The German and Spanish-speaking worlds have, over the centuries,
developed an intrinsic relationship, one which predates the
Habsburg dynasty and the Renaissance and baroque periods. The
cross-fertilization and challenges have been both fruitful and
complex with novel inventions surfacing in one culture often
achieving their greatest prosperity in the other: Martin Luther's
Protestant Reformation stimulated a response in Spain that was to
define the European Counter Reformation; Spanish Baroque writers
were seminal in the development of German Romanticism; Carl
Christian Friedrich Krause and other nineteenth-century liberals
provided the foundation for Spanish reformist efforts on the one
hand, while German conservatives like Novalis and Adam Muller
inspired conservatives on the other; the music of Richard Wagner
transformed Spanish music and the Spanish stage at the turn of the
twentieth century; Pablo Picasso and other artists of the Spanish
avant-garde sparked the enthusiasm of the Germans before the Nazi
era. Today, German and Spanish intellectuals and writers share a
similar commitment to the creation of a European culture in the
face of resistance from other members of the European Union.
Viewed from a variety of disciplines this volume explores the
relentlessly consistent, albeit often forgotten connections between
the two linguistic and cultural groups revealing the myriad of ways
in which they have shared and transformed literature, art, culture,
politics, and history.
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