Neue Frankfurter Schule (NFS, New Frankfurt School) is a group of writers and artists which was founded by former members of the editorial staff of the satirical magazine ''
pardon
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''. They have published the magazine ''
Titanic
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'' from 1979.
History
Among the founding members of the group, which first had no name, were:
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F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018)
* (born 1949)
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Robert Gernhardt
Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
Life
Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. I ...
(1937–2006)
* (born 1941)
* (born 1939)
* (1930–2004)
* (born 1929)
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F. K. Waechter
Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned German cartoonist, author, and playwright.
Life
Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His family fled over the Baltic Sea af ...
(1937–2005)
The name Neue Frankfurter Schule was chosen in memory of the philosophical
Frankfurter Schule (Frankfurt School) around
Max Horkheimer
Max Horkheimer (; ; 14 February 1895 – 7 July 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the Frankfurt School of social research. Horkheimer addressed authoritarianism, militari ...
and
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno ( , ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, musicologist, and composer.
He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of criti ...
, among others, which had pursued a critical theory of society in the 1930s. The name Neue Frankfurter Schule alludes firstly to Frankfurt as a centre for many members and the publication of ''Titanic''. Secondly, the name is a satiric allusion to the Franfurter Schule Thirdly, serious similarities connect the NFS to the critical theory of the former group. regards
cultural critic
A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole. Cultural criticism has significant overlap with social and cultural theory. While such criticism is simply part of the self-consciousness of the culture, the social positions of ...
as the focus of the NFS, Michael Rutschky noted that the satirical conscience ("satirisches Bewußtsein") of the NFS is the focus of the Frankfurter Schule.
The name was chosen years after the forming of the group, in 1981, when a good name was needed for an exhibition of works by Gernhardt, Traxlera and Waechter.
A second generation of NFS members has included
Max Goldt
Max Goldt (pseudonym of Matthias Ernst) (born 23 November 1958) is a German writer, columnist and musician.
Early life
Goldt was born in the town of Weende, now Göttingen, to working-class parents originally from Silesia. In 1977, he moved to ...
, , , , , Duo and, after the
Peaceful Revolution
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, .
[K. C. Zehrer, p. 7]
In 2006, the city of Frankfurt acquired c. 7,000 original drawings by Bernstein, Gernhardt, Traxler and Poth for a new museum of comic art, the
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
The Caricatura Museum, official name Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, is a museum for comic art in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It shows a in a permanent exhibition works by the artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and additionally exhi ...
, which was opened on 1 October 2008 as an independent department of the
Historical Museum
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.
Literature
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W. P. Fahrenberg (ed.): ''Die Neue Frankfurter Schule'', ARKANA Göttingen 1987,
* : ''Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche. Die Neue Frankfurter Schule in Wort und Strich und Bild'', Berlin 2001,
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Klaus Cäsar ZehrerDialektik der Satire. Zur Komik von Robert Gernhardt und der ‚Neuen Frankfurter Schule.(dissertation) Universität Bremen. 2002.
References
External links
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Stadt Frankfurt kauft Werke der „Neuen Frankfurter Schule“– Meldung des Hessischen Rundfunks (16. Mai 2006, nicht mehr online)
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Literary circles
Caricature
Culture in Frankfurt