A report on Sturm und Drang
Proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.
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Romanticism
6 linksArtistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.
Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors since many of the early Romantics were cultural revolutionaries and sympathetic to the revolution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6 linksGerman poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic.
German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic.
Goethe was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement.
Friedrich Schiller
7 linksGerman playwright, poet, and philosopher.
German playwright, poet, and philosopher.
The Robbers (Die Räuber): The language of The Robbers is highly emotional, and the depiction of physical violence in the play marks it as a quintessential work of Germany's Romantic Sturm und Drang movement. The Robbers is considered by critics like Peter Brooks to be the first European melodrama. The play pits two brothers against each other in alternating scenes, as one quests for money and power, while the other attempts to create revolutionary anarchy in the Bohemian Forest. The play strongly criticises the hypocrisies of class and religion, and the economic inequities of German society; it also conducts a complicated inquiry into the nature of evil. Schiller was inspired by the play Julius of Taranto by Johann Anton Leisewitz.
Johann Gottfried Herder
5 linksGerman philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.
German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic.
He is associated with the Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.
Abel Seyler
4 linksSwiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one of the great theatre principals of 18th century Europe.
Swiss-born theatre director and former merchant banker, who was regarded as one of the great theatre principals of 18th century Europe.
He was "the leading patron of German theatre" in his lifetime, and is credited with introducing Shakespeare to a German language audience, and with promoting the concept of a national theatre in the tradition of Ludvig Holberg, the Sturm und Drang playwrights, and German opera.
Johann Anton Leisewitz
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Johann Anton Leisewitz (born 9 May 1752 in Hanover, died 10 September 1806 in Braunschweig) was a German lawyer and dramatic poet, and a central figure of the Sturm und Drang era.
Age of Enlightenment
5 linksIntellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects.
Intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries with global influences and effects.
Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism.
Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger
3 linksGerman dramatist and novelist.
German dramatist and novelist.
His play Sturm und Drang (1776) gave its name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch.
Weimar Classicism
4 linksGerman literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment.
German literary and cultural movement, whose practitioners established a new humanism from the synthesis of ideas from Romanticism, Classicism, and the Age of Enlightenment.
Baumgarten's emphasis on the need for such "sensuous" knowledge was a major abetment to the "pre-Romanticism" known as Sturm und Drang (1765), of which Goethe and Schiller were notable participants for a time.
Sturm und Drang (play)
3 linksSturm und Drang is a play in five acts by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, which gave its name to the artistic period known as Sturm und Drang.