Hoelderlins Poltergeists

Depicting the literary, erotic, political and clinical trajectory of the Swabian Frhromantiker Friedrich Hlderlin (17701843), Solomons shapeshifting study presents an audacious English remix of Stephan Hermlins 1970 radio drama Scardanelli, amplifying the complex contexts of Hlderlins psychiatric committal and subsequent discharge into the home of a Tbingen carpenter in May 1807. Supplemented by a new translation of Hermlins memoir essay Hlderlin 1944 and the authors 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.