The new club
Before the First World War, the New Club in Berlin was an association of students and young artists . The association became the nucleus of early literary expressionism .
history
The New Club was founded in 1909 by the writer Kurt Hiller , with a historically significant foundation - together with Jakob van Hoddis as one of its founding members. In addition, at the beginning of 1910, through Simon Guttmann , the founder of the Neue Bühne, Georg Heym and - probably through Heinrich Eduard Jacob - Ernst Blass .
Under the responsibility of Hiller, Der Neue Club organized four lecture evenings in July, November and December 1910 under the name Neopathetisches Cabaret . They were invited with cards designed by the painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , while the participation of well-known artists such as Tilla Durieux and Else Lasker-Schüler generated increasing feedback.
After the fifth evening of this kind on January 18, 1911, massive and ugly arguments broke out, in the course of which van Hoddis applied for Hiller to be expelled from the club. Hiller, who was joined by Blass and Arthur Drey and Erwin Loewenson , who worked for various literary magazines under the pseudonym Golo Gangi , then left the club and founded his literary competition cabaret GNU .
Under the direction of Jakob van Hoddis , the Neopathetic Cabaret took place three more times in 1911, with one event being contested by Georg Heym all alone. After his death on January 16, 1912, a memorial evening was held for him on April 3 of this year. The New Club continued to exist until 1914.
literature
- Thomas B. Schumann: History of the “New Club” in Berlin as the most important stimulus for literary expressionism. A documentation. In: Emuna. Horizons for discussing Israel and Judaism. 9th vol., No. 1, Jan./Feb. 1974, ISSN 0013-6913 , pp. 55-70.
- Richard Sheppard (Ed.): The Writings of the New Club 1908–1914. 2 volumes. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1980-1983, ISBN 3-8067-0835-5 .
- Reinhard Hippen (ed.): Climbed nerve culture. Cabaret by neopathetics and dadaists. pendo-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-8584-2205-3 ( cabaret story -n 4).
- Karin Bruns : The new club / Neopathetisches Cabaret (Berlin). In: Wulf Wülfing et al. (Hrsg.): Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and associations. 1825-1933. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-476-01336-7 , pp. 350–358 ( Repertories on the history of German literature 18).