Rütli (literary group)

The Rütli , also Das Rütli , Rytly and Rytli , was founded on December 9th, 1852 by members of the tunnel over the Spree : as "a kind of secondary tunnel " ( Fontane ). For more private meetings they wanted to evade the somewhat stiff ceremonial and above all the journalistic abstinence of the tunnel and met once a week at one of the members. A special - compared to the tunnel, additional - attraction was that the wives were also "allowed"; admittedly only after the “work” in the second (not literary-artistic) part and above all because it provided food and drink.

The members made a clear distinction between the “original Rütlions” and the “later ones”. Initially, the founding date was solemnly commemorated every December 9th. But since this date almost always got lost in the celebrations of the Tunnel Foundation Festival on December 3rd, it was rescheduled to February 5th.

Here, too - just like the tunnel meeting - guests were invited: Berthold Auerbach , Friedrich von Bodenstedt , Eduard Devrient u. v. m.

The Rütli existed until around 1897 ; on January 5th, 1897 Fontane wrote to Lazarus: “... that the Rütli fell asleep is a blessing; he was a mourning image for years. "

Members

Original Rütlions Karl Bormann Friedrich Eggers Theodor Fontane Adalbert Noel Paul Heyse Franz Kugler Bernhard von Lepel Adolph von Menzel Wilhelm von Merckel Theodor Storm	Later Leopold Goldammer Hugo von Blomberg Karl Eggers August von Heyden Richard Lucae Moritz Lazarus Wilhelm Luebke Otto Roquette Karl Zöllner

also:

• Titus Ullrich

Joint publications

• Argo. Fiction yearbook for 1854. Ed. Theodor Fontane / Franz Kugler, Dessau 1854.
• Literature sheet of the German art paper. Edited by Friedrich Eggers, 1st year ( belonging to the 5th year of the Deutsches Kunstblatt ), 1854; 2nd year, 1855; 3rd year 1856; 4th year 1857.
• Argo. Album for art and poetry. Edited by Friedrich Eggers / Theodor Hosemann / Franz Kugler, Breslau 1857; that. Ed. v. Friedrich Eggers / Theodor Hosemann / Bernhard von Lepel, ibid. 1858.
• Literature sheet of the Deutsches Kunstblatt. 5th year ( belonging to the 9th year of the Deutsches Kunstblatt ), 1858.
• Argo. Album for art and poetry . Edited by Friedrich Eggers / Theodor Hosemann / Bernhard v. Lepel, Breslau 1859; that. Ed. v. Friedrich Eggers / Theodor Hosemann / Bernhard v. Lepel, ibid. 1860.

literature

• Roland Berbig, Wulf Wülfing: Art. Rütli [II] [Berlin]. In: Wulf Wülfing / Karin Bruns / Rolf Parr (eds.): Handbook of literary associations, groups and leagues 1825–1933. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1998 (Repertories on the History of German Literature 18), pp. 394–406, ISBN 3-476-01336-7 (cf. also: Roland Berbig: Art. Rütli [I] [Berlin] , ibid., P . 392 f.).