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Lecture 5 Sturm und Drang / Storm and Stress

• Sturm und Drang within 18th century culture
• Two of Goethes famous Storm and Stress poems
• Lenz, Lied zum teutschen Tanz
• Sources and central concepts of the Sturm und
  Drang
• Centres of the Sturm und Drang
• Goethes life and works (till 1775)

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The Sturm und Drang within 18th century culture

• 1766-1780/1785 quite a short, but influential
  period - often called Geniezeit
• traditionally interpreted as a countermovement
  to Enlightenment and an early stage of German
  Romanticism
• in the last 30 years seen as part of the
  Enlightenment its foremost criticism
• brought along by a new generation of authors
  Herder, Goethe, Klinger, Wagner, Lenz, Schiller

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• Two of Goethes famous Storm and Stress poems
• Prometheus
• written in 1773
• dealing with mythological theme of the demigod
  Prometheus - especially with his revolt against
  Zeus, the Göttervater and Götterherrscher
• the lyrical I defines itself as the creative
  center
• ultimate power for the subject claimed
• Mayfest
• written in 1771 Erlebnislyrik - but
  nevertheless a construct, simulating real
  experiences
• nature as aesthetic space for creating the idea
  of an individually based (centred) totality
• the new language of literature simplicity,
  exclamations, emotions, unity of sound and
  meaning - natural diction (insteaf of poetic
  diction)

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Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz Lied zum teutschen
Tanz (written in the 1770s)
O Angst! o tausendfach LebenO Muth den Busen
geschwelltZu taumeln zu wirbeln zu schwebenAls
giengs so fort aus der WeltKürzer die
BrustAthmet die LustAlles verschwundenWas uns
gebundenFrey wie der WindGötter wir sindFreyer
als WindAch wir nun sindAch wir Götter thun was
uns gefällt
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Sources and central concepts of the Sturm und
Drang
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Centres of the Sturm und Drang
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe his life and works till
1775