ANDRE BUTZER, FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN
Friedrich Hölderlin (17701843) immersed himself deeply in Greek poetry and philosophy, which found expression in his epistolary novel Hyperion and in his translations of Sophocles and Pindar. Following his tragic love for Susette Gontard (Diotima), he spent the last 36 years of his life in the so-called Tübingen Tower under the care of others. In the 20th century, he influenced philosophers like Maurice Blanchot and Martin Heidegger as well as writers like Paul Celan and Peter Handke. Today, he is revered as one of Germanys greatest poets, who is still to be discovered internationally.