Lecture with musical examples by Prof. Dr. Ute Büchter-Römer:
"When I think of Germany at night ..." (Heinrich Heine)
"We dreamed of nothing but enlightenment" formulated Moses Mendelssohn and Kant's call to use one's own intellect led to upheavals in Europe. The French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic War were the result. The poets and musicians of the Romantic period saw their hopes for a democratic order in Europe betrayed by the Congress of Vienna. Resigned, they withdrew into their "inwardness". But beneath the surface there was a ferment. This is shown by various poems, reflections and compositions. Bettine von Arnim, for example, came under fire for her "Armenbuch", Georg Büchner provoked and agitated with the pamphlet "Der Hessische Landbote" and was forced to emigrate, the speech at the Hambach Festival led to violent reactions from the Prussian State Chancellery, Heinrich Heine was extremely clear in his assessment of his homeland, and the poems of Hoffmann von Fallersleben concealed the uprising in ironic language. Women of the time, such as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Rebecka Dirichlet, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy, sought a way out of the prescribed female corset.
"When I think of Germany at night ..." (Heinrich Heine)
"We dreamed of nothing but enlightenment" formulated Moses Mendelssohn and Kant's call to use one's own intellect led to upheavals in Europe. The French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic War were the result. The poets and musicians of the Romantic period saw their hopes for a democratic order in Europe betrayed by the Congress of Vienna. Resigned, they withdrew into their "inwardness". But beneath the surface there was a ferment. This is shown by various poems, reflections and compositions. Bettine von Arnim, for example, came under fire for her "Armenbuch", Georg Büchner provoked and agitated with the pamphlet "Der Hessische Landbote" and was forced to emigrate, the speech at the Hambach Festival led to violent reactions from the Prussian State Chancellery, Heinrich Heine was extremely clear in his assessment of his homeland, and the poems of Hoffmann von Fallersleben concealed the uprising in ironic language. Women of the time, such as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Rebecka Dirichlet, née Mendelssohn Bartholdy, sought a way out of the prescribed female corset.