Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad

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Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad there is a poem by Erich Kästner . It appeared for the first time in 1930 in his collection of poems A man gives information , in 1968 also in the text collection ... which is not in your reading books .

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The poem addresses the desolate life of a worker and ends with his suicide after a long day at work.

construction

The poem has 11 stanzas. The first 10 stanzas have four verses each, the last five.

Literary classification

Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad , it is called utility poetry and, like many other works by Kästner , is attributed to the New Objectivity .

See also

• Burnout syndrome

Individual evidence

1. ^ Barbara Baumann, Brigitta Oberle: German literature in epochs . 2nd Edition. Hueber, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-19-001399-3 , pp. 212-213.