Hoelderlin's Poltergeists

Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Fruhromantiker Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), Solomon's shapeshifting study presents an audacious English "remix" of Stephan Hermlin's 1970 radio drama Scardanelli, amplifying the complex contexts of Hoelderlin's psychiatric committal and subsequent discharge into the home of a Tubingen carpenter in May 1807. Supplemented by a new translation of Hermlin's memoir essay "Hoelderlin 1944" and the author's interdisciplinary texts and commentaries, this provocative volume furnishes a creative reinterpretation of a contribution to modern audio drama that will speak to playmakers and scholars engaged with German Romanticism, the poetics of translation and the cultural history of radio.