North Star Alliance
The Nordsternbund , also Polarsternbund, was a literary group in Berlin in the early 19th century, which was initiated by Varnhagen von Ense and Adelbert von Chamisso and which included the romantics Rosa Maria Assing , August Ferdinand Bernhardi , Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , Julius Eduard Hitzig , Heinrich Julius Klaproth , David Ferdinand Koreff , Wilhelm Neumann , Ludwig Robert and Franz Theremin .
The group was formed on the occasion of August Wilhelm Schlegel's literary history lectures “On beautiful literature and art” and met mainly in 1803; later there were also meetings in Nennhausen Castle with the married couple Caroline and Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué .
The name of the group alludes to Franz von Baader's philosophical terminology . The so-called Green Almanach (three volumes, actually: Muses-Almanach for the year ... ), published by Chamisso and Varnhagen, was published as the organ of the group from 1804 to 1806 . Other products from the Nordsternbund include an anonymous collection of polemical writings against Garlieb Merkel ( Paradiesgärtlein for Garlieb Merkel , 1806), the anthology Stories and Games (1807) organized by Neumann and Varnhagen, and the collective novel The Trials and Obstacles of Karl. A recent German story (1807–1809), in which Bernhardi, Fouqué, Neumann, Varnhagen and (with a contribution that was submitted too late) Chamisso were involved. However , this novel did not get beyond the first volume, which contained parodies of well-known authors such as Jean Paul and Johann Heinrich Voss and had Goethe's Wilhelm Meister appear as a character.
The federal symbol τ.τ.π.α. ( τò τоῦ πόλου ἂστρον ) was based on the Pythagorean square Franz von Baaders; it can be found handwritten under the letters of all members, as a seal and in dedications or ownership notes of their books. The use of the rings and the covenant mark go back to Koreff (spring 1804) and were intended to remind the covenant brothers of the cohesion of the group during the upcoming study and war-related separation.
literature
- Ludwig Geiger (Ed.): From Chamisso's early days. Unprinted letters and studies. Paetel Brothers, Berlin 1905.
- Helmuth Rogge (Ed.) The double novel of the Berlin Romanticism. 2 vols., Klinkhardt and Biermann, Leipzig 1926.
- Friedrich Römer: Varnhagen von Ense as a romantic. Diss. Berlin 1934.
- Nikolaus Dorsch: Julius Eduard Hitzig. Literary patriarchy and civil career. A documentary biography between literature, book trade and court from 1780-1815. P. Lang, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 1994, ISBN 978-3-631-46441-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Varnhagen's note, quoted in in: Friedrich Römer: Varnhagen von Ense as a romantic. Diss. Berlin 1934, p. 33 ff.