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Why did Romanticism as an aesthetic phenomenon evolve into a Heimatkunst movement and the \u201cWandervogel\u201d youth culture? Literary scholar Raphael St\u00fcbe has been awarded this year\u2019s Novalis Prize for his exploration of this question.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Raphael St\u00fcbe, recipient of the 2025 Novalis Prize.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Early 19th century Romanticism experienced a vibrant resurgence towards its end. What started around 1800 as an aesthetic project developed about a century later into a Neo-Romanticism with cultural-political significance \u2013 and a few decades after that, the Nazis would appropriate Romantic imagery for their own purposes. How can this trajectory be explained? In search of answers, literary scholar Raphael St\u00fcbe \u2013 who completed his studies at the University of M\u00fcnster \u2013 encountered a striking gap in the research. A simultaneously launched graduate program on the \u201cRomanticism Model\u201d at the University of Jena confirmed his determination to delve deeper. Now, as a research associate at the Institute for German Literature and Its Didactics and at Freies Deutsches Hochstift (German Romanticism Museum), St\u00fcbe has been honored for his doctoral dissertation. His thesis, titled \u201cNeo-Romanticism at the Turn of the Century: Transformations of a Romantic Narrative Model around 1900\u201d, was awarded the 2025 Novalis Prize by the International Novalis Society and the Research Center for European Romanticism at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00fcbe\u2019s research traces the rediscovery, appropriation, transformation, and critique of Romanticism around 1900. Looking at texts by authors like Heinrich Mann and Hermann Hesse, St\u00fcbe identifies a shift away from early Romantic strategies of irony and multiperspectivity toward monoperspectivity. This development, he says, was already embedded in Romanticism itself. \u201cI believe,\u201d the awardee said in an interview with University of Jena, \u201cyou can only fully understand literary Romanticism if you consider both sides: Romantic literature also formulates a critique of modernity from within its own logic. \u2026 I illustrate this in my book using an arrow model that gradually drifts apart: from a shared interest in Romantic themes, two distinct forms of appropriation emerge \u2013 one that extends into literary modernism, and another that counters modern complexity with buzzwords like \u2018health\u2019 and \u2018race.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his habilitation project \u201cEither\/Or: Crises of Decision in the Vorm\u00e4rz Period\u201d, St\u00fcbe continues his engagement with the societal issues he has already touched on in his earlier work. The Novalis Prize, endowed with \u20ac2,500, is awarded every two years by the International Novalis Society and the Research Center for European Romanticism at the University of Jena. The prestigious prize honors outstanding and pioneering research in the form of dissertations and habilitation theses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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