Jean Paul - zwischen Klassizismus und Romantik

Abstract

Starting from three episodes the contribution deals with the multiple confrontations and interferences among Classicism, anti-Classicism and Romanticism in the period around 1800. Jean Paul stands respectively at the center of these episodes. He is both an observer and a catalyst of this so exciting constellations. The first episode shows Jean Paul in June 1796 in Weimar: Jean Paul meets Goethe, supported especially by Herder. A kind of love-hate takes its course. The second episode takes place in May 1800, also in Weimar: Jean Paul gets an unexpected visit from the young Friedrich Schlegel. A tension-filled relationship, marked by aesthetic affinity and antipathy, comes with the encounter to its climax. The same is also true in the field of philosophy as far as Jean Paul’s relationship with Fichte is concerned. He meets him in Berlin in January 1801.