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Rudolf Kreis (* 1926 in Neuwied ; † April 13, 2016 in Grassau ) was a German literary scholar .

Life

Rudolf Kreis grew up in a petty-bourgeois and strictly Catholic milieu; in the spring of 1936 he joined the Hitler Youth . His mother was admitted to an "insane asylum" in 1941 after attempting suicide . What Kreis only found out in 1948 was that she was murdered as part of the euthanasia under National Socialism . At sixteen, Kreis reported to the SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth , which was destroyed by the Allied forces in Normandy in 1944 . Kreis survived and became the youngest Junker of the Waffen-SS at the SS-Panzer-Junker-Sonder-Lehrgang in Königsbrück .

In 1945 he was taken prisoner of war and after his release made up for the Abitur. He studied German, English and art history and completed his studies with a doctorate. He worked as a grammar school teacher in Wülfrath and supported the youth revolt from 1968 . In addition to his German studies, Kreis worked on the requirements of the National Socialist ideology in his writings.

Kreis last lived as a writer near the Chiemsee and died at the age of 89 on April 13, 2016 in Grassau.

Fonts (selection)

  • The dead are always the other. A youth between the wars . Berlin: Landt, 2009.
  • To the genealogy of crime without criminals . in: Menorah. Yearbook for German-Jewish History, 2003.
  • Who wrote the Nibelungenlied? A perpetrator profile . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 2002.
  • Anti-Semitism and the Church. In the gaps in German history with Heine, Freud, Kafka and Goldhagen . Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1999.
  • Elements of politics . Munich: Verl. Für Wehrwiss., 1996.
  • Kafka's "Process" . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1996.
  • Nietzsche, Wagner and the Jews . Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1995.
  • To answer the question of whether Ernst Nolte or Nietzsche went “astray” with Judaism . In: Aschkenas , 2nd year, 1992.
  • The Nietzsche myth of the earth kingdom . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1991.
  • Poetry and the Environment . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 1989.
  • The crucified Dionysus. Friedrich Nietzsche's childhood and genius. On the genesis of a philosophy of the turning point Würzburg: Königshausen and Neumann, 1986 ( Lloyd deMause , the historian of childhood, appropriated in friendship )
  • The hidden story of the child in German literature. German lessons as psychohistory. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1980.
  • Aesthetic communication as a production of wishes. Goethe - Kafka - Handke. Literature analysis on the "Guide of the Body". Bonn: Bouvier, 1978.
  • Franz Kafka's double speech . Paderborn: Schöningh, 1976.
  • with Lothar Bredella ; Christa Bürger : From the romantic social criticism to the affirmation of imperialism. Tieck, Keller, Kipling. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1974.
  • Is Europe a political misconstruction? Cologne: self-published, 1970.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Lombard: Obituary for Rudolf Kreis , freiewelt.net, April 22, 2016, accessed on October 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Rudolf Kreis: The hidden story of the child , 1980, dedication
personal data
SURNAME Circle, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuwied
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2016
Place of death Grassau