Arnim und die Berliner Romantik

The third colloquium of the International Arnim Society situates Achim von Arnim in the political, culture-political, and literary context of Prussia in the 1810-1820 period. The profusion of literary and journalistic production justifies regarding Arnim's Berlin years (1809-1814) as the zenith of his career. Political and educational issues are addressed alongside the specifically 'Romantic' context of Arnim's Berlin period (Berlin art, Dorothea Veit-Schlegel, Kleist, Eichendorff, Tieck). The volume closes with three emphatically text-analytic studies on Arnim and Brentano and the discussion of a surprising reading of Arnim's 'Wunderhorn' by Rahel Levin.