Neue Frankfurter Schule (NFS, New Frankfurt School) is a group of writers and artists which was founded by former members of the editorial staff of the German satirical magazine ''

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''. They have published the magazine ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British ocean liner that sank in the early hours of 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers a ...

'' from 1979.

History

Among the founding members of the group, which first had no name, were: * F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018) * (born 1949) *

Robert Gernhardt Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet. Life Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. In ...

(1937–2006) * (born 1941) * (born 1939) * (1930–2004) * (born 1929) *

F. K. Waechter Friedrich Karl Waechter (3 November 1937 in Danzig – 16 September 2005 in Frankfurt) was a renowned Germany, German cartoonist, author, and playwright. Life Waechter was born in Danzig as a son of a teacher. His family fled over the Baltic ...

(1937–2005) The name Neue Frankfurter Schule was chosen in memory of the philosophical

Frankfurter Schule The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical theory. It is associated with the Institute for Social Research founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main (today known as Goethe University Frankfurt). Formed du ...

(Frankfurt School) around

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and

Theodor W. Adorno Theodor W. Adorno ( ; ; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, whose work has com ...

, among others, which had pursued a critical theory of society in the 1930s. The name Neue Frankfurter Schule alludes firstly to Frankfurt as a centre for many members and the publication of ''Titanic''. Secondly, the name is a satiric allusion to the Franfurter Schule Thirdly, serious similarities connect the NFS to the critical theory of the former group. regards

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as the focus of the NFS, Michael Rutschky noted that the satirical conscience ("satirisches Bewußtsein") of the NFS is the focus of the Frankfurter Schule. The name was chosen years after the forming of the group, in 1981, when a good name was needed for an exhibition of works by Gernhardt, Traxlera and Waechter. A second generation of NFS members has included

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, , , , , Duo and, after the

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, .K. C. Zehrer, p. 7 In 2006, the city of Frankfurt acquired c. 7,000 original drawings by Bernstein, Gernhardt, Traxler and Poth for a new museum of comic art, the

Caricatura Museum Frankfurt The Caricatura Museum, official name Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, is a museum for comic art in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It shows a in a permanent exhibition works by the artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and additionally exhibi ...

, which was opened on 1 October 2008 as an independent department of the

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Literature

* W. P. Fahrenberg (ed.): ''Die Neue Frankfurter Schule'', ARKANA Göttingen 1987, * : ''Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche. Die Neue Frankfurter Schule in Wort und Strich und Bild'', Berlin 2001, *

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Dialektik der Satire. Zur Komik von Robert Gernhardt und der ‚Neuen Frankfurter Schule.
(dissertation) Universität Bremen. 2002.

References

External links

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Stadt Frankfurt kauft Werke der „Neuen Frankfurter Schule“
– Meldung des Hessischen Rundfunks (16. Mai 2006, nicht mehr online)

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