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Der Ackermann aus Böhmen
(1962)
Die Hauptschwierigkeit liegt darin, dass im Ackermann zwei Anschauungen vom Menschen zum Ausdruck kommen, die auf den ersten Blick unvereinbar scheinen. Jedoch handelt es sich bei den entgegengesetzten Formulierungen, die Kläger und Tod vortragen, weit weniger um eine weltanschauliche Kontroverse als darum, dass beide aus völlig verschiedenen Perspektiven sprechen. Darauf soll diese Arbeit kurz eingehen. Vor allem aber möchte ich versuchen, ein Hauptteil der Klage des Ackermanns aus der Rolle zu erklären, die die Frau in seiner Weltordnung spielt.
Diese Arbeit soll zeigen, wie Böhme das Böse als Teil des Offenbarungsprozesses Gottes ansieht, ja als Manifestation Gottes, ohne mit der allezeit festgehaltenen Idee der absoluten Gutheit Jehovas in Konflikt zu geraten. Zwar liessen sich dazu eine Reihe von Schriften Böhmes heranziehen, doch schien das Mysterium Magnum (1623) am geeignetsten, weil es sein letztes grösseres Werk ist und einen eigenwilligen Kommentar zur biblischen Schöpfungsgeschichte darstellt, mithin einen Text behandelt, der ebenfalls einen Werdegang beschreibt.
Faust the colonizer
(1995)
"Musst du nicht längst kolonisieren?" ("Hasn't colonizing been your business?") is Mephisto's loaded comment on Faust's dilemma, namely his inability to persuade Philemon and Baucis to vacate their little estate voluntarily in exchange for pleasant retirement quarters in his newly gained territory, wrested from the sea (Faust, Part II, V, line 11274). Baucis in particular sees no reason why they should be displaced and resents Faust's expansiveness. "Wie er sich als Nachbar brüstet, soll man untertänig sein" ("He struts into the neighborhood expecting us to act like serfs," lines 11133/4). "Kolonisieren" as Mephisto uses the word clearly favors strong-arm tactics over restraint. Faust finally gives the go-ahead: "So geht und schafft sie mir zur Seite" ("Go and get them out of there," line 11275) for an attempt at forced resettlement that leaves three more corpses on his path to salvation and is followed by a seamless flow of events culminating in his own death.
Germans against Hitler
(2010)
"The sun shines, and Hitler is master of this city. The sun shines, and dozens of my friends are in prison, possibly dead. Thousands of people like Frl. Schroeder are acclimatizing themselves, like an animal which changes its coat for the winter. After all, whatever government is in power, they are doomed to live in this town." These are among the final entries in Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Diaries. Hitler has legally assumed power and Isherwood, who "can't altogether believe that any of this has really happened," will leave the city he has come to love and return to England. The Nazi Movement that began a decade ago in seedy Bavarian beer halls has now conquered its very antithesis, Prussia. It seems unstoppable. The people, as always, will adapt or perish.
Martin Luther : 1483-1546
(1996)
450 years ago, in the early hours of February 18, the charismatic reformer and fearless combatant who had changed the face of Europe and of Christianity died in his home town of Eisleben while on a peace mission. The feuding Counts of Mansfeldt had asked him to mediate. Accompanied by his three sons, Luther, old at 62 and ailing, made the trip in mid-winter against the advice of friends and family. His body was returned to Wittenberg and buried there on February 22. It is impossible to overestimate his impact. The common priesthood of man, "everybody his own priest", this truly revolutionary notion at the core of his teaching, was immediately recognized for its (unintended) political, democratic implications. To him, all the faithful were one community, there was no room for separate casts. His zeal as a preacher of the "true faith", and his denunciation of those who would not accept it, earned him the reputation of intolerance, even anti-Semitism. The latter would surprise him, for he considered himself a prophet, though anointed against his will, like those of the Old Testament who also admonished, cajoled and condemned the "wayward children of Israel"'
Rilke und die Musik
(1959)
Rilke war im gebräuchlichen Sinne des Wortes unmusikalisch. Er hat das selbst wiederholt zugegeben. Er behielt keine Melodie, so einfach sie sein mochte, und so oft man sie ihm auch vorspielte. Auch seine Freunde berichten von diesem Zug. Hinzu kam eine tiefe Skepsis der Musik gegenüber, in der er etwas Verführendes und Berauschendes sah, was ihn zu einer allerdings kurzfristigen völligen Ablehnung dieser Kunstgattung führte.