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fogs-606	Bunzel, Anja	Johanna Kinkel’s Political Art Songs as a Contribution to the Socio-Cultural Identity of the German Democratic Movement during the Late 1840s	2016	20	.pdf	application/pdf	8667	495	62	Microsoft Word - Bunzel master.docx   Focus on German Studies 22         1      Bunzel         Johanna Kinkel’s Political Art Songs as a Contribution to the Socio-Cultural Identity of the German Democratic Movement during the Late 1840s Anja Bunzel Maynooth University Introduction Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858),1 a German composer, writer, music pedagogue and wife to the German professor, poet and revolutionary Gottfried Kinkel (1815-1882),2 produced a remarkable number of art songs, stage works and novels during her short life.3 Besides such typical Romantic themes as love and nature, Kinkel’s art songs also include socio-political subjects praising her home, the Rhineland, and encouraging the democratic revolutionary movement of the 1840s to fight for a united Germany.4 Many of Kinkel’s poems and art songs were created within the context of the Maikäferbund, a political and literary association founded by the Kinkels in 1840. Johanna and Gottfried Kinkel’s poems In her Demokratenlied, Johanna Kinkel proves her ability to compose memorable and performable tunes to her own words (Table 3).	cache/fogs-606.pdf	txt/fogs-606.txt