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Contents 1 Cleanup 2 Literally: "storm and urge" 3 Irrelevant Detail 4 Article re-creation 5 Yes, but what is it? 6 yes but 7 Germany W/P 8 order of sections in article 9 Romantic Music?

[edit] Cleanup

This article badly needs cleanup so I am slapping a tag on it. If I have time I will get around to doing some initial work, but at a minimum I suggest that a proper breakdown be provided:

• origins of the term/movement
• aesthetic and artistic goals
• literary significance in the second half of the 18th c in Germany
• musical significance ditto
• End of Sturm und Drang and legacy

Plus anything else one can think of. Thoughts? Eusebeus 10:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Literally: "storm and urge"

I had a German teacher who called it "Storm and Stress" and I assume she's correct. Plus it sounds nicer to me. Ich 02:38, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)

I'm German, and "stress" seems wrong to me. The German word for "stress" is "Stress"; "Drang" means an urge to do something, so "storm and urge" sounds like a much better translation. I'll change this and add a note that "storm and stress" is also encountered in English-speaking countries. -- Schnee (cheeks clone) 17:16, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

In Germany Sturm und Drang is not considered part of the Romanticism. There is the line of 1) Sturm und Drang (Goehte, Schiller and others), 2) Weimarer Klassik (Goethe, Schiller) and 3) Romantik. The difference is that Sturm und Drang is more critic then Romantik. And how is Alexander Lessing? Do you mean Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?

They mean "stress" as in "I stressed to him to do that". So stress can be considered correct. Therefore it will be edited.

Sturm und Drang has always been translated into English as Storm and Stress. Always. Eusebeus 10:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm also German but I'd translate it to Storm and Longing..--DerMeister 18:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Irrelevant Detail

While I find the tid bit about Harry Potter fascinating, unless it is elaborated to explain why Rowling did this and what relation Durmstrang might have to the Sturm and Drang movement, I truly fail to see why it is included in this article. I find that it only confuses the issue here (and I have enough trouble understanding Sturm and Drang as it is!) Anyway, just a suggestion... 85.212.30.87 11:25, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

For readers of the Harry Potter series, it IS useful--the Durmstrang kids are dark and seem to exude the Sturm und Drang concept. Since Harry Potter seems to be widely read, it doesn't bother me that much to leave it in. Just my 2c. Rob 13:11, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

While they might not be I don't see why a short list of trivial references to the movement wouldn't be worth mentioning, as long as their sources are mentioned and have good references. In addition to the Durmstrang school in the Harry Potter universe, the character Talon Karrde in the Star Wars Expanded Universe owned pet creatures named Sturm and Drang. Just a thought. Willbyr (talk | contribs) 15:48, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Even if the Potter reference is kept at all, it is in entirely the wrong section of the page. The fact that Rowling included a school (possibly) inspired by Sturm und Drang, that doesn't make anything Harry Potter a "Characteristic of Sturm und Drang." 85.178.26.200 (talk) 10:34, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Article re-creation

I just created this article as a stub. From the above discussion, it appears that this article existed once upon a time and was deleted. We should try to obtain the text of the deleted article. — goethean ॐ 18:20, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

That would appear to be impossible. If you read the logs to the article, it shows that Jimbo Wales apparently deleted the previous version due to copyright infringements and the like. However, I just checked Google's cache, and it's still there.[1] [Note: by 01:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC) the page has been recached.] — ^ignis _scripta 18:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Aha. — goethean ॐ 18:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

I honestly think the previous Pop culture references section had little-to-no value whatsoever and oughtn't to be included while we recreate this article leaning toward much more valuable depths. — ^ignis _scripta 19:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yes, but what is it?

The current article tells who was involved and what the principal works are, but fails to say what Sturm und Drang is. What's it about? How would you know it if you read it? Jorend 18:49, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I second that. Readers should be given an explaination of the style/philosophy/concept/theme associated with this literary movement. I've seen the phrase "Sturm & Drang" referenced in several modern and avant-garde forms of media (see authors Salman Rushdie and Tom Robbins, songwriter Tom Waits, industrial rock band KMFDM), so it would be nice to know just what is being referenced, rather the somewhat ambiguous "German literary movement". Now I'd gladly provide the necessary info, but frankly I'm quite uneducated in this movement. --buck 16:57, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] yes but

Hölderin an the tree, where are? --204.116.91.20 12:12, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

The following comment was added to the article by 195.52.112.34 (talk · contribs)

Das meiste was hir steht ist nicht immer richtig. Er ist zumbeispiel in 1737 geboren, das sagen manche jedenfalls. Goethe ging und produtzierte kinder mit seiner ersten Frau. Er hatte drei, wenn alles stimmt, worüber mann redet, doch ich glaube er hatte nur zwei. Denn die erste ist gestorben

— goethean ॐ 14:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

A loose translation of the text that this German was kind enough to post (I don't think he trusts his English) "Most of what is here isn't exactly correct. It (Sturm & Drang) was born in 1737, according to many people, at any rate. Goete went and produced children with his first wife. He had three, if everything is correct that I hear, but I believe he had but two. Because the first one died. Ich (talk) 16:28, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Wunderbar. — goethean ॐ 17:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Germany W/P

In the German w/p the article on Sturm und Drang gives a range of different details. Could the English w/p be harmonised with the German details? Ozdaren 09:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] order of sections in article

Should the section of this article on literary Sturm und Drang not come first, and then the music section? - Just for simple reasons of chronology, firstly, but it could also be argued that the literature is the more what one associates with the movement? John the revelator 15:20, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

I fully agree, I am switching their places. Somebody can undo if they feel it's wrong - but music tends to always be a little behind visual/literary art, tending to take its cue from it once it's been establish there, and this is no exception Lethesl 10:30, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Romantic Music?

Why no mention of Beethoven, Berlioz (and even Wagner) ? Surely these are more canonically "Sturm und Drang" than Haydn? 87.194.171.29 (talk) 03:07, 20 April 2008 (UTC)