The young Franconia

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The young Franconia was a short-lived artistic association founded in November 1919 or a literary revolutionary group in Franconia , whose goal was the "promotion and dissemination of soul-born and ethical new art". Members were mainly writers, but visual artists were also represented. The members included: Joseph Achmann, Alexander Abusch , Julius Maria Becker , Oskar Birckenbach , Georg Britting , Rudolf Hartig, Karl Krayl, A. Lubelsky, Willy Reindl, Maria Reinhold, Alfred Seidl, Hermann Sendelbach , Anton Schnack , Friedrich Schnack , Ernst Toller and Maria Luise Weissmann . The group was based in Nuremberg .

The main motive for founding the association was a literary-artistic controversy between the established literary union and the conservative Franconian Courier with its feature editor Oskar Franz Schardt on the one hand and the more avant-garde young Franconian writers with Britting's expressionist magazine Die Sichel as an organ on the other Page. The literary dispute, which had sparked off by the evaluation of Kokoschka , the novels of Alfred Neumann and the program of the Georg Müller Verlag (Schardt judged all three disparagingly), culminated in a dispute in court. Britting and Schardt withdrew allegations and any insults in December 1920 and Britting had to pay the court costs.

Apart from the fact that the literary controversy and the founding of a group brought together a number of people who were to have a say in the literary life of the Weimar period from very different positions, the group is not known to have been active beyond the end of 1920. From 1932 on, Schardt can no longer be identified in the editorial office of the Fränkischer Kurier and Britting soon afterwards became an employee there.

literature

  • Georg Britting: Complete Works. Vol. 1. Early Works. Edited by Walter Schmitz, Munich 1987, p. 181 u. Note
  • Georg Britting: The bottom line is the employee Schardt. In: Die Sichel 2 (1920), p. 19.
  • Oskar Franz Schardt: The young Franconia. In: Fränkischer Kurier , December 12, 1919.