Experimental lyric

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Experimental lyric poetry , like experimental literature, is initially a collective term that denotes the break with conveyed content and forms . The term is controversial because, viewed in this way, literary or lyrical works that are considered classic today may have had an experimental character in the context of their time.

Experimental lyric poetry in post-war Germany

As far as poetry is concerned, experimental lyric poetry is nowadays understood to mean those lyrical works that were created in the aftermath of the Second World War and that deliberately broke with the lyrical conventions cultivated especially during the time of National Socialism .

After the Second World War, language skepticism was widespread among poets . The same language and symbols that had been used by the National Socialists for their propaganda no longer seemed usable. The language had "lost its innocence", nothing seemed to be said any more, since it could only have been said in the language of the murderers , the poetry threatened to fall silent. Of course, in this situation too, there were poets who clung to traditional forms, but at the same time both the demand and the need for a radical change in language arose.

Expressions of experimental lyric poetry

This radical change in language was first expressed in experimental lyric poetry , hermetic poetry and Dadaism . The experimental lyric provoked by breaking with syntactic rules or conventional word formation patterns. Traditional word meanings were called into question by novel combinations, the traditional forms of the poem ( meter and rhyme ) were broken through in many ways. Accordingly, it was (and in some cases is still today) that these works are often denied that they are poems at all.

Hermetic lyric poetry evaded precise interpretation through its often subjective or intuitive assignments of meaning, and Dadaism finally dissolved language completely into its individual components and was therefore the most radical denial of any traditional language.

Most important representatives of experimental poetry

The most famous representative is the Austrian Ernst Jandl . Further representatives are u. a. Hans Carl Artmann , Eugen Gomringer , Helmut Heißenbüttel , Kurt Marti , Franz Mon , Gerhard Rühm , Hugo Ball , Kurt Schwitters .