Wolfgang Heise

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Peter Wolfgang Heise (born October 8, 1925 in Berlin ; † April 10, 1987 there ) was a German philosopher who taught utopian philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Life

Wolfgang Heise's family was persecuted during the Nazi era . His mother had to because of their Jewish ancestry forced labor afford and his father William Heise received because of his wife disbarment . In 1946 his father was the dean of the pedagogical faculty at Berlin University when Heise began studying philosophy there, which he completed in 1952 with a dissertation on Johann Christian Edelmann . In 1963 he completed his habilitation on the subject of “Developmental tendencies in modern bourgeois philosophy in Germany”.

Heise was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and was honored with the GDR National Prize.

He was married to the literary scholar Rosemarie Heise . Their son Thomas Heise is a well-known documentary filmmaker.

student

Among the students Heise taught were the later dissidents Rudolf Bahro and Wolf Biermann , who described Heise as “probably the only correct philosopher in the whole of the GDR” when he was subsequently presented with his certificate as a graduate philosopher in 2008 and added that Heise was one of those who clung to Marx's utopia of a liberated society, but at the same time could not cope with the restrictive conditions in the GDR. Biermann sang:

My teacher Wolfgang Heise
In the war of illusions
An orphan of wisdom
And broke because of it Set off
for the last journey
In the year eighty-
seven Has hated his fatherland
His heart stopped from rebellion
He was my GDR Voltaire,
Because he saw through always
also his own illusion
Ce qui touche le cœur ...

Fonts

  • Gerd Irrlitz, Ernst Müller (ed.): Writings in two volumes . Volume 1: Writings 1975–1987 . Volume 2: From his life and thoughts . Stroemfeld, Frankfurt am Main / Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-86600-153-4 .

literature

documentary

  • Home is a space made of time. Documentary by Thomas Heise about three generations of his family, D / AT 2019, 219 minutes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Wurm: "The East is a pimple". In: taz.de. February 9, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Documentary filmmaker with a penchant for cruelty. In: Der Tagesspiegel. February 14, 2019, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Wolf Biermann: Wolfgang Heise - my GDR Voltaire , lecture on the occasion of the award of the honorary doctorate, November 7, 2008, public lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin, issue 155, 2009, edoc.hu-berlin.de (PDF)
  4. ↑ Kerstin Decker : Berlinale: Documentary filmmakers with a penchant for cruelty , Tagesspiegel , February 11, 2019
  5. ↑ Steffen Wagner: Heimat is a space from time by Thomas Heise , festivalblog.com , February 10, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Heise, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1987
Place of death Berlin