Am Fenster, in der „Küche des Wetters“: Überlegungen zu einer Poetik des Synoptischen

Abstract

At the Window, in the “Kitchen of the Weather”: Reflections on the Poetics of the Synoptic. The focus of this article is on the interplay between phenomenology and meteorology and its poetics in Czech and Slovak art and literature. The first part of the paper explores the possibilities of the interaction between non-meteorological and meteorological atmospheres in the interwar prose of Ivan Horváth and Milena Jesenská, using the figure of the window scene as an example. The second part of the analysis is devoted to Zdeněk Košeks autodidactic art and the “notational iconicity” (S. Krämer) of his diagrammatic archive of observations on everyday life and the weather in the 1990s. As methodological instruments for the exploration of the poetics of synoptic perception serve rhythmanalytical (H. Lefebvre), meteopoetological (M. Gamper, U. Büttner / I. Theilen) and atmosphere-oriented (G. Böhme, H.U. Gumbrecht, B. Meyer-Sickendiek) approaches.