Hölderlin and Heidegger

This master's thesis attempts to systematically analyze Martin Heidegger's understanding of Friedrich Hölderlin's oeuvre. The investigation is not carried out as a possible contextualization of Heidegger's thought in the light of one of an important source, but as an examination of the relevance of Heidegger's interpretation of Hölderlin regarding the intentions and meanings of Hölderlin himself, which we try to reconstruct. The goal is to scrutinize to what extent Heidegger's appropriation of Hölderlin - which should have the character of a fundamental starting point for the former - really coincides with the values Hölderlin used as orientation. For the sake of an adequate understanding, the interpretation, besides the textual analysis of Heidegger's explication of Hölderlin, concentrates on a comparative-synthetic description of the philosophical and poetological standpoints of Hölderlin's time and work, especially and programmatically on the the mostly overlooked non-idealistic influences. Key words: Hölderlin, Heidegger, Herder, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, German idealism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Phenomenology being, consciousness, judgment, languag