Title : Concepts and Images of the Future in Recent German Poetry

Author(s) : Reinhold Grimm

Pages : 1-12

Abstract in English : German poetry has been obsessed with concepts and images of the future for decades. The present article concentrates on the pertinent contributions by the two leading German poets, Gunter Kunert and Hans Magnus since the late 1980s. What they portray is, on the whole, a rather gloomy picture, albeit not without a bit of redeemding irony.