Concept
Sturm und Drang
Overview
Sturm und Drang (, German: [ˈʃtʊʁm ʔʊnt ˈdʁaŋ]; usually translated as "storm and stress") was a proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements. The period is named after Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's play of the same name, which was first performed by Abel Seyler's famed theatrical company in 1777. Seyler's son-in-law Johann Anton Leisewitz wrote the early and quintessential Sturm und Drang play, Julius of Taranto, with its theme of the conflict between two brothers and the woman loved by both.
Significant figures were Johann Anton Leisewitz, Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, H. L. Wagner, Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, and Johann Georg Hamann. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller were notable proponents of the movement early in their lives, although they ended their period of association with it by initiating what would become Weimar Classicism.
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Theresa became pregnant for the third time. Too sincere with myself, too haughty in my mind to contradict my principles by my actions, I began to examine the destination of my children, and my connections with the mother, according to the laws of nature, justice, and reason, and those of that religion, pure, holy, and eternal, like its author, which men have polluted while they pretended to purify it, and which by…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
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When the ideas of men began to expand and multiply, and closer communication took place among them, they strove to invent more numerous signs and a more copious language. They multiplied the inflections of the voice, and added gestures, which are in their own nature more expressive, and depend less for their meaning on a prior determination. Visible and movable objects were therefore expressed by gestures, and…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract & discourses
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And may the German public remember always that it is called not only to witness this well-known piece, so excellently staged, but also to hear it and to understand it! May there never come a time when the divine spirit of toleration and forbearance contained in it will cease to be sacred to the nation. The presence of the distinguished Iffland in 1796 gave occasion for the shortening of _Egmont_ to the form in which…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's literary essays
States what Sturm und Drang is.
Philosophers who discussed Sturm und Drang
- Stilpo
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Friedrich Schiller
- Martin Knutzen
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Frankfurt
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Neoclassicism
- Seven Years' War
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- American Revolution
- Drama
- Aesthetics
- Opera
- Novel
- Johann Georg Hamann
- Bertolt Brecht
- Romeo and Juliet
- Romanticism
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Age of Enlightenment
- Aristotle
- Universalism
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Strasbourg
- Baroque
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.