Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2023.2168148
Anhad Arora
ABSTRACT This article considers Fanny Mendelssohn’s 1825 settings of poems from Goethe’s West-östlicher Divan in their manuscript context. I argue that Mendelssohn draws out narratives from Goethe’s ‘Buch Suleika’. She composes a cycle of six songs with two revolutions, each charting the path of love from separation through union to separation again. Investigation of Mendelssohn’s cycle brings her teacher, Carl Friedrich Zelter, into view. The article concludes with a Stammbuch presented by Felix Mendelssohn to his wife, Cécile, in 1844, which featured illustrated musical settings of the Divan by Wilhelm Hensel and Fanny (now) Hensel.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2023.2169094
Mark H. Austin
ABSTRACT While Germany was ravaged by war in winter 1944, Richard Strauss read the complete works of Goethe. During this period, he composed Metamorphosen, usually considered an elegy for Germanic culture with its quotation from Beethoven’s Eroica inscribed ‘In Memoriam’. Goethe’s influence on the work is far greater than hitherto realized. I argue that Strauss’s late choice of title invites a search for the conceptual content of the score. Close analysis of two poems by Goethe copied out in Strauss’s sketchbook, including a musical setting published here in full for the first time, reveals a ‘poetische Idee’ which unifies the multiple layers of meaning within the work. Relating Metamorphosen to its historical context, I interpret the work as a self-portrait of Strauss’s experience reading Goethe.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2023.2168147
R. Schmidt
ABSTRACT In Hoffmanns Kater Murr wird viel geträumt: Menschen und Tiere haben sowohl Nacht- als auch Tagträume, die vom Komischen bis zum Angsterregenden reichen. Der Aufsatz untersucht, wie Tagträume kontrastiv als Mittel psychologischer Charakterisierung fungieren. Am Beispiel der nächtlichen Träume wird die Verflechtung des Romans in die theoretischen und intertextuellen Traumdiskurse seiner Zeit diskutiert, die sowohl spätaufklärerische wie romantische Aspekte umfassen. Träume werden als Signaturen von nicht-bewusstem Wissen sowie Zielen, Entwicklungen und Veränderungen gelesen, die innerhalb der äußerlichen Bruchstückhaftigkeit des Romans einen inneren Zusammenhang herstellen.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2023.2168150
F. Kröll
ABSTRACT Dieser Vortrag beleuchtet die geistige Verwandtschaft von Thomas Mann und Sigmund Freud: er befasst sich mit Momenten der direkten Auseinandersetzung — wie den Schriften Manns über Freud — und mit jenen Gemeinsamkeiten beider Denker, die über bloße Einflussnahme hinausgehen. Der psychologische und analytische Scharfsinn von Manns Werk ging seiner Freud-Lektüre zeitlich voraus, aber er zeigte große Sympathie für die Lehren der Psychoanalyse und erkannte letztere als eine radikal neue Denkweise an. Der Vortrag postuliert, dass Manns und Freuds Denkweisen trotz gelegentlicher Missverständnisse einander ähneln, nicht zuletzt hinsichtlich des ‘lebensfreundlichen Pessimismus’, den beide mit Schopenhauer gemein haben.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2119652
I. Cooper
ABSTRACT The article examines Hölderlin’s poem as a tragic response to Romantic reflection as formulated by Fichte, and in this context shows that the poem’s interest in Klopstock, recognized by recent scholarship, is a critical one. Hölderlin, like Hegel, discerns a continuity between Klopstock’s emphasis on feeling and the problems of Fichtean reflection. The article concludes by looking at the poem’s critical anticipation of later Romantic developments, and its significant relation to Goethe’s ‘Auf dem See’.
