Werner Kirchner

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Werner Kirchner (born May 15, 1895 in Capelle ; † September 20, 1961 in Ischia ) was a German Hölderlin researcher . Professionally he was a high school teacher.

Life

After the First World War and the state examination in 1921, he was a teacher at the Odenwald School in Ober-Hambach , where he met the painter Annemarie von Jakimow-Kruse , who was employed there as a drawing teacher, and married in 1933. She brought three children into the marriage. In Heidelberg he received his doctorate in 1927 with the text Studies for a Depiction of Johannes von Müller with Max von Waldberg at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität .

In 1933 he became a teacher in Bad Homburg . In 1946 the family moved to Marburg an der Lahn . His daughter is the romanist and translator Julia Marianne Kirchner (* 1937). Until his retirement in 1957 he was a grammar school teacher at the Philippinum grammar school . He held courses for a few semesters at the University of Marburg, but devoted himself primarily to his literary studies. He researched in particular on Friedrich Hölderlin and Isaac von Sinclair and made significant contributions to Hölderlin's biography.

literature

Publications

  • Studies for a representation of Johannes von Müller. J. Weimar, Heppenheim ad B. 1927
  • Hölderlin: Patmos: Manuscript presented to the Landgrave of Homburg. With an afterword by Werner Kirchner, Mohr, Tübingen 1949
  • The will of Princess Auguste of Hessen-Homburg. In: Hölderlin yearbook 1951
  • Princess Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau and Hölderlin. In: Hölderlin yearbook 1958–1960
  • Holderlin and the sea. In: Hölderlin yearbook 1961–1962
  • Holderlin's draft ‛The peoples were silent, slumbered '. In: Hölderlin yearbook 1961–1962
  • The treason trial against Sinclair. A contribution to the life of Hölderlin. Simons, Marburg / Lahn 1949. - New, improved edition with an afterword provided by Alfred Kelletat. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1969.
  • Holderlin. Essays on his time in Homburg. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1967. ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Kelletat: Werner Kirchner in memory. In: Hölderlin yearbook. 1961/62, pp. 268-272.
  2. ↑ Alessandro Pellegrini : Friedrich Hölderlin: His picture in research. de Gruyter, Berlin 1965, Reprint 2019, p. 453; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Kirchner, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German specialist in German with a focus on Hölderlin
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Capelle , Bitterfeld district
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1961
Place of death Ischia