George-Kreis

The George-Kreis was a German literary school founded by the poet Stefan George around the turn of the 20th century. Influenced by the Symbolist movement, George and his followers aimed to revitalize the German literary language and create new aesthetic forms in poetry. They emphasized precision in language, harmony, and a rejection of materialism and naturalism. The school was held together by George's strong personality, and its journal, Blätter für die Kunst, published from 1892 to 1919, was central to its activities. While George's ideas were sometimes misunderstood or misused, he himself opposed political developments like Nazism.1