The Play Names the Sturm und Drang Epoch
- When
- 1777
- Where
- German literary movement named after the play
Klinger's Sturm und Drang gave its name to the proto-Romanticist movement in German literature and music of the late 1760s to early 1780s.
The phrase Sturm und Drang first appeared as the title of Klinger's play, and the work gave its name to the artistic epoch. The movement it named was a proto-Romanticist current in German literature and music occurring between the late 1760s and early 1780s, in which individual subjectivity and extremes of emotion were given free expression in reaction to the perceived constraints of Enlightenment rationalism. Its adherents rebelled against French neoclassical rules and provided a foundation for 19th-century romanticism.
Sources
- Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-27
- Sturm und Drang Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-03
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