hölderlin in the Stuttgart library , copies of which he immediately sent to friends and acquaintances. His friend Karl Wolfskehl , a member of the George Circle , passed it on to Stefan George , who immediately went to Hellingrath and made it possible for him to publish it for the first time in his Blätter für die Kunst (9th episode, February 1910). The spectacular find quickly became known. The first provisional book edition followed in 1910 ( Hölderlin's Pindar transmissions , Verlag der Blätter für die Kunst), and in 1912 Hellingrath, supported by his friends Edgar Salin and Wolfgang Heyer, began to publish a Hölderlin work, the first volume of which appeared in 1913 . Hellingrath also dealt with the Pindar transmissions in his dissertation.

Norbert von Hellingrath as a soldier in the First World War

Hellingrath's discovery had an enormous impact on the literary and scientific world in Germany of his time. Hölderlin, until then hardly noticed, was increasingly recognized as one of the most important German poets. From then on, Stefan George stylized him as one of his most important spiritual ancestors and thus prompted important scientists from his influential circle to also deal with Holderlin. Max Kommerell, for example, dealt extensively with Holderlin in his work The Poet as a Leader in German Classical Music (1928).

The discoveries and their edition also had a great impact on the academic youth. Looking back, Klaus Mann wrote that at the beginning of the First World War , the youth of that time believed that they would have to die for a "Hölderlinian Germany [...]". Even Carl Schmitt wrote later: "Youth Without Goethe '(Max Kommerell), which was for us since 1910 in concrete youth with Hölderlin [...] Norbert von Hellingrath is more important than Stefan George and Rilke." The discoveries also influenced many other writers who dealt with Hölderlin, for example Walter Benjamin , whose early essay Two Poems by Friedrich Hölderlin is clearly influenced by Hellingrath's approaches, and Martin Heidegger , who presented one of the most important Hölderlin interpretations of the 20th century.

Hellingrath himself, who initially struggled with George's poetry but found access in 1908, became a recognized member of the George circle. He confessed to the Georgian “ secret Germany ” and, according to his own statement, linked his “next hopes for the future of the world with the name Stefan Georges”. However, he was unable to finish his work for Holderlin and George. In 1914 he went to war with issues of Holderlin and George in his luggage. After a riding accident, he returned home in 1915, where he gave two lectures about Hölderlin and the Germans and Hölderlin's madness . In addition to his best friend Wolfskehl, his listeners included Rainer Maria Rilke , Alfred Schuler and Ludwig Klages . In 1916 he fell in the Battle of Verdun near Douaumont. Friedrich Seebass and Ludwig von Pigenot continued his edition of the Hölderlin works - Hellingrath had edited the fourth and fifth volumes .

Fonts

Pindar transmissions (1911)
  • Pindar transmissions from Hölderlin. Prolegomena to a first edition . Eugen Diederichs, Jena 1911 (also dissertation, Berlin 1910; digitized version ).
  • Holderlin. Two lectures: Hölderlin and the Germans. Holderlin's madness . 2nd Edition. Hugo Bruckmann, Munich 1922 ( digitized version ).

Estate / letters

  • Hölderlin legacy . Introduced and edited by Ludwig von Pigenot. 1st edition 1936, 2nd increased edition 1944, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munich 1944.
  • Ludwig von Pigenot: Letters from Norbert von Hellingrath's estate . In: Hölderlin-Jahrbuch 13, 1963/1964, pp. 104–146.
  • Bruno Pieger: Unknown things from the estate of Norbert von Hellingrath . In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society 36, 1992, pp. 3-38.
  • Rainer Maria Rilke, Norbert von Hellingrath: Letters and Documents . Edited by Klaus E. Bohnenkamp. Göttingen 2008 (= Castrum Peregrini, New Episode 1).

literature

  • Martin Glaubrecht:  Hellingrath, Norbert v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 481 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bruno Pieger: An experience with poetry. Hellingrath as a reader of the 'Seventh Ring' and the 'Stern' . In: Wolfgang Braungart , Ute Oelmann, Bernhard Böschenstein (eds.): Stefan George. Work and effect since the 'Seventh Ring' . Max Niemayer Verlag, Tübingen 2001, ISBN 3-484-10834-7 , pp. 335-352.
  • Bruno Pieger: Karl Wolfskehl and Norbert von Hellingrath. The trace of a friendship . In: Castrum Peregrini 239-240, 1999, pp. 115-132.
  • Bruno Pieger: “We were first born in our younger days”. Norbert von Hellingrath in his letters to Imma von Ehrenfels . In: Castrum Peregrini 256-257, pp. 60-83.
  • Hertha Wittmann Kirschbaum: The triumvirate "Hellingrath - Pigenot - Seebass"; in: LvPigenot, Hölderlins "Friedensfeier", Munich 1979, p. 31 ff.

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Remarks

  1. ^ In addition, Salin's descriptive descriptions in Edgar Salin, Um Stefan George , 2nd edition, Düsseldorf / Munich 1954, pp. 102-104, 118-120.
  2. ↑ Max Kommerell, The Poet as a Leader in German Classics. Klopstock, Herder, Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, Hölderlin , Berlin 1928. On the significance of Hellingrath's discoveries for George and his circle, cf. such as Thomas Karlauf , Stefan George. The discovery of charisma , Pantheon, Munich 2008, pp. 406–409.
  3. ↑ Klaus Mann, Stefan George. Führer der Jugend , 1928, in: Klaus Mann, Die neue Eltern. Essays, speeches, reviews. 1924–1933 , edited by Uwe Naumann and Michael Töteberg , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992, p. 199. Quoted from Karlauf, Stefan George , p. 408.
  4. ↑ Diary entry from May 18, 1948, in: Carl Schmitt, Glossarium. Notes from the years 1947–1951 , edited by Eberhard Freiherr von Medem, Berlin 1991, p. 152.
  5. ^ Momme Brodersen: Walter Benjamin , Frankfurt am Main, 2005, p. 69.
  6. ↑ On this, Pieger, Experience with Poetry , p. 338f.
  7. ↑ Cf. Norbert von Hellingrath, Hölderlin and the Germans. Lecture , in: Norbert von Hellingrath, Hölderlin- Vermächtnis, Munich 1936, pp. 123–153, here pp. 124f. Karlauf, Stefan George , p. 409.
  8. ^ Letter to Friedrich von der Leyen, May 7, 1910, in: Norbert von Hellingrath, Hölderlin-Vermächtnis , 2nd edition, Munich 1944, p. 226.
  9. ^ Karlauf, Stefan George , p. 430.
  10. ↑ On the lecture in which Loulou Albert-Lasard and Regina Ullmann also took part, cf. Karlauf, Stefan George , p. 408f.
personal data
SURNAME Hellingrath, Norbert von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hellingrath, Friedrich Norbert Theodor von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1916
Place of death at Douaumont