World reconciliation

World reconciliation is an expression that the poet and translator Friedrich Rückert coined in connection with his understanding of “world poetry”. According to him, it is a question of a reconciliation of the peoples that comes about through the work of the poets across cultural boundaries.

World poetry

According to Johann Wolfgang Goethe , who was influenced by Herder in this regard , world poetry is a "world and national gift" ( Poetry and Truth , Part 2, Book 10). Goethe received this impression from his encounter with Slavic poetry. Rückert, for his part, translated Asian poetry into German, often in free adaptations. His poem The Spirits of Songs , which he added to the Schi-King Collection , Chinese Song Book (1833), ends with the dictum “World poetry is world reconciliation”.

The term has often been quoted in connection with a culturally oriented international understanding .

Peter of Matt

The German scholar Peter von Matt in 2001 developed his own theory of world reconciliation, which he in ancient Greek comedy and in the German comedy saw realized, possibly stimulated by a study of Hugo von Hofmannsthal by William Henry Rey. World reconciliation is practiced through a symbolic ceremony, through which a world division is taken back. This also shows the peculiarity of the comedy as a "play with pleasure".

literature

Arne Klawitter: Aesthetic Resonance: Signs and Font Aesthetics from East Asia in German-Language Literature and Intellectual History. V&R unipress, Göttingen 2015, pp. 251–256, ISBN 978-3847103592 .

Web links

Muriel Mirak-Weißbach: World Poetry. Translation as international understanding , schiller-institut.de, accessed on 16 October 2016th

Individual evidence

↑ William Henry Rey: World division and world reconciliation in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Greek dramas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962.
↑ Peter von Matt: The last laugh. To the final scene in the comedy . In: Ralf Simon (Ed.): Theory of Comedy - Poetics of Comedy (= AISTHESIS Study Book . Volume 2). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2001, p 140. ( "" All comedy runs on rituals the world reconciliation addition, [...]. "" [...] who speaks of the age-old business of comedy comes to the discussion of this term is not around. )

[1] William Henry Rey: World division and world reconciliation in Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Greek dramas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962.

[2] Peter von Matt: The last laugh. To the final scene in the comedy . In: Ralf Simon (Ed.): Theory of Comedy - Poetics of Comedy (= AISTHESIS Study Book . Volume 2). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2001, p 140. ( "" All comedy runs on rituals the world reconciliation addition, [...]. "" [...] who speaks of the age-old business of comedy comes to the discussion of this term is not around. )