Word: klopstock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero of German history, Arminius was a great Nazi favorite, but here Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later German "descendants" like Blucher, who fought against Napoleon; Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs an instruction manual to decipher...
...ineffable silliness, are almost a match for the scene in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther when the hero and his beloved Lotte are silently savoring the beauty of a landscape after a storm. She utters one word, the name of a popular poet of the day: "Klopstock!" According to Goethe, Werther is "overcome by the flood of emotions which she evoked with this name...