Education
Pannwitz was educated at the University of Marburg before moving to Berlin to continue studying.
Pannwitz was educated at the University of Marburg before moving to Berlin to continue studying.
Pannwitz"s elusive, difficult goal may be seen as the complete re-evaluation of man, art, science and culture envisaged as the expression of an evolving cosmos obeying the laws of eternal recurrence, with Nietzsche-Zarathustra as the supreme prophet. Pannwitz"s poem "Das Totengedicht" was published in George"s literary magazine, Blätter für die Kunst. George and Nietzsche were lasting influences upon Pannwitz.
In 1904 Pannwitz cofounded the periodical Charon with Otto zur Linde, co-editing it until 1906.
His 1917 book The Crisis of European Culture impressed Hugo von Hofmannsthal, though Hofmannsthal later distanced himself from Pannwitz. From 1921 to 1948 Pannwitz lived on the small island of Koločep.
His thought combined nature philosophy, Nietzsche, an opposition to nihilism and pan-European internationalism:.
Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung.
