Sunday wreath (Stuttgart)

Invitation to the Sunday wreath, Wilhelm Raabe's ticket for Ferdinand Scholl, 1867.

The Sunday wreath was an association of literary men in Stuttgart who met every 14 days in winter between 1867 and 1894 for a coffee party. The circle included the writers Wilhelm Raabe , Ferdinand Freiligrath and Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer as well as the painter Heinrich von Rustige .

society

The Sunday wreath was an informal association of a narrow circle of men interested in literature in Stuttgart, mainly of writers, artists and dignitaries. One talked about issues of the day and above all about literary events, occasionally also individual works of participants were discussed. From 1867 to 1894, people met every 14 days in the winter of one of the participants' apartments, sometimes in a restaurant.

The host sent the participants a brief invitation, sometimes a drawing or a caricature. The wreaths took place on Sundays from 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. “with modest entertainment with coffee and then beer and pretzels with strong tobacco smoke development”. Some of the participants in the Sunday wreath were also members of the artists' society "Das radiant Bergwerk" or took part in the informal meetings of the " Kaffee Reinsburg ".

Invitation to the Sunday wreath, caricature Wilhelm Raabe for Albert Dulk, 1867.

Invitation to the Sunday wreath, caricature by Ferdinand Scholl for Wilhelm Raabe, year unknown.

Members

The well-known participants in the wreath included the writers Albert Dulk, Johann Georg Fischer, Ferdinand Freiligrath, Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, Otto Müller, Otfried Mylius and Wilhelm Raabe as well as the actor and poet Feodor Löwe and the painter Heinrich Rustige.

Occasionally, guests from outside also took part in the meetings, including the writers Berthold Auerbach and Friedrich Bodenstedt, the poet doctor Theobald Kerner, the philosopher Friedrich Theodor Vischer and the editors of the democratic magazine “Der Beobachter” Ludwig Pfau and Hermann Kurz.

literature

• Karl Fricker: Wilhelm Raabe's years in Stuttgart as reflected in his poetry. Stuttgart 1939, pages 26-27.
• Kurt Hoffmeister: Wilhelm Raabe under vines: Stuttgart 1862–1870; ... and I feel indescribably at home here ... Norderstedt 2005, pages 29–30, 50–51.
• Rolf Parr: Sunday wreaths (Stuttgart). In: Wulf Wülfing; Karin Bruns; Rolf Parr: Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and leagues 1825–1933. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1998, pages 221-223.

Footnotes

1. ↑ #Parr 1998.2 , page 419, #Fricker 1939 , #Hoffmeister 2005 .
2. ↑ #Parr 1998.2 , page 421, #Fricker 1939 , #Hoffmeister 2005 .

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