Neo-romanticism

Neo- Romanticism or Neo- Romanticism ( "literary Art Nouveau" ) is the name given to a literary movement around 1890–1915 that saw itself as a countermovement to naturalism and modernism and linked to the content of Romanticism .

The neo-romantic poets showed a preference for exotic locations ( Middle Ages , Renaissance Italy ), for the wonderful and mysterious-magical, for the bizarre, for legends , myths and fairy tales ; They created texts of great perfection and refined language, especially in poetry.

The neo-romanticism received inspiration from symbolism and decadence poetry ; There were close points of contact with Impressionism and fin de siècle poetry, as well as with Art Nouveau , which was significantly influenced by Neo-Romanticism.

Important representatives of neo-romanticism were:

• the George Circle
• the Viennese Modernism
• Herbert Eulenberg
• Ernst Hardt
• Gerhart Hauptmann (among others: Hanneles Himmelfahrt , 1893; The Sunken Bell , 1896)
• Hermann Hesse ( The Steppenwolf )
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Ricarda Yikes
• Heinrich Mann (see e.g. "The Wonderful"; However, not all of Mann's work)
• Agnes Miegel
• Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Albrecht Schaeffer
• Eduard Stucken
• Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
• Prince Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath
• Hans Fritz von Zwehl

See also

• Symbolism (literature) (synonym)

Web links

• Entry on neo-romanticism in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )