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