Rudolf Pannwitz

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Rudolf Pannwitz

Rudolf Pannwitz (born May 27, 1881 in Crossen / Oder, today Krosno Odrzańskie , † March 23, 1969 in Astano / Ticino ) was a German writer and philosopher .

Life

After attending grammar school, Pannwitz studied philosophy, classical philology , German and Sanskrit in Marburg and Berlin and taught as a private teacher. The first poems appeared in Stefan George's Blätter für die Kunst . Pannwitz also wrote political contributions for the world stage . With Otto zur Linde , Pannwitz published the magazine Charon . He achieved fame with his book The Crisis of European Culture . From 1921 he lived first on the island of Koločep and later on the neighboring island of Korcula (Dalmatia) with several like-minded people. In a story, Pannwitz vividly describes the coexistence on the islands. Pannwitz was expelled from the Prussian Academy of the Arts in 1933 after refusing the declaration of loyalty required by the National Socialist regime. In 1948 Pannwitz moved to Switzerland near Lake Lugano (Ciona). There I met Hermann Hesse. Through the mediation of the Nobel Prize winner, Pannwitz moved into a house in Astano . A long friendship developed. Rudolf Pannwitz wrote an essay on the "Steppenwolf". Hesse asked for permission to publish the prose piece. In the foreword to the edition he writes: "For my 85th birthday Rudolf Pannwitz gave me this essay as a present and, on my suggestion, allowed it to be printed here."

Since 1952 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . In 1953, the tradition of honorary pay for artists was reintroduced in the Federal Republic of Germany. Two years later, as reparation, the material donation was paid to him by the President's office. As a result, he received the Federal Cross of Merit, the Schiller and the Andreas Gryphius Prize.

Works (in selection)

  • The elementary school teacher and the German language , Berlin 1907
  • The elementary school teacher and German culture , Berlin 1909
  • On the form of the church , Wittenberg 1912
  • Dionysian tragedies , Nuremberg 1913
  • Human freedom , Nuremberg 1917
  • The crisis of European culture , Nuremberg 1917 (at archive.org )
  • Germany and Europe , Nuremberg 1918
  • Baldur's death , Nuremberg 1919
  • German teaching , 1919
  • Faustus and Helena , Nuremberg 1920
  • From chaos to community , Munich-Feldafing 1921
  • Orplid , Munich 1923
  • The new life , Munich-Feldafing 1927
  • The German idea of ​​Europe , Munich-Feldafing 1931
  • Lebenshilfe , Zurich 1938
  • The Age of the World and Politics , Zurich 1948
  • Contributions to a European Culture , Nuremberg 1954
  • Communism, fascism, democracy , Zurich 1961
  • Water will ball itself , Stuttgart 1963
  • A selection from his work . Edited by Erwin Jaeckle. Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03936-8
  • Undine. A postponed verse epic . With an essay on the life and work of the poet, ed. by Gabriella Rovagnati. Nuremberg 1999, ISBN 3-418-00574-8

literature

  • Alessandro Gamba, Mondo disponibile e mondo prodotto. Rudolf Pannwitz filosofo , Vita e Pensiero, Milano 2007. ISBN 88-343-1624-X
  • Alfred Guth: Rudolf Pannwitz. Un européen, penseur et poète allemand en quête de totalité, 1881 - 1969 . Paris 1973. ISBN 2-252-01436-9
  • Stefan Jordan:  Pannwitz, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 35 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gabriella Rovagnati (ed.), "The spirit is the king of the elements". The poet and philosopher Rudolf Pannwitz , Bücken & Sulzer, Overath 2006. (Contributions from the Milan Pannwitz conference on May 6, 2004; contributions by Ulrich von Bülow, Marco Castellari, Elio Franzini, Hans-Albrecht Koch, Andreas Mauz, Marco Meli, Gabriella Rovagnati, Martin Stern )
  • Udo Rukser: About the thinker Rudolf Pannwitz . With an autobiography by Pannwitz and a bibliography. Meisenheim (am Glan) 1970 (monographs on philosophical research 64).
  • Marc-Oliver Schuster, 'Rudolf Pannwitz' uses of the term postmodern in terms of culture and philosophy . In: Archive for Conceptual History 47 (2005): 193–215.
  • László V. Szabó: Renascimentum Europaeum: Studies on Rudolf Pannwitz . Frank & Timme , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7329-0185-2 .
  • Ferdinand Ruigrok van de Werve: Emmy Gotzmann. Colorful power in difficult times . Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2015, pages 200. ISBN 978-3-86935-256-5

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Ruigrok van de Werve: Emmy Gotzmann. Colorful power in difficult times . Ludwig Verlag p. 114
  2. ^ Rudolf Pannwitz: Das neue Leben, Munich 1927
  3. ^ Excluded, resigned: 1933 to 1938. In: Akademie der Künste (speeches by Klaus Staeck and Wolfgang Thierse on the inauguration of the inscription on May 7, 2008).
  4. ↑ László V. Szabó: Renascimentum europaeum: studies of Rudolf Pannwitz . Frank & Timme , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7329-0185-2 , p. 200.
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Ruigrok van de Werve: Emmy Gotzmann. Colorful power in difficult times . Ludwig Verlag, p. 122
personal data
SURNAME Pannwitz, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural philosopher, writer and critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Cross , or
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1969
Place of death Astano , Ticino