Young Vienna
Jung-Wien is a group of Viennese authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, acted as their spokesman Hermann Bahr and pioneered the development away from naturalism towards the aestheticism - and thus to literary modernism - goods transported. The most important organ of the group was Bahrs weekly Die Zeit.
The group was formed in 1891 out, with the founding by Bahr is a mystification. Meeting of the group was the Griensteidl where young authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arthur Schnitzler, Peter Altenberg and Felix Salten met. Bahr worked in equal measure as a mentor and as an agent of foreign literature. His contacts with publishers and magazines he used to promote young and unknown authors.
Although younger, more modern writers - most clearly Karl Kraus - soon distanced themselves to the group, it stimulated quite significantly the emergence of literary modernism in Austria and beyond the German -speaking world. Important writers of the early 20th century, such as Robert Musil, Joseph Roth and Odon von Horvath were significantly influenced by Jung-Wien.
Members of the group or environment
- Peter Altenberg
- Leopold von Andrian
- Raoul Auerheimer
- Hermann Bahr
- Richard Beer -Hofmann
- Felix Dormann
- Paul Goldmann
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Karl Kraus
- Anton Lindner
- Felix Salten
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Richard Specht
- Jakob Wassermann
- Stefan Zweig