Critical armed conflicts
Critical Armed Forces was a German literary magazine that appeared from 1882 to 1884 in six issues. It was edited by Heinrich Hart and Julius Hart and published by Otto Wigand Verlag in Leipzig.
The Hart brothers came to Berlin from Münster in 1881 and quickly made contacts in the progressive literary circles from which the new literary current of naturalism arose in the 1880s . The critical armed conflicts made a decisive contribution to this development. Julius and Heinrich Hart wrote all the articles in the magazine themselves; they criticized the (from their point of view) epigonal, mendacious and flattened German literature of the time. They called for more realism: literature should deal with reality rather than simply being entertaining.
In what for? Against what? For what? , an essay from the first edition jointly written by the Hart brothers, they call for a revolution in German literature and a departure from mediocrity. You want to build on the naturalness and depth of feeling of Sturm und Drang .
Contents of the individual issues
- Issue 1 (1882)
- P. 3–8: What for, what against, what for?
- P. 9–58: The playwright Heinrich Kruse
- Issue 2 (1882)
- P. 3–8: Open letter to Prince Bismarck
- P. 9–43: Paul Lindau as a critic
- Pp. 44–55: For and against Zola
- Issue 3 (1882)
- P. 3–51: Hugo Bürger
- P. 52–68: A poet à la mode
- Issue 4 (1882)
- P. 3–69: The "German Theater" of Mr. L'Arronge
- Issue 5 (1883)
- P. 3–64: Graf Schack as a poet
- Issue 6 (1884)
- P. 3–74: Friedrich Spielhagen and the German novel of the present
source
- Friedel Wallesch: Critical arguing . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. p. 156.