TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nubert, Roxana
A1  - Dascălu-Romițan, Ana-Maria
T1  - Der Schriftsteller Franz Xaver Kappus als Vertreter der literarischen Moderne im Banat
T2  - Germanistische Beiträge
N2  - In comparison to the Transsylvanian-Saxon or to the German-speaking Bukowina literature the modernists exerted a more reduced influence on the literature of the Banat Swabians. Franz Xaver Kappus (1883-1966) influenced the literary modernists in the Western part of Romania especially through his expressionistic texts. He became famous thanks to his correspondence with Rainer Maria Rilke. The masterpiece Die lebenden Vierzehn (The Fourteeen Survivors) (1918) is swayed by a collective catastrophe and represents a certain kind of utopia, which anticipates the end of the world. A dread causing image with a peculiar unreality shapes the event. Kappus’ fantasy does not shrink back from images of dread and horror. As in the expressionistic literature any destruction of the harmonious beautiful principle comes about in dread. The grotesque features belong to the expressionistic character of the book. It is interesting that the dreadful and the grotesque show their demonic side and with it they destroy the familiar reality. Such a development demonstrates that Kappus follows a tradition to which also E. T. A. Hoffmann, Frank Wedekind, Franz Kafka or Georg Heym belong. There are also streaks of naturalism in the novel.
KW  - Franz Xaver Kappus
KW  - expressionistic literature
KW  - naturalism
KW  - primitiveness
KW  - utopia
KW  - end of the world
KW  - grotesque
KW  - dread
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/70794
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-707942
UR  - http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/48/NubertDascaluRomitan.pdf
SN  - 2247-4633
SN  - 1454-5144
VL  - 48
SP  - 84
EP  - 113
PB  - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt
CY  - Sibiu / Hermannstadt
ER  -