Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad
Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad there is a poem by Erich Kästner . It appeared for the first time in 1930 in his collection of poems A man gives information , in 1968 also in the text collection ... which is not in your reading books .
content
The poem addresses the desolate life of a worker and ends with his suicide after a long day at work.
construction
The poem has 11 stanzas. The first 10 stanzas have four verses each, the last five.
Literary classification
Kurt Schmidt, instead of a ballad , it is called utility poetry and, like many other works by Kästner , is attributed to the New Objectivity .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Barbara Baumann, Brigitta Oberle: German literature in epochs . 2nd Edition. Hueber, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-19-001399-3 , pp. 212-213.