George was born in 1868 in Büdesheim in Bingen [de] (now part of Bingen) in the Grand Duchy of Hesse. His father, also … See more

Many years later, Stefan George told his friends that there had been a woman who was "my world". George met Ida Coblenz, a wealthy and cultured German Jewish heiress who both admired his poems and showed ver… See more

On 25 July 1933 George travelled to Wasserburg on Lake Constance, where he remained for four weeks. He was joined there at various times by Frank Mehnert, Berthold von Stauffenberg, Claus von Stauffenberg, … See more

According to the Metzgers, "When Stefan George died in 1933, there was a grim dissonance between the eulogies from inside and outside Germany, the former claiming George as the prophet of the Third Reich, … See more

From the inception of the Circle, George and his followers represented a literary and cultural revolt against the literary realism trend in German literature during the last decades of the German Empire.
George wa… See more