Zeydel: Storm and Stress 
7 
Later he adds that 
“Der Wirrwarr oder Sturm und Drang” is the play which gave its 
name to the movement (p. 326). 
Richard M. Meyer, s while preferring the title “Sturm und 
Drang” — he says the movement is so called 
. . . mit sehr gliicklicher Benutzung eines Klingerschen Dramentitels 0 
uses also “Genieperiode” (p. 269). Bartels, 10 too, prefers 
“Sturm und Drang.” But none of these writers add any fur- 
ther information on the origin of that expression and its 
application to the movement.. 
One other recent work deserves to be consulted in this con- 
nection. It is A. W. Porterfield’s An Outline of German 
Romanticism A In his chapter on “Storm and Stress” the 
author, writing primarily for students, gives the following 
unusually full information on the rise and development of 
the name : 
The movement took its name from Klinger's drama of like name 
(1776), though this drama was first, and more happily, called “Der 
Wirrwarr,” Klinger changing it to “Sturm und Drang” at the sug- 
gestion of Christoph Kaufmann, who took the idea from Lavater. The 
expression “Sturm und Drang” did not, however, become current until 
1828, when Tieck made it so by discussion connected with his edition 
of Lenz’s works (p. 10). 
We have now considered a sufficient number of the more 
recent works on the subject to warrant the conclusion that 
the term “Sturm und Drang” as applied to the literary move- 
ment has not only come to be accepted universally as a part 
of the great stock of literary tradition, but that most writers 
consider it so familiar as to require no detailed explanation. 
If we examine the earlier histories of literature, we find 
a situation somewhat different. Koberstein, 12 for example, is 
familiar with the name “Sturm und Drang,” to be sure. But 
in his work it occurs as a rule only in the Table of Contents 
and Notes, most of which are later additions. In the text it 
8 Die Deutsche Literatur bis znim Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts, 5. bis 9. Tausend, 
Berlin, 1920. 
9 P. 464. Cf. also Berendt and Wolff, F. M. Klingers dramatische Jugendxverke, 
1. Band, Leipzig, 1912, p. xlvi, for a similar attitude. 
10 Geschiehte der Dents chen Literatur, Grosse Ausgabe in 3 Banden, 1. Band, 
Leipzig, 1924, p. 487 ff. 
11 Boston, New York, Chicago, and London, 1914. 
12 Gesahichte der deutsehen National’ iteratur, 5. umgearbeitete Auflage von Karl 
Bartsch, 2. Teil, Leipzig, 1873. The first edition appeared in 1827. 
