The youngest Alsace

The youngest Alsace (also Der Stürmerkreis ) was an artist group in Strasbourg .

history

In Strasbourg, the capital of what was then Alsace-Lorraine , young painters and students founded the so-called Stürmerkreis in 1902, whose short-lived magazine Der Stürmer (January – November 1902) claimed to revolutionize German culture from Alsace.

The members of the “Youngest Alsace” saw themselves as an alternative to the conservative national Alsa-Bund , an association of literary teachers and pastors with its Erwinia magazine . The group activities included a.

the Germanist and poet Ernst Stadler
the writer , essayist and translator René Schickele
the writer Otto Flake
the Dadaist and surrealist painter , sculptor and poet Hans Arp
the politician, historian , Balkan researcher , journalist and writer Hermann Wendel
the writer Bernd Isemann
the politician and journalist Salomon Grumbach (1884–1952)
the journalist René Prévot (1880–1955)

The ingenious attitudes of the members of the striker circle, hardly any of whom were over 18 years old, on the one hand suggest a belated Nietzsche reception and naturalism made up , but at the same time point to Expressionism .

literature

Otto Flake : It is evening. An Autobiography , pp. 81-102. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1980. ISBN 3-596-22272-9
Rolf Parr : The Youngest Alsace / Der Stürmerkreis [Strasbourg, Munich] , pp. 207–218 in: Wulf Wülfing / Karin Bruns / Rolf Parr: Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and leagues 1825-1933 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1997. ISBN 978-3476013361
Rolf Parr : Interdiscursive As-Sociation: Studies on literary-cultural groupings between Vormärz and Weimar Republic , pp. 19–21 . Niemeyer, Tübingen 2000. ISBN 978-3484350755 (last checked on March 12, 2013)
Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature, 1900-1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War; P. 118 . CHBeck, Munich 2004. ISBN 978-3406521782 (last checked on March 12, 2013)

Individual evidence

^ Peter Sprengel: History of German-language literature, 1900-1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War ; P. 118. CH Beck, Munich 2004; Bernhard von Hülsen: Change of scene in Alsace. Theater and society in Strasbourg between Germany and France, 1890-1944 , p. 66. (German-French cultural library, vol. 22). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004. ISBN 978-3936522747

[1] Peter Sprengel: History of German-language literature, 1900-1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War ; P. 118. CH Beck, Munich 2004; Bernhard von Hülsen: Change of scene in Alsace. Theater and society in Strasbourg between Germany and France, 1890-1944 , p. 66. (German-French cultural library, vol. 22). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2004. ISBN 978-3936522747