Die zweite Generation des Kopenhagener Kreises?

Abstract

Zusammenfassung Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg (1750-1819) grew up in Copenhagen when the circle of literati and scholars around Johann Hartwig Bernstorff was effective there. Klopstock was a family friend and later a mentor to the young count, and Stolberg was also well acquainted with other members of the Copenhagen Circle. He wrote his first poems as a teenager, in 1772 he became a member in the Göttinger Hainbund, and he also had close contact with representatives of the Sturm und Drang. The essay asks about the connection between the Copenhagen Circle and Stolberg’s early work (until about 1780). It focuses on the themes of freedom, fatherland and nature. Can Stolberg’s writing be understood as a result or further development of the cultural effectiveness of the Copenhagen Circle – or as a reaction to it?