Komet-Kreis (artist group)

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The Komet-Kreis was formed in 1918, in the last year of the First World War , as an artist group in Dresden consisting of writers and artists of Expressionism around Rudolf Adrian Dietrich (1894–1969).

history

Circle around the white chrysanthemum

The beginnings of the comet circle lay in the circle around the white chrysanthemum initiated by the writer Rudolf Adrian Dietrich and Felix Stiemer in 1916 . The effect of the “spirit” in connection with contemporary art has already been discussed in private circles. Only two evening events on November 9 and 19, 1916 are verifiable. Members of the group were also Götz Kilian, Gerta von Haken , Ella Horn , Liddy Deuerling , Doralisa Greifenhain and Wilhelm Morgner .

Comet circle

Felix Stiemer's interest in the social component of intellectual work and its practical impact led to the establishment of the Expressionist Working Group in Dresden in 1917 . With the founding of the Komet-Kreis, Rudolf Adrian Dietrich pursued cosmic-idealistic, purely spirit-oriented goals. In a self-portrayal of the group it was said: "The comet circle is a community of spirit and knowledge through intuition, not through reflection".

From 1918 Dietrich self- published the magazine Komet as "the only concise, independent and unliterary leaflet in Europe during the war and the revolution". A total of 12 sheets of the magazine appeared. These are the individual numbers: - Sheet 1: October 1918, Prosa u. a poem by [Rudolf Adrian] Dietrich - sheet 3 (sic!): December 1918: poetry by Jan Jacob Haringer - sheet 2 (sic!): January 1919, graphic by Marcel Janco - sheet 4: January 1919, prose by [Johannes ] Baader - sheet 5: February 1919, poetry by Hermann Graedener - sheet 6: March 1919, prose by Friedrich Schwangert - sheet 7: April 1919, poetry by Erich Bockemühl - sheet 8: May 1919, graphic by Wilhelm Morgner - sheet 9: June 1919, prose by Franz Jung - sheet 10: July 1919: graphic by Otto Griebel - sheet 11: August 1919, prose by Hans Franck - sheet 12: September 1919, poetry by Alfred Mombert. After that, no more issues appeared.

The group remained attached to a socially isolated artistry and thus failed to meet its own demands for social effectiveness.

Members

literature

  • Frank Almai: From the circle around the white chrysanthemum to the comet circle. Formation of circles as a creation of meaning: On the role of the “spiritual” in the context of war . In: Expressionism in Dresden: Formation of centers of the literary avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany . Thelem bei web, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-20-0 , p. 119-127 .
  • Christoph Wilhelmi: Comet Circle . In: Groups of artists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland since 1900: a manual . Hauswedell, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-7762-1106-7 , p. 207-208 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Jacoby: Collectivization of the imagination? : Artist groups in the GDR between appropriation and inventiveness . Transcript, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89942-627-4 , p. 73 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Information from the writer and editor Peter Salomon , who has the series in his collection.
  3. ↑ Frank Almai: From the circle around the white chrysanthemum to the comet circle. Formation of circles as a creation of meaning: On the role of the “spiritual” in the context of war . In: Expressionism in Dresden: Formation of centers of the literary avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century in Germany . Thelem bei web, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-20-0 , p. 127 .