German Romanticism Between the GDR and Nothingness The "aesthetic anarchist" Kipping sprouted through the poetry of Trakl, Hölderlin, Novalis, Geim, succumbing to the fires from Niemandsland to save the cinema of the GDR, the most backward of the Warsaw Bloc, but was banned from the profession until German reunification. The graduation poem, shortened by mentor Varneke from 1.5 hours to half an hour, is the vanguard of timelessness, the era of the last directors of the GDR: “generations without chances”. His film poetry is a visual correspondence to a verbal image, which makes the poems dissolve in a surreal frame, whose stagnant temperament develops an imaginary dimensionality. Madness is not embodied in the figure of the poet, but fills the space around him. The symbolic journey leads to lonely peaks: the finale is covered by a rich blue light that emits a blue flower. In his petals, Hölderlin writes: “What remains are the steps of the poet.”
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