Or again, not since the question of whether one can draw a clear and secure line between the noble, pedagogical world of the human spirit, and a world of spirits approached at one’s peril is very much, indeed all too much, part of my topic.įor over two decades a professor at the local high school Universities of Giessen, Jena, Leipzig and between 19, Halle – Leverkuhn was a student thereĪll this is an aside to my topic. Very much at home in that golden sphere where the Holy Virgin was called ‘Jovis alma parens’įounded in the second half of the fifteenth century I was never able to agree fully with our Fuhrer and his paladins on the issue of the Jews and their treatmentīreisacher the independent (Jewish) scholar Kaisersaschern on the Saale, district of Merseberg The grotesque opera suite ‘ Gesta Romanorum’ and the oratorio, ‘ The Revelation of St.
Leverkuhn’s mischievous youthful composition The libretto adapted from Shakespeare’s comedy ‘ Love’s Labours Lost’ In Freisburg on the Isar, 23 May, 1943, two years after Leverkuhn’s death – from the depths of night to deeper night.ĭescendant of the German humanists associated with ‘ Letters of Obscure Men’, an heir to Reuchlin, Crotus of Dornheim, Mutianus, and Eoban Hesseĭid not hesitate to prematurely retire from the teaching position I loved
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