Jung-Wien (literature)

Jung-Wien refers to a group of Viennese authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose spokesman Hermann Bahr appeared and who significantly promoted the development away from naturalism towards aestheticism - and thus towards literary modernity. The most important organ of the group was Bahr's weekly Die Zeit .

The group was formed in 1891, whereby the establishment by Bahr represents a mystification . The group's meeting point was Café Griensteidl , where young authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Arthur Schnitzler , Peter Altenberg and Felix Salten met. Bahr acted both as a mentor and as a mediator of foreign literature. He used his contacts to publishers and magazines to promote young, unknown authors.

Even if younger, more modern authors - most clearly Karl Kraus - soon distanced themselves from the group, it stimulated the emergence of literary modernism in Austria and beyond in the German-speaking area. Important authors of the early 20th century such as Robert Musil , Joseph Roth and Ödön von Horváth were significantly influenced by Jung-Wien.

Members or environment of the group

• Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), writer
• Leopold von Andrian (1875–1951), writer and diplomat
• Raoul Auernheimer (1876–1948), lawyer, journalist and writer
• Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), writer, playwright and theater and literary critic
• Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), novelist, playwright and poet
• Jakob Julius David (1859–1906), journalist and writer
• Felix Dörmann (1870–1928), writer, librettist and film producer
• Friedrich M. Fels (1864 – after 1899), journalist
• Paul Goldmann (1865–1935), journalist, publicist, travel writer, theater critic, translator and author of theater essays and short plays
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer, dramatist, poet, librettist and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival
• Karl Kraus (1874–1936), writer
• Anton Lindner (1874–1928), poet, storyteller, art, literary and theater critic, translator and newspaper editor
• Max Messer (1875–1930), lawyer, newspaper editor (Die Zeit) and writer
• Felix Salten (1869–1945), writer
• Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), doctor, storyteller and playwright
• Richard Specht (1870–1932), poet, playwright, writer, music critic and musicologist
• Jakob Wassermann (1873–1934), writer
• Paul Wertheimer (1874–1937), writer and lawyer
• Paul Zahler (1879–1929), writer, journalist and diplomat
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer

literature

• Daniela Finzi (Ed.): Parallel Actions: Freud and the literati of the young Vienna. Vienna: Sigmund Freud Museum, 2018. ISBN 978-3-9503774-5-3
• Gotthart Wunberg (Ed.): The young Vienna: Austrian literary and art criticism 1887–1902. I-II. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1976. ISBN 3-484-10220-9