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World literature today, 2023-09, Vol.97 (5), p.10-11
Ort / Verlag
Norman: University of Oklahoma
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
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Literature Online (LION)
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The concept also features quite centrally in the work of Schiller's contemporary, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as in the art of German painter Caspar David Friedrich; the latter's iconic piece Wanderer above the Sea of Fog- showing a man firmly standing on a jagged boulder while facing a churning, misting sea-is probably one of the most famous depictions of sehnsucht ever made. Judging from the success of their music, sehnsucht remains a powerful idea: in 1998 Rammstein's album achieved the remarkable feat of becoming the only German-language album to ever reach platinum status in the US-meaning that it sold over one million copies-and the band has just released a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of the album. For the title track, the band creates an epic, apocalyptic-sounding song about longing for a lost love-like the album it features on, the song is at once abrasive, vulnerable, and mystical, translating that sentiment of longing into something broadly appealing to twenty-first-century minds. In explaining their findings, the authors noted that Americas frontier spirit promotes ideas of independence, whereas Germany's longer history and stronger social institutions favor ideas of interdependence. [...]Germans are possibly more prone to accepting that some things are unattainable, compared to Americans, and thus more comfortable longing for things that can't be had.