Utility poetry
Usual poetry does not have a uniform definition, but it can be understood to mean, for example, poems that were written at a specific time, for a specific purpose or for a given occasion.
Utility poetry is often poetry written for the benefit ("for use") of the reader. Often they deal with problems of their time that they want to draw the reader's attention to. The statement is therefore formulated in a clearly understandable manner and is not expressed through ambiguous elements such as allegories , so that the poems are very accessible.
Utility poetry was a typical form of expression in the new objectivity of the 1920s .
The term was coined by Bertolt Brecht in 1927 as a result of a poetry competition ; other important representatives of this form of poetry are Erich Kästner , Kurt Tucholsky and Joachim Ringelnatz .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Drouve: Erich Kästner, moralist with double bottom , Tectum Verlag DE, 1999, p. 113 ff.