„Chagallisch“: Zur Ästhetik der Luft in lyrischen Texten

Abstract

The article is an attempt to analyse the qualities of airspace captured in the lyrical texts inspired by Chagall’s works and to outline their atmospheres and moods. The subject of the interpretation are the poems by Johannes Bobrowski, Rose Ausländer, Ulrich Grasnick, Joanna Kulmowa and Tadeusz Kubiak, which refer directly to Chagall’s works or evoke his poetic worlds, exposing mainly the scene of love flight. Reflections are not only made on the material airspace in which the lovers float, but also on the affective atmosphere that envelops them, in which the transmission of affects is possible and which in turn unfolds a transpersonal intensity. Methodologically, the analysis moves in the field of ‘atmospheric’ literary and cultural studies, which are non-representational approaches working to accentuate and deepen problems that the atmosphere as a diffuse and ephemeral background poses, as well as to examine how it is composed and organised and what meaning that has.

Keywords

• aesthetics
• lyric
• air
• atmosphere