Northwestern University Press and Hugo Friedrich

When Northwestern University Press published Joachim Neugroschel's translation of Hugo Friedrich's Die Struktur der modernen Lyrik in 1974 they included a page "About the author" and a multi-page timeline.

Page ix tells us that Friedrich became a professor in Freiburg in 1937.

It goes on to tell us that iin 1957 he became a regular member of the German Academy of Language and Literature.

His habilitationschrift was on anti-romanticism in France.

There is no mention of Heidegger, Benno von Wiese or Hannah Arendt.

The note on the author in this translation presumes to tell us that he owe the most to a long list - including Jaspers  - but where is Heidegger.  Another absence.

We are left to determine whether the French occupying forces arrested Friedrich in 1944 or 1945 (as reported by Hugo Ott.)

We are left to puzzle over his lengthy absence from the rolls of the Academy.

His book, now something of a classic, has no mention of Hoelderlin or Heidegger.

Klaus L. Berghahn in his article on Celan offers a clue concerning Friedrich on expressionism.  As Arendt would declaim in The Human Condition, "Expressionist art, but not abstract art, is a contradiction in terms."

It was none other than Hugo Friedrich who put Arendt in touch with Heidegger in 1950, providing his address.