摘要本文将霍尔德林的诗歌视为对费希特提出的浪漫主义反思的悲剧回应，并在此背景下表明，这首诗对克洛普斯托克的兴趣是一个关键性的兴趣，这一点得到了最近学术界的认可。霍尔德林和黑格尔一样，在克洛普斯托克对感觉的强调和费希特反思的问题之间发现了连续性。文章最后考察了这首诗对后来浪漫主义发展的批判性预期，以及它与歌德的“Auf dem See”的重要关系。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2119637
Andrew Cusack
ABSTRACT Despite his apparent prominence as one of the five ‘Young German’ writers whose work was banned by the Bundestagsbeschluß of December 1835, Heinrich Laube is an author whose Vormärz publications are underresearched and inadequately contextualized. This essay seeks to reconstruct a European moment in the work of Laube, beginning with his 1832 book on the Polish November Uprising, and ending with the publication of extracts from the novel trilogy Das junge Europa in August Lewald’s literary journal Europa in 1837. The essay argues that Laube’s European moment has been effaced by state censorship and self-censorship, and by the academic politics that have denied Laube scholarship an adequate historical-critical edition of his works.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2119654
Kevin Hilliard, Astrid Köhler, Charlotte I. Lee, Charlie Louth
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2119638
C. Weder
ABSTRACT This essay examines firework scenes in Matthias Claudius and Goethe, reading them in the context of a historical shift in the function of popular spectacles: from the representative role of fireworks in the ancien régime, to their broad availability as commodities in modernity. Claudius portrays that cultural change vividly and as the miniaturization of luxury. In Die Wahlverwandtschaften, meanwhile, the newly domesticated art of firework displays illuminates the link between the fashionable ‘little luxury’ and modern ephemerality. Thus, the following argues that literary representations of luxury around 1800, and of fireworks in particular, are examples of an ephemeral and increasing consumer culture at the time, and reflect contemporary accelerated temporalization. Moreover, the discussion of Goethe allows us to draw a line from Die Wahlverwandtschaften to his concept of the Veloziferisches, as well as making reference to other major works (‘An Schwager Kronos’; Faust).
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2119653
Lasse Hodne
ABSTRACT The book The Tyranny of Greece over Germany (1935) by Eliza Marian Butler is about the development of German intellectual life in the period from Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) onwards. Winckelmann is often seen as the man who gave the impetus to a wave of philhellenism in Germany. According to Butler, German intellectuals’ nostalgic longing for Greece and lack of interest in real societal problems bears much responsibility for the cultural collapse of interwar Germany and the rise of Nazism. The ideas that Butler put forward have been of great importance for those who criticize the political use of classical art in public monuments. Discussing Butler’s points of view, this article will take a critical look at her reasons for attributing such a central role in the cultural decline of interwar Germany to Winckelmann’s philhellenism.
摘要Eliza Marian Butler的《希腊对德国的暴政》（1935）一书讲述了从Johann Joachim Winckelmann（1717–1768）开始德国知识生活的发展。温克尔曼经常被认为是推动德国哲学浪潮的人。根据巴特勒的说法，德国知识分子对希腊的怀旧渴望和对现实社会问题缺乏兴趣，对两次世界大战之间德国的文化崩溃和纳粹主义的兴起负有很大责任。巴特勒提出的观点对那些批评在公共纪念碑中政治使用古典艺术的人来说非常重要。在讨论巴特勒的观点时，本文将批判性地审视她将两次世界大战德国文化衰落中的核心作用归因于温克尔曼的爱乐主义的原因。
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Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1080/09593683.2022.2074285
Thomas Martinec
ABSTRACT The canonical status and topicality of literary texts of the German Enlightenment are often cited as good reasons to teach these texts. In practice, however, the canonical status favours an uncritical approach to literature and leads to the omission of numerous sources that could serve to gain significant insights into the literary life of the time; and the postulate of topicality invites students to neglect the historical quality of the Enlightenment as well as the difference between fact and fiction. Using the example of drama, the article identifies these problems and outlines teaching options that arise from a critical engagement with canon and topicality. It also suggests that teaching the literature of the German Enlightenment is not necessarily easier in German-speaking countries than it is in other parts of the world.
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