Fernand Petitpierre

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Fernand Camille Petitpierre (* 1879 in Murten , Canton Friborg , Switzerland ; † 1972 ), also Petit-Pierre , was a Swiss educator and author who published in addition to his own name using the pseudonyms F. P. Pierre and René Lermite.

family

He was the son of a Swiss industrialist and his wife, the daughter of an old family of scholars in Basel. His nephew was the architect Hugo Petitpierre (1877–1967), who was married to the painter, draftsman and graphic artist Petra Petitpierre (1905–1959), née Frieda Kessinger.

School and study

After attending grammar school in Burgdorf near Bern , from which he passed the Matura test, he decided to study to become a teacher. He completed this at the Universities of Neuchâtel , Geneva and Bern . In 1914 he received his doctorate from the University of Zurich on the German writer, scholar and librarian Wilhelm Heinse on the subject of Heinse in the youth writings of the young Germans .

Professional development

His first job as a teacher offered him the private school Athenaeum in Zurich . Then Petitpierre was briefly tutor on the large Leo Tolstoy estate in Yasnaya Polyana ( Russian Ясная Поляна , German bright clearing ) south of Moscow , which at that time was already being run by his sons Nikolai, Sergej, Dmitrij and Leo. At times he also taught in Saint Petersburg . He then returned to his native Switzerland and taught at the Pestalozzi School in Zurich before moving to Germany to teach French language and literature in Düsseldorf.

From September 1915 to the end of March 1922 and from 1926 to 1931 he worked as a French teacher in the reform pedagogical Free School Community of Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest , where he acted as acting headmaster in 1929/30. In 1922 he had to leave this educational home involuntarily. As evidenced by his letter to Gustav Wyneken , he considered his colleagues Rudolf Aeschlimann , Martin Luserke and Paul Reiner responsible for this, referred to by Petitpierre as a “ triumvirate ”. The three actors had an interest in removing colleagues like Petitpierre, who were confidants and supporters of Wyneken, from the boarding school. There was at least one solid reason for this: Gustav Wyneken, Carl Maria Weber , Otto Peltzer , Petitpierre and others represented the so-called “educational eros”, a basic attitude that can be characterized as ideological delusion, with which they see the Dorian love for boys as their greatest good and perfection The teaching profession, not just theoretically but very practically. Wyneken had to leave school in 1920 because of pedosexual incidents. He had previously been sentenced to one year in prison during the so-called "Eros Trial". Petitpierre, in turn, was accused by the student Kalistros Thielicke (1905–1944) of having come too close to him in a violent way despite his resistance. Petitpierre was a devoted supporter of Wyneken, was in regular contact with him and remained deeply connected to him throughout his life.

In 1931 Petitpierre initially worked on a “press”, as private schools were called at the time, which had specialized in preparing older students for the Matura examination and which also accepted it. After that he was employed at a municipal high school until 1935, which he left voluntarily, "because I could no longer endure the monotony of this inevitable barracks-like structure, despite all the well-intentioned beautification". From the late 1930s to 1962 he was a language teacher at the Juventus private school in Zurich, after which he taught for several years there to prepare older students for the Matura exams.

Under the pseudonym René Lermite, Petitpierre published several books of poetry and short stories colored homoerotically in the 1930s and 1940s. However, he saw himself as a “poète maudit”, an ostracized poet who had neither present nor future.

His estate is in the Lower Saxony State and University Library in Göttingen, but only consists of a few manuscripts.

Publications

  • Heinse in the youth writings of the young Germans . Leemann Brothers & Co., Zurich 1915. OCLC 457579572
  • The school of tomorrow . Cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1925. OCLC 883186963
  • The worker and the school. Words to the workers . E. Graubner, Leipzig 1927 and the cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1927. OCLC 72179307
  • From the spirit of the new school. Words to teachers . Cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1927. OCLC 883178738
  • The construction. A distant picture of the day after tomorrow. [Plan for a] school colony . Cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1931. OCLC 719166611
  • with August Hüppy: Textbook of the French language for the hospitality industry. Cours Pratique de Langue Française . Written on behalf of the Swiss Wirteverein. Publishing house of the Swiss Wirteverein, Zurich 1934. OCLC 72012310
  • as René Lermite (pseudonym): The blue road. A dream game. Cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1937. OCLC 723654303
  • ders .: The dark wandering. One way in poetry . Cell publishing house, Zurich-Zollikerberg 1940. OCLC 250584542
  • ders .: Hymns of the dark wandering . Wegweiserverlag, Zurich 1945. OCLC 603146798
  • ders .: Words to the crowd . Wegweiserverlag, Zurich 1948. OCLC 18404690

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maxi Sickert: Petra Petitpierre - In Search of the Inner Image. In: Zellermayer Galerie Berlin, on: zellermayer.de
  2. ^ Necrologist: Hugo Petitpierre . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Vol. 85, Issue 41, October 12, 1967, p. 755.
  3. ↑ Leonhard Herrmann: Classics beyond the classical. Wilhelm Heinses Wilhelm Heinses »Ardinghello« - Individuality Concept and Reception History . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-1102-3096-3 , pp. 287-288.
  4. ^ Petitpierre, Fernand: Heinse in the youth publications of the young Germans. In: Worldcat, on: worldcat.org
  5. ^ A b c Peter Dudek : “The Oedipus from Kurfürstendamm”. A Wickersdorf student and his matricide in 1930 . Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2026-4 , pp. 57-64.
  6. ^ Letter from Fernand Petitpierre to Gustav Wyneken dated September 5, 1923. In: Archives of the German Youth Movement , Wyneken Estate, No. 769.
  7. ↑ a b c d Peter Dudek: “You are and will remain the old abstract ideologue!” The reform pedagogue Gustav Wyneken (1875–1864). A biography . Julius Klinkhardt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7815-2176-6 , pp. 328–331.
  8. ^ RL: An educational revolution manifesto . In: New ways. Contributions to religion and socialism , No. 6, 1926, pp. 270–271.
  9. ^ Gustav Wyneken: Eros . Adolf Saal Verlag, Lauenburg / Elbe 1921, OCLC 578450089
  10. ↑ Peter Dudek: "The Oedipus from Kurfürstendamm". A Wickersdorf student and his matricide in 1930 . Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7815-2026-4 , p. 56.
  11. ^ Letter from Fernand Petitpierre to Gustav Wyneken dated June 29, 1947. In: Archives of the German Youth Movement, Wyneken Estate, No. 769.
  12. ^ René Lermite's estate [di Fernand Camille Petit-Pierre]. In: Göttingen State and University Library, on: kalliope-staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
personal data
SURNAME Petitpierre, Fernand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petitpierre, Fernand Camille (full name); Petit-Pierre, Fernand; Lermite, René (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Murten , Canton of Friborg , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 1972