Germany's Romantic literary revival built on Blade Runner and seven deadly sins

A new genre of German literature champions emotion and experience, but some worry ‘ultra-romanticism’ is fuelling an anti-liberal movement ...
AlphaGalileo

Third presentation of the Klaus Heyne Prize for Research into German Romanticism // The 2026 recipients are the philosopher Dr Kirill Chepurin and the art historian Dr ...

Bliss” and “Ossian”: these are the two keywords outlining the thematic areas explored by the two scholars who have won the ...
EurekAlert!

Postcolonial reflections on Romantic understandings of nature

Informed by approaches drawn from a history of ideas, cultural studies and postcolonial theory, art historian Dr. Miguel A. Gaete examined the paintings and drawings of six less-known German artists, ...
The Atlantic

Literary Aspects of the Romantic School

LUDWIG TIECK, the literary chieftain of the German Romantic School, was, with due allowance for the natural differences between a romanticist and a classicist, a kind of Goethe in miniature. Enjoy a ...
The Economist

The “Jena Set” was the heart of German Romanticism

At a four-day house party in a corner of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar in 1799, the guests indulged in “vertiginous bouncing between poetry, art, science, philosophy and religion”, as Andrea Wulf puts it ...