Ernst Stadler — a remark

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“Where this movement will lead, seeming as it does to stand outside all tradition, cannot be foretold today.”

Original: Wohin diese Bewegung führen wird, die sich gleichsam ausserhalb aller Tradition zu stellen scheint, ist heute nicht vorauszusagen. — Acknowledges the uncertainty inherent in genuine artistic innovation · Essay, Die neue französische Lyrik, 1912 (German)

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Ernst Stadler

11 August 1883–30 October 1914

Ernst Stadler was born on 11 August 1883 in Colmar, in Alsace, and was killed on 30 October 1914 near Zandvoorde in Flanders during the First World War. His life lasted little more than thirty-one years, and the body of poetry on which his reputation rests is correspondingly small. Yet his importance in…

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“I am astonished and delighted at once. I can hardly have deserved it: my military qualities are certainly not exceptional. I owe it chiefly to the captain's kindness.”

Original: Ich bin verwundert und beglückt zugleich. Habe es wohl kaum verdient: meine militärischen Qualitäten sind ja nicht exorbitant. Ich danke es wesentlich der Güte des Hauptmanns. — His modest and faintly ironic response to receiving the Iron Cross · War diary, 1 October 1914 (German)

“Moral of the whole affair: our optimistic wishes and hopes are still decidedly premature, if we are ever to see them fulfilled at all. I am thoroughly weary of Germany.”

Original: Moral des Ganzen: unsere optimistischen Wünsche u. Hoffnungen sind noch reichlich verfrüht, wenn wir überhaupt jemals ihre Erfüllung erleben sollten. Ich bin reichlich deutschlandmüde. — A candid expression of disillusionment shortly before the outbreak of the First World War · Letter to René Schickele, July 1914 (German)

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