Serakreis Jena
The Serakreis from Jena was a group within the early youth movement and the life reform movement around the publisher Eugen Diederichs .
history
The Serakreis was a group of free students around the publisher Eugen Diederichs. From Diedrich's saying "Sera, Sera, Juvenes quam virgines" one derived the term "Seraleute" and ultimately the Serakreis. Based on the ideas of the early youth movement and the wandering bird , folk dances and songs were cultivated, theater was played, read and hiked together. A special highlight for the district were the annual solstice bonfires, which have been celebrated together with guests since 1908 on the Hohen Lehde near Jena. As in other societies of the time, attention was paid to natural clothing and a healthy diet, the celebration culture was revived and art was the focus of one's own work. Tolerance towards those who think differently was taught early on. The federal government was a founding member of the Free German Youth and in October 1913 co-hosted the First Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner . Among other things, the circle performed the Goethe play Iphigenie there. The circle had special connections to the Academic Association Jena and the Free School Community of Wickersdorf .
Serastone
After several members did not return from the First World War , the circle slowly disintegrated. A memorial stone was placed by the survivors in 1920 in the Tautenburger Forest near Jena. The so-called Serastein, near which the district's annual solstice celebrations took place, is now a popular hiking destination.
Known members
- Karl Brügmann , Dortmund wandering bird, died in 1914
- Rudolf Carnap , philosopher
- Eugen Diederichs , publisher
- Wilhelm Flitner , educator
- Julius Frankenberger , educator (among others in Wickersdorf)
- Hans Freyer , sociologist, historian and philosopher
- Kurt Held , writer
- Robert Jentzsch , mathematician and poet, died in 1918
- Franz Roh , art critic and photographer
literature
- Meike Sophia Baader: Education as Redemption: Transformations of the Religious in Reform Education. Juventa, Weinheim / Munich 2005. ISBN 3-7799-1263-5
- Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandering Bird and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8709-1
- Andreas Flitner: Reform of education. Impulses from the 20th century . Beltz Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-407-22096-0 .
- Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Free German Youth Day in Documents, Interpretations and Pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7
- Meike G. Werner: Youth movement as a reform of the student-academic youth culture. Self-education - self-education - the new sociability: The Jenenser free student body and the Serakreis . In: Ulrich Herrmann (editor): "The new times are moving with us" - the wandering bird in the German youth movement . Juventa, Weinheim 2006, pp. 171–203. ISBN 3779911337 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Irmgard Heidler: The publisher Eugen Diederichs and his world (1896-1930) . Harrassowitz , 1998, ISBN 3-447-04029-7 , here p. 110 ( limited preview in Google book search [accessed on September 10, 2017]).
- ^ Meike G. Werner: Modernism in the Province: Cultural Experiments in the Fin de Siècle Jena . Wallstein , 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-594-4 , here p. 236 . Serastein also reminds of Jentzsch: Once a math student in Jena . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung . September 6, 2017, Jena regional section, p. 14 .