General German rhyme association

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Emil Jacobsen as Hunold Müller von der Havel

The Allgemeine Deutsche Reimverein (ADR) was founded by Emil Jacobsen in Berlin at the beginning of the 1880s and existed until around 1902. Every 14 days people met in Haußmann's wine tavern on Jägerstrasse. The purpose and goals of the association were summarized in two guiding principles: "Rhyming must become the national occupation of all Germans" and "Sense and thought must be subject to rhyme". Ultimately, however, it was a matter of parodying the “gold cut and slug of slice lyric” (songs) and caricaturing poets' associations in general and their activities in particular.

Ludwig Pietsch characterizes the association and its activities as follows:

“The 'revolution in German literature', the so-called 'founding German movement', which announced itself so noisily and confidently in the 1980s, had incited Jacobsen and his friends and like-minded people, the loud-mouthed callers in the dispute, the leaders of these young storm columns, with everyone To fight arrows and slings of satire and witty ridicule. [...] Again he was driven to realize a new, whimsical joke idea with all the solemn solemnity together with those friends and thus to create his own piece of bizarre fantasy world in which he settled down comfortably and designated his friends who were gifted with understanding, at least from time to time to let it be there with him, to speak his language with him and to respond to his funny folly. He founded the "Allgemeine Deutsche Reimverein" (General German Rhyme Association) made up of unreal, nonexistent personalities. For its president he created a highly comical figure who was convinced of its literary importance: the poet Hunold Müller von der Havel. "

The Aeolian Harp Almanac from 1886

However, the ADR had serious goals. Today's reader of the prosaic and rhyming products of the association's members can even get the impression that seriousness and dignity were the basic elements and, so to speak, the medium of the association's work, in the spirit of Jacobsen's verses:

“I don't like humor and wit;
if you don't have it, you don't like it.
You get much further with time
through calm, seriousness and sobriety. "

Association member Julius Stinde also emphasizes the importance of seriousness when he writes:

"If you fend for your Leyer,
do it seriously and solemnly."

The Aeolian Harp Almanac from 1896, cover illustration

The fighting was primarily against amateurism and excesses in all areas of art. The naturalism that of Karl Henckell mentioned lyrical movement "Green Germany", the then literary and literary quirks, but also individual poets like Richard Dehmel and Max Dauthendey were ridiculed. At the get-togethers, the members' most successful rhyme products (in terms of the association's principles) were first presented, but then the new publications in the literary publishing book trade were critically appreciated.

Most of the members of the association did not work under their real names. As in Gottfried Keller's Abused Love Letters , the self-poets and other members gave themselves melodious names:

Further members were the painters Richard Knötel , Carl Röchling and Fritz Paulsen , the court preacher Emil Frommel , the pedagogue Karl Kehrbach , the musician Friedrich Mannstädt and the prehistorian Eduard Krause , a son-in-law of Jacobsen.

"External members" such as Hans Hoffmann and Florentine Böttcher, represented by different people, deceased such as Eduard Hinzpeter (innkeeper and poet from Kötzschenbroda ), the rentier Fritsch ("formerly a poet") and honorary member Friederike Kempner were important contributors despite their frequent absence for club work. Fictional members with names like Isidor Rosenstein, Guido von Posematzki, Kuno von Waldenburg and Feodor Wichmann-Leuenfels were also productive in the interests of the association. Wichmann-Leuenfels also appears as a figure in Stinde's The Buchholz family and Emil Jacobsen is portrayed in Heinrich Seidel's Leberecht Chicken as "Doctor Havelmüller".

The aeolian harp

Poems, essays and critical discussions that arose from this association activity appeared in the journal Die Aeolsharfe. There is, of course, a special reason for this organ of the association: only number 8 of the third year exists. Nonetheless, in this issue reference is made continuously to earlier numbers of the sheet. In 1886 the aeolian harp calendar appeared with 88 pages, in 1888 volume 2 as an aeolian harp almanac (128 pages), which also appeared in a second edition in 1896, and volume 3 (145 pages) in 1896.

literature

  • Ludwig Pietsch : Obituary for Emil Jacobsen . In: Vossische Zeitung of February 26, 1911
  • Heinrich Wolfgang Seidel : Memories of Heinrich Seidel . 2nd Edition. Cotta, Stuttgart and Berlin 1912. Therein on p. 111–148 "The General German Reimverein (Doctor Havelmüller)"
  • Adolf Heilborn : The general German rhyme association . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte 55 (1940/41) pp. 95–99
  • Paul Lindenberg : It was worth living . Memories. Schlegel, Berlin 1941, pages 92-95
  • Jochen Meyer (Ed.): Berlin - Province. Literary controversies around 1930 (Marbacher Magazin 35, 1985)
  • Alfred Liede: Poetry as a game: studies on nonsense poetry at the borders of language (1st edition 1963). 2nd edition: With an addendum Parody , supplementary selected bibliography, name register and a foreword newly published. by Walter Pape. de Gruyter, Berlin 1992.
  • Ulrich Goerdten (Hrsg.): News from Theophil Ballheims Dicht-Lehr-Anstalt for adults. 2., through Ed. Luttertaler handshake, Bargfeld 1992, ISBN 3-928779-04-4
  • Wulf Wülfing, Karin Bruns and Rolf Parr: Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and unions 1825–1933 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, pages 5-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Pietsch: Obituary for Emil Jacobsen. In: Vossische Zeitung of February 26, 1911.