| Title: | Lyrische Antworten auf den Ersten Weltkrieg. Kriegsgedichte des expressionistischen Jahrzehnts |
| Author: | Markus Fischer |
| Publication: | Temeswarer Beiträge zur Germanistik, 15, p. 99-130 |
| p-ISSN: | 1453-7621 |
| Publisher: | Mirton Verlag |
| Place: | Temeswar |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | The paper gives a summary of the German lyrical responses to WWI during the years 1910 until 1920 and deals mainly (but not only) with expressionist poems which were written before and during the Great War. The paper analyses the perception of WWI as a “Gewaltkur” (Matthias Schöning), which according to many contemporaries was to bestow catharsis and purification on a rotten and degenerate age. Most diverse lyrical responses to the Great War are discussed in this paper: from Georg Heym, Ernst Stadler and Ernst Wilhelm Lotz to Alfred Lichtenstein and Rudolf Leonhard, to Ernst Toller and Georg Hecht, to Rainer Maria Rilke and Walter Flex, through to the avant-garde poems of August Stramm who reacted to WWI also formally by the fragmentation of the aesthetic form and through the artistic liberation of semantic valences in his poems. Theoretical reflections on the “Wortkunst” of the “Sturm”-circle round out the overall picture of this paper. |
| Key words: | World War I, war poetry, expressionist poetry, August Stramm, “Wortkunst”, “Sturm”-circle |
| Language: | German |
| Links: |  pdf |
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