GERMAN 292:  SURVEY OF GERMAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE


Romantik
Caspar David Friedrich was one of the most important painters of the period.  Click on his name to learn more.

 

Epoche Frühromantik Hochromantik Spätromantik
Wann 1795-1805 1805-1815 1815-1835
Wo Jena Heidelberg Berlin
Hauptthemen Ideale (z.B. Universalpoesie) romantisierte deutsche Vergangenheit die Groteske
einflußreiches Werk Wilhelm Meister (Goethe) Kinder u. Hausmärchen (Brüder Grimm) Das Fräulein von Scuderi (E.T.A. Hoffmann)
Wer August Wilhelm Schlegel, Friedrich Schlegel, Friedrich Schelling, Ludwig Tieck, Novalis Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Achim und Bettina von Arnim, Clemens Brentano Adalbert von Chamisso, E.T.A. Hoffmann

Here is a link to a course site with good information on German Romanticism (although be careful of the typos): http://www.bsu.edu/classes/warner/GER402/romantik.html


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