Walter Fränzel

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Walter Fränzel (born August 11, 1889 - † April 27, 1968 ) was a German philologist, representative of the life reform movement, philologist , school founder and author of plays.

Life

Fränzel studied at the University of Jena . There he was chairman of the free students who demanded and practiced a neo-humanistic mindset and democratic academic self-government and polemicized against “bread” as well as “beer students”. In enthusiasm for the youth movement he had there that from Sera-father led and publisher Eugen Diederichs Sera circle connected. In 1913 he was with us on the Hoher Meissner, where the Sera people performed Goethe's Iphigenie.

Fränzel had a close exchange of ideas with the communist Karl Korsch . In an edition of 602 Korsch letters from 1908 to 1939, over 100 were addressed to Fränzel. The friendship broke with the radicalization of Korsch in the First World War.

In 1914 Fränzel translated with Julius Frankenberger The Laughter by Henri Bergson . After his doctorate and the First World War, he joined the management of the Thuringian Adult Education Center in Jena. From 1920 to 1924 he and his wife Elise Kehding ran the Ernst Abbe youth home of the Zeiss works . Also founded adult education centers and youth hostels in Thuringia and organized exhibitions, including a. also for the Art Nouveau painter Fidus . In 1927 Fränzel founded the naturist alternative school Lichtschulheim Lüneburger Land together with his wife . The spirit of the Sera circle, the hiking trips, solstice celebrations, folk dance and folk song, the sense for art, culture and literature, for foreign peoples and cultures had Dr. Fränzel coined. This spirit, combined with the ideas of life reform, especially vegetarianism and nudism, he adopted into the program of his school foundation. With this he also realized the ideas of the educator Adolf Koch . Fränzel himself worked as a teacher in Berlin during this time .

Fonts

  • History of translation in the 18th century. Leipzig 1913/1914.
  • People's State and High School: Fantasies of a Homecoming. Jena 1919.
  • Germany in the century of Frederick the Great and the young Goethe. Gotha 1921.
  • Ulenspiegel. A game of fun in seven songs. Rudolstadt 1925.
  • Worksheet for secondary schools / Worksheet E. / 18th Study Tour of an English School. 1928.
  • The blacksmith of Ghent. Acting in 3 acts. Potsdam 1934.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Work in Jena. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
  2. ^ History of the LLL. Retrieved December 18, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Fränzel, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, representative of the life reform movement, philologist, school founder and author of plays
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1889
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1968