At the Berlin Conference of 1890, the German Emperor William II encouraged the school system to abandon its humanistic and cosmopolitan approach to culture in order to spread a strong patriotic spirit among the young generations. In spite of this, the name of Mörike occurs in more than 160 schoolbooks of the Second Reich: Editors of scholastic textbooks pushed to dedicate much space to the work of a poet who refused any sort of political engagement with art for his entire life. This essay aims to shed light on the reasons of this apparent incongruity.
Colombo, G., L'opera di Eduard Mörike nei testi scolastici del Deutsches Kaiserreich, <<HUMANITAS>>, 2022; 2022 / 5-6 (2022): 711-724 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/232094]
L'opera di Eduard Mörike nei testi scolastici del Deutsches Kaiserreich
Colombo, Gloria
2022
Abstract
At the Berlin Conference of 1890, the German Emperor William II encouraged the school system to abandon its humanistic and cosmopolitan approach to culture in order to spread a strong patriotic spirit among the young generations. In spite of this, the name of Mörike occurs in more than 160 schoolbooks of the Second Reich: Editors of scholastic textbooks pushed to dedicate much space to the work of a poet who refused any sort of political engagement with art for his entire life. This essay aims to shed light on the reasons of this apparent incongruity.
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