Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne (Sep 2011)

Julius Mosen als Dramaturg der beginnenden literarischen Moderne

  • Rüdiger Bernhardt

Journal volume & issue
no. 1
pp. 145 – 160

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Julius Mosen as a dramatist of early modernism Julius Mosen (1803-1867), author of the famous song entitled Andreas-Hofer-Lied (Zu Mantua in Bander...), whose work, despite the romantic elements present in his poetry, must be attributed to the era of Young Germany, has made a signifieant and yet ignored contribution to literary modernism. It concerned the changes in the structure of the genre: social and historical drama. In the first third of the 19th century a new form of drama deyeloped, the station drama. The peak of its development was found in Georg Büchner and the social drama Die Weber by Gerhart Hauptmann.

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