Rhenish group
The Rheinische Gruppe was an artist community in Cologne-Nippes .
history
The members of the group, mostly schoolchildren and students, met regularly in Goswin Peter Gath's bookstore in the 1930s . The magazine Aufriß was to serve as the forum for the group, but only one copy was published.
Well-known members of the group were:
- Max Bense (1910–1990), philosopher, writer, publicist
- Erwin Bücken (1910–2005), poet doctor
- Albrecht Fabri (1911–1998), writer and essayist, from 1930
- Herbert Franke (1914–2011), sinologist
- Goswin Peter Gath (1898–1959), writer and researcher in the field of mythology and legends and research into Cologne's vocabulary
- Hans-Georg Laubenthal (1911–1971), actor and singer
- Rolf Mayr, translator of the La Fontaine legends
- Peter Schäfer († 1945, missing), aspiring essayist
- Werner Speiser (1908–1965), Japanologist and director of the East Asian Museum in Cologne and
- Stefan Andres (1906–1970), writer; advisory
The group organized literary and musical events. A focus of the meetings was the debate and discussion on literature and the like. a., by Aristotle, Zarathustra, Kant, Schopenhauer, Benn, Hölderlin, Mörike, Nietzsche. Incidentally, the importance of the "Rhenish Group" lay essentially in the mutual spiritual stimulation. Albrecht Fabri once summed it up as follows: "In our way we were a small academy ."
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Erwin Bücken: Early encounter with Max Bense . In: Semiosis. International journal for semiotics and aesthetics . No. 4, 1984 and No. 1/2, 1985. Volume 36/37/38 , pp. 45-55 ( zkm.de [PDF]).
- ↑ a b c Jürgen Egyptien (Ed.): Albrecht Fabri - early writings. Peter Lang Edition, 2016, ISBN 978-3-653-95307-7 , pp. 8, 9.
- ^ Jürgen Egyptien: Fabri, Albrecht; in: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Dep - Fre. Volume 3 of Killy Literature Lexicon. Walter de Gruyter. 2008, ISBN 3-1102-0935-7 , p. 349.