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Neue Frankfurter Schule

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"Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche /
waren früher selber welche"
Bronze sculpture by Hans Traxler
in front of the Caricatura Museum Frankfurt

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 German satirical magazine pardon. They have published the magazine Titanic from 1979.

History

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Among the founding members of the group, which first had no name, were:

The name Neue Frankfurter Schule was chosen in memory of the philosophical Frankfurter Schule (Frankfurt School) around Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, 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. Oliver Maria Schmitt [de] regards cultural critic as the focus of the NFS,[1] Michael Rutschky noted that the satirical conscience ("satirisches Bewußtsein") of the NFS is the focus of the Frankfurter Schule.[2]

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.[3]

A second generation of NFS members has included Max Goldt, Gerhard Henschel [de], Simon Borowiak [de], Thomas Gsella [de], Ernst Kahl [de], Duo Rattelschneck [de] and, after the Peaceful Revolution, Michael Rudolf [de].[4]

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, which was opened on 1 October 2008 as an independent department of the Historical Museum.

Literature

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  • W. P. Fahrenberg (ed.): Die Neue Frankfurter Schule, ARKANA Göttingen 1987, ISBN 3-923257-70-8
  • Oliver Maria Schmitt [de]: Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche. Die Neue Frankfurter Schule in Wort und Strich und Bild, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-8286-0109-X
  • Klaus Cäsar Zehrer: Dialektik der Satire. Zur Komik von Robert Gernhardt und der ‚Neuen Frankfurter Schule. (dissertation) Universität Bremen. 2002.

References

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  1. ^ O. M. Schmitt, p. 22
  2. ^ Michael Rutschky: Vorrede in WP Fahrenberg (ed.): Die Neue Frankfurter Schule, p. 10
  3. ^ O. M. Schmitt, p. 26
  4. ^ K. C. Zehrer, p. 7
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