Rudolf Fahrner

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Rudolf Fahrner (born December 30, 1903 in Arnau , Austria-Hungary , † February 29, 1988 in Landeck (Tyrol) ) was a German specialist in German .

Life

After finishing school, Fahrner studied in Heidelberg in 1921 and then moved to the Philipps University of Marburg . One of his most important teachers there was Friedrich Wolters , a member of the George Circle . He probably owed the circle's affinity to Friedrich Hölderlin for his doctoral thesis, Hölderlin's encounter with Goethe and Schiller . After his habilitation in 1928 he worked as an author and private lecturer in Marburg . Here he got to know the student Eberhard Zeller , with whom he remained connected until his death. In 1933 he joined the SA . In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . In 1934 he got a job as a university lecturer in Heidelberg . With growing doubts about National Socialism , he applied for a leave of absence in autumn 1935, which came into effect in March 1936.

In the following years, Fahrner devoted himself to his Gneisenau biography. During this time he got to know the brothers Berthold and Claus von Stauffenberg and became friends with them. In 1941 he was appointed head of the German Scientific Institute in Athens . From September 1943, Fahrner was privy to the actions of the resistance fighters around Stauffenberg.

Along with Otto John, Fahrner was the only one of Stauffenberg's closest friends who survived the events of July 20, 1944 . After the end of the Second World War he became an American prisoner of war and then lived for a while in the "Haus am See" in Überlingen on Lake Constance , where members of the former circle around Stefan George had found. These included above all the sculptor Urban Thiersch and his sister Gemma Wolters-Thiersch as well as Alexander von Stauffenberg and his future wife Marlene Hoffmann. Since then he has been very closely connected to Stauffenberg. In 1964, after the death of his friend, he published his friend's poems under the title Monument , a narrow volume containing a haunting characterization. In 1985 he published Mein Leben mit Offa , his memories of Alexander von Stauffenberg , as a private print . In 1950 he became a professor in Ankara until he got a job as a professor at the Technical University of Karlsruhe in 1958 ; he taught there until his retirement in 1972.

Works

  • Poetic visions of human archetypes in Hofmannsthal's work . Ankara 1956.
  • Three games from a thousand and one nights . Printed as a manuscript by Georg Asslinger, Munich 1972.
  • Collected Works . Edited by Stefano Bianca and Bruno Pieger. Volume 1: Poetry and Interpretation . Volume 2: Memories and Documents . Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2008.

literature

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller , man for man. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male sexuality in the German-speaking area , Hamburg 1998, p. 216; Eberhard Zeller, Colonel Claus Graf Stauffenberg. A picture of life , 1994, p. 2.
  2. ↑ See Karl Christ , Der Andere Stauffenberg , CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56960-9 , pp. 13, 145, 186 and others .
personal data
SURNAME Fahrner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnau
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 1988
Place of death Landeck (Tyrol)