Neopathetic cabaret

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The Neopathetic Cabaret was a series of events with readings and lectures by young poets in Wilhelmine Berlin on the eve of the First World War . The events took place in the new club . The Neo Pathos was Erwin Loewenson's program font .

history

The Neo Pathos comes from the Neopathetic Cabaret, which in turn was originally an event of the New Club, which Kurt Hiller founded in 1909 near Hackescher Markt in Berlin. The New Club marked the beginning of Expressionism , in which for the first time famous poets such as Georg Heym , Ernst Blass and Jakob van Hoddis spoke up.

But the Neopathetic Cabaret didn't last long. When lecture evenings were held under the name Neopathetisches Cabaret in 1910, violent disputes broke out, which began with an Antihiller pamphlet Jakob van Hoddis and which ultimately led to the break after irreconcilable fighting. So the two sides reorganized. Hiller, who was joined by Ernst Blass, among others, founded the cabaret GNU as a kind of competition to the Neopathetic Cabaret. The rest, namely van Hoddis, Heym, Loewenson and Simon Guttmann remained neopathetics until the Neopathetic Cabaret went under shortly after Georg Heym's death in 1912.

The idea was maintained, as has been handed down in letters, but there were no more events. It is difficult to determine what Neo Pathos should be, what constituted it. In any case, "the blood of the veins should flow into the spirit": value life highly , says Loewenson. One had read his Nietzsche and his Freud . Man was divided. There was no paste to help. The aesthetics alone. Problems and shape called Thomas Mann , this sense of inner emotion. Neo pathos may have gotten up out of a feeling that art has increased itself. To the point of pathos . Pathos - a higher unity of voluntas and intellect is what Loewenson calls it.

literature

  • Karin Bruns : The new club / Neopathetisches Cabaret (Berlin). In: Wulf Wülfing et al. (Hrsg.): Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and associations. 1825-1933. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 1998, ISBN 3-476-01336-7 , pp. 350–358 ( Repertories on the history of German literature 18).
  • Rudolf Majut: Memories of Georg Heym, Erwin Loewenson and the Neopathetic Cabaret. In: German Life and Letters. Vol. 24, Issue 2, ISSN  0016-8777 , pp. 160-174.