Die Moderne ist, literarisch gesehen, erst einmal ein Sprachprojekt. Und Lyrik gilt als Paradigma der Moderne: In Gedichttexten lösen sich die Fesseln der Tradition. - Friedrich Nietzsche ruft „Sprache als Kunst" aus, und Dichter der Moderne um 1900 folgen, jeweils auf ihre Weis…
Stefan George (1868-1933) was one of the most important figures in modern German culture. His poetry, in its originality and impact, has been ranked with that of Goethe and HoÌlderlin. Yet George's reach extended beyond the sphere of literature. In the early 1900s, he gathered …
The ideas of the George Circle profoundly affected Germany's educated middle class, especially in the aftermath of the First World War, when their critique of bourgeois liberalism, materialism, and scholarship ('Wissenschaft') as well as their call for new forms of leadership ('…