Ballad year

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In German literary history, the year 1797 is called the ballad year , in which many of Goethe's and Schiller 's most famous ballads were created within a few months , such as Der Zauberlehrling (Goethe) or The Ring des Polykrates (Schiller). The ballads were first published in the Musenalmanach edited by Schiller for the year 1798 , the so-called ballad almanac .

Associated ballads

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Schiller

term

The term comes from a letter from Schiller: "This is also the year of ballads [...]", he wrote to Goethe on September 22, 1797. The term was later used several times in literary studies.

background

The texts were written during a phase of close collaboration between the two poets, who first met in 1788. Schiller was able to win Goethe over to work on the Horen , and later on to work on the Muses Almanac for the year 1798. A fruitful correspondence about poetry and poetry developed. In the resulting at the same time Xenien both poets criticized in aphorisms and satirical manner grievances literature and created a sensation. At the same time, both poets dealt with the theory of literary genres during this time . In this context, the literary form of the ballad received special attention. In his work "On naive and sentimental poetry", Schiller had asked the modern poet to go beyond the state of naivety, since the representation of the ideal makes the poet . In contrast to the folk ballad, the art ballad should consciously convey moral teachings. Shapes and events are subject to the basic idea, the design aims to have a direct impact on the listener or reader with tight action and linguistic momentum. The ballads were assigned the task of asking the recipient to participate and evaluate, to show him his possibilities of human action and to compare the ballad world with his previous life experience - according to Goethe, the reader should "enjoy the literature judging". In addition, the texts should demonstrate the variety of linguistic beauties of the German language.

Emergence

Both poets agreed to write a larger number of ballads in order to realize their theoretical intentions literarily: We have united to include several ballads in this year's almanac and to enlighten ourselves in this work about the subject matter and treatment of this type of poetry [...]. The texts were created in a kind of artistic competition, but were often discussed in writing before their publication. Most of the ballads appeared in the Musenalmanach for the year 1798 at the end of September 1797.

Reception history

Although the xenias were given a higher priority than the ballads in contemporary understanding, the latter have found their way into school reading in German education because of their broad targeting and didactic intention.

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  1. ^ Ballad on Literaturwelt.com, accessed on April 11, 2008 ( Memento from August 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Musenalmanach 1798 - Friedrich Schiller Archive. In: friedrich-schiller-archiv.de. February 1, 2011, accessed October 19, 2018 .
  3. ^ Letter from Schiller to Goethe dated September 22, 1797 . knowledge-im-netz.info. Archived from the original on November 9, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ See dtv-Atlas zur deutschen Literatur, Munich, 7th edition 1983, p. 167; Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon, Vol. 6, Keyword Goethe, Correspondence between Schiller and Goethe, p. 449.
  5. ↑ cf. Goethe / Schiller: About epic and dramatic poetry. Made in 1797, first printed in: Kunst und Altertum. Stuttgart 1827, Vol. 6, Issue 1; Goethe / Schiller: On epic and dramatic poetry ( Memento from November 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Text edition in Wissen-im-Netz: Die sentimentalischen Dichter ( Memento from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Goethe to Johann Heinrich Meyer on July 14, 1797, Berlin edition, vol. 15, p. 320

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ballad Year  - Sources and Full Texts