Conference 12.–14.9.2025


Confusing, unworldly, sick – realism met Romanticism with harsh criticism. At the same time, romantic impulses remain effective and continue to exert their influence on literary realism. This is also the case in Theodor Storm’s work, when a dyke ghost haunts the marshes, the silt mysteriously ferments on the seashore in the evening or the forest queen is sung about in the quiet forest at midday.

Where are the boundaries between realistic and romantic writing in Storm’s work? Which motifs of Romanticism does he include and which not? So what is Storm’s romanticism and how is it compatible with his realism? This is what the Storm Conference 2025 aims to clarify.
 

 

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