Ernst Stadler — a remark

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“To keep fixing the French spirit to a few catchwords such as rationalism, clarity, logic and measure is to hound a principle to death through lazy generalisation merely because it suited certain periods and individuals.”

Original: Den französischen Geist immer wieder auf ein paar Schlagworte wie Rationalismus, Klarheit, Logik, Maass festlegen wollen, heisst ein Prinzip, weil es auf gewisse Epochen und Individualitäten passte, durch träge Verallgemeinerung zu Tode hetzen. — Warns against reducing a culture to convenient stereotypes · Essay, Die neue französische Lyrik, 1912 (German)

Ernst Stadler

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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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“But the younger generation, further removed from memories of war and less inclined to uncompromising partisanship, turns the old hardship into a new virtue and seeks to embrace both elements within itself, with the ideal of a future synthesis always before it.”

Original: Aber die junge Generation, der Kriegserinnerung ferner, weniger geneigt zu der Unbedingtheit ausgesprochener Parteinahme, schafft sich aus der alten Not eine neue Tugend und sucht beide Elemente in sich zu fassen, immer das Ideal einer zukünftig zu vollziehenden Synthese vor Augen. — Sets out Stadler's hope that Alsace might reconcile rather than choose between German and French cultu… · Essay, Ein Wunsch, 1911 (German)

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