Naming Puns (was Re: The Grim?)

[melclaros]

No: HPFGUIDX 95186

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "khilari2000" <hannah at r...> 
wrote:
> > Geoff:
> > I particularly like the play on words with the school names, 
> > especially Durmstrang.
> 
> I didn't realise that one was a pun, please explain it to me.


Mel:
It's not a pun, but it's delicious