George-Kreis
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The George-Kreis or George Circle were an influential German literary group centred around Stefan George
. Formed in the late 19th Century, the group featured many highly-regarded German writers and academics. The group disbanded when George died in December 1933.
Stefan George
Stefan Anton George was a German poet, editor, and translator.-Biography:George was born in Bingen in Germany in 1868. He spent time in Paris, where he was among the writers and artists who attended the Tuesday soireés held by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. He began to publish poetry in the 1890s,...
. Formed in the late 19th Century, the group featured many highly-regarded German writers and academics. The group disbanded when George died in December 1933.
Members
- Robert BoehringerRobert BoehringerRobert Boehringer was a German industrialist and poet.Boehringer was the son of a factory owner. He spent his childhood, youth, and his student years in Basel, where he also had his Ph.D. approved at the local university. Until 1920 he was the head of the family firm C.H. Boehringer in Ingelheim...
- Paul Gerardy
- Percy Gothein
- Friedrich GundolfFriedrich GundolfFriedrich Gundolf, born Friedrich Leopold Gundelfinger was a German-Jewish literary scholar and poet and one of the most famous academics of the Weimar Republic.- Education :...
- Henry von Heiseler
- Ernst KantorowiczErnst KantorowiczErnst Hartwig Kantorowicz was a German-Jewish historian of medieval political and intellectual history, known for his 1927 book Kaiser Friedrich der Zweite on Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, and in particular The King's Two Bodies .Kantorowicz was born in Posen to a wealthy, assimilated...
- Ludwig KlagesLudwig KlagesLudwig Klages was a German philosopher, psychologist and a theoretician in the field of handwriting analysis.-Life:...
- Oskar KohnstammOskar KohnstammDr. Oskar Felix Kohnstamm was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Initially trained in internal medicine in Giessen and Strassbourg he received his doctors degree in Berlin in 1894. Kohnstamm then began as a general practitioner in Königstein im Taunus , a small town in Hesse...
- Max Kommerell
- Edgar Salin
- Alfred SchulerAlfred SchulerAlfred Schuler was a religious founder, a gnostic, a mystic and a visionary. Franz Wegener has called Schuler the last of the German Cathars. Schuler saw himself as a reborn Roman of the late imperial era...
- The von Stauffenberg brothers, Claus, AlexanderAlexander Schenk Graf von StauffenbergAlexander Franz Clemens Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat and historian.Alexander was the younger twin of Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg...
, and BertholdBerthold Schenk Graf von StauffenbergBerthold Alfred Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg was a German aristocrat, lawyer and conspirator in the 20 July plot of 1944, along with his brother, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, an army colonel... - Ludwig Thormaehlen
- Karl Gustav Vollmoeller
- Karl WolfskehlKarl WolfskehlKarl Wolfskehl was a German Jewish author who wrote poetry, prose and drama in German. He also translated from French, English, Italian, Hebrew, Latin and Middle High German into German....
- Friedrich WoltersFriedrich WoltersFriedrich Wolters was a German historian, poet and translator. He was one of the central figures of the George-Kreis, an influential literary group. Wolters met Stefan George in 1904 and by the 1920s was one of his strongest supporters in the George-Kreis....