[4] It was at Reinhardt's regular Saturday morning gatherings that he met Max Kommerell[5] and his student contemporary Dorothea Lohmeyer, whom in 1940 he married.
However, his dissertation, which concerned the use of the Ekkyklema machine in Greek drama,[7] was not published and he was obliged to provide the party with a statement that he would never apply to become a professor.
After a period in England, in 1954 Hölscher was appointed a professor at the recently launched Free University of Berlin.
His work covered early Greek epic poetry, especially that of Homer, and Pre-Socratic philosophy.
His best known book is a justification for classical philology, "Die Chance des Unbehagens - Zur Situation der klassischen Studien" (1965).