"There must be order in the madhouse!"
Results of the 1st International Paul Adler Conference
Even during his lifetime, the Hellerau poet and bohemian Paul Adler (1878-1946) was considered a 'prophet' of modernism and the epitome of a new, world-changing poetry. Often compared to Kafka in contemporary reception, the Prague-born poet was committed to a concept of poetry that sought to combine aesthetic innovation and social commitment. The author, who has almost been forgotten today, thus became one of the most important representatives of the expressionist art revolt, whose literature already seems to anticipate the aesthetic methods of postmodernism.
This recently published volume brings together the contributions to the 1st International Paul Adler Conference, which approached the author and his work from an interdisciplinary perspective for the first time. It brings together contributions from the fields of German studies, Jewish studies, philosophy, musicology and historiography, which - based on a review of the limited research on Adler to date - realign the image of Adler's authorship and his oeuvre.
A separate section is dedicated to intertextual references to Adler and his work in contemporary literature: in Angelika Meier's novel "England" (2010) and Durs Grünbein' s "Die Jahre im Zoo" (2015).
The final panel, the results of which are documented at the end of the volume, explored the field conditions of fame and being forgotten in the context of modernity.
The volume contains contributions by Ludo Abicht, Frank Almai, Moritz Baßler, Michael Heinemann, Daniel Hoffmann, Fabian Lutz, Stefan Nienhaus, Tim Preuß, Walter Schmitz, Ulrike Schneider, Justus Spott, Annette Teufel, Justus H. Ulbricht, Siegbert Wolf and Simone Zupfer.
Publisher's announcement with reading sample
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