Ludwig Achim von Arnim: Werke und Briefwechsel / Texte der deutschen Tischgesellschaft

This historical-critical edition of the works of Ludwig Achim von Arnim (1781-1831) is being published in collaboration with the Weimar Classicism Foundation, and will comprise approximately 40 volumes. A complete critical edition of the poetic, discursive, and epistolary works of this great Romantic and early modern man has hitherto been lacking. It is the objective of this edition to present the complete production of a writer who combined realism, fantastic inventiveness, and symbolic meaning in an incomparable manner, and who was involved in the issues of all areas of his age. An additional aim is to illuminate the context of von Arnim's life and times. The edition is being offered on a subscription basis until the publication of the final volume.

This is the first attempt ever made to provide a comprehensive portrayal of the Deutsche Tischgesellschaft founded by Achim von Arnim (17811831) and existing from 1811 to at least 1834. This Berlin society contributed decisively to the 'invention of the German nation'. Prominent representatives of leading circles in society were united in a Christian German, Prussian nationalist and German nationalist ideology. Women and Jews were excluded. The speeches that have come down to us testify to a major cultural program with which Arnim and Clemens von Brentano continued the politicization of aesthetics that they initiated with Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

Autorentext

Stefan Nienhaus, Universita degli Studi di Foggia, Italien.

Zusammenfassung

"Diese makabren Texte und Affären waren nicht unbekannt, sind aber nun mit viel Beiwerk und editorisch und kommentatorisch sorgfältig dokumentiert als Band elf einer auf vierzig Bände angelegten historisch-kritischen Arnim-Ausgabe [erschienen]."
*Hermann Kurzke in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 10.08.2009
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