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Hölderlin and the Consequences

An Essay on the German 'Poet of Poets'

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  1. Rüdiger Görner

    1. Queen Mary University of London Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, London, UK

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  • Introduction to Hölderlin's work, person, myth
  • Testimonials from literature, philosophy, music, and media
  • Gripping portrait of a stranger

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. “Come! into the Open, Friend!” or: A Word of Introduction for the Anglophone Reader

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 1-8

  3. Attuning Recollection

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 9-13

  4. Following Hölderlin, Along the Traces of His Words

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 15-20

  5. Hölderlin’s Sense of Language

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 21-32

  6. Consequences (I): Measuring Hölderlin’s Poetic Language-Spaces

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 33-47

  7. Consequences (II): Hölderlin and Homeland (“Heimat”)

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 49-62

  8. Consequence (III): Hölderlin and the Retrospective Visionary

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 63-68

  9. Hölderlin as a Critic of Culture

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 69-81

  10. Thus, Hölderlin Came Amongst the Biographers and Editors

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 83-102

  11. Existence and Parataxis: Hölderlin’s Controversial Thinking—Adorno Versus Heidegger

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 103-111

  12. “A Sign We Are, Without Interpretation”: An Afterlife in Literary Interpretations

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 113-124

  13. “Remembering Floating Hölderlin Towers” or: Writing Hölderlin

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 125-142

  14. “[…] but soon we will be but a song”: Musical Reflections of Hölderlin

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 143-153

  15. Credits with Peter Weiss or: Hölderlin/Scardanelli as Media Event

    • Rüdiger Görner
    Pages 155-160

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 161-168
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About this book

"A sign we are, uninterpreted. Painless we are and have almost / lost the language in a foreign country." Thus begins the second version of Friedrich Hölderlin's hymn dedicated to goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. "Hölderlin and the Consequences" wants to remember this 'poet of poets' and consider what his unmatched poems have stimulated, even triggered, in others. This scholarly essay examines the legacy of a poet who was, by and large, ostracized in his time, a master of language, who was declared a stranger by his contemporaries until he became a stranger to himself. Hölderlin's multiple experience of foreignness and alienation was later counteracted by often ideologically motivated attempts to appropriate him. Rüdiger Görner presents this complex context as a special case in recent literary history.


This book is a translation of an original German 1st edition, "Hölderlin und die Folgen" by Rüdiger Görner, published by J.B. Metzler, imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2016. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com).  The author (with the support of Josh Torabi) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Queen Mary University of London Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, London, UK

    Rüdiger Görner

About the author

Rüdiger Görner is Professor of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He is a Fellow of the German Academy for Language and Poetry as well as the recipient of the German Language Award (2012) and the Reimar Lüst Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2015). For his contribution to Anglo-German Cultural Relations he was awarded the Order of Merit by the German Federal President (2016).

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