Saxon school of poets
The Saxon Poet School is a group of GDR writers who, born in the 1930s and 1940s and mostly influenced by the Leipzig literary institute "Johannes R. Becher" and the poet Georg Maurer , had a decisive influence on GDR poetry in the 1960s .
The core of the group was made up of Karl Mickel , Volker Braun , Sarah and Rainer Kirsch , Heinz Czechowski , Adolf Endler , Bernd Jentzsch , Richard Leising and BK Tragelehn . Called also well Kito Lorenc , Wulf Kirsten , Peter Gosse , Manfred Jendryschik , Andreas Reimann , Wolf Biermann , Elke Erb and Kurt Bartsch .
What they had in common was the high level of accuracy required when handling the objects displayed. They soon came into conflict with official literary criticism and some of them only wrote for the drawer.
In the 1970s the group disintegrated, some of the writers emigrated to West Germany, Biermann was expatriated, others stayed in the GDR and were able to publish again.
Quotes
“In a short text by myself on the death of Richard Leising in 1997, I list four characteristics of the Saxon school of poetry: sanguine, world reference, serious craftsmanship and insistence on reason. Peter Gosse put it this way, I just spread it. "
literature
- Gerrit-Jan Berendse: The "Saxon Poet School". Poetry in the GDR in the sixties and seventies . Publishing house Peter Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1990, ISBN 3-631-42176-1 (Bochum writings on German literature; 14).
- Leon Hempel: Standstill and movement. High style in the poetry of East and West Germany. GegenSatz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814493-0-3 .
- Elzbieta Szczebak: "New Wave" and "Saxon Poet School". Group phenomena in Polish and German poetry of the 1960s and 1970s . Verlag die Blaue Eule, Essen 2000, ISBN 3-89206-981-6 .