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Butzenscheiben lyric (also "gold cut lyric") is a derogatory term for a group of sentimental, historicizing songs, ballads and verse narratives in the second half of the 19th century. The poems thematize ideologized national- heroic motifs of knight culture, minstrels and pseudo-medieval wine, castle and vagabond romance. The romanticizing tendency is also reflected in external characteristics, such as the use of Latin or Middle High German vocabulary, antiquated phrases and painterly rhetoric.
The origins lie in the establishment of the Second Empire under Wilhelm I in 1871. At that time, interest in the German Middle Ages grew stronger as the source and origin of a pure German national sentiment. Similar trends are also found in other literary genres, for example in the form of the historical novel or drama.
The German poet Paul Heyse coined the term .
Gottfried Kinkel , Otto Roquette and above all Joseph Victor von Scheffel (1826–1886) can be seen as forerunners and models of the Butzenscheiben lyric . The main representatives were Rudolf Baumbach (also: Paul Bach, 1840–1905) and Julius Wolff (1834–1910). Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Jordan , Karl Stieler and Friedrich Wilhelm Weber are close to the Butzenscheiben lyric . From 1890 onwards, the Butzenscheiben lyric found declared opponents in the naturalist movement around Hermann Conradi and Arno Holz .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Butzenscheibe lyric. In: Duden. Retrieved May 24, 2016 .
