Ludger Lütkehaus, who was awarded the Friedrich Nietzsche Prize in Naumburg in 2009, passed away on November 22 last year in his adopted home of Freiburg im Breisgau, 75, when he was 75. In an obituary, Andreas Urs Sommer writes about him: “Ludger Lütkehaus loved to withdraw from his work, especially the journalistic and academic business, the‘ unfortunate science ’, as he called a polemical booklet in 1994. Lütkehaus developed an actually philosophical art of withdrawing himself, although he was not an academic ’major subject philosopher’ at all, but a literary scholar. He did not become known for Germanic work – in 1976 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Friedrich Hebbel in Freiburg im Breisgau, a few years later he received his habilitation in Siegen, also for Hebbel, visiting professorships in the USA and finally a Germanic honorary professorship in Freiburg im Breisgau. ”His favorites in“ History of World Thought were those who could not be rushed into the city and be seduced by the miserable splendor of the world gears ”such as Kalanos, Job, Günther Anders, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schopenhauer and ultimately, of course, Friedrich Nietzsche.
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