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Salons of Romanticism§Contributions of a Wiepersdorfer Colloquium on Theory and History of the Salon. Ed. by Hartwig Schultz. 378 p. w. 18 ill.§(Text in German)§The ideas of German Romanticism gave rise to the foundation of literary salons in Jena and Berlin, in which Romantic poetesses played an outstanding role.§The papers collected in the first part of this volume clarify the theoretical basis of this salon movement inspired by women.§A second part is then devoted to Rahel Varnhagen's salon and confronts the question whether this famous Jewish salon in Berlin was a myth and a construct of research. The Varnhagen papers from Cracow, which are now accessible, open up new research sources.§The third and final section is devoted to the "Mistress" of Wiepersdorf, Bettina von Arnim, and centres on the extent to which Bettina's political activities in her later years can be seen as a form of salon activity.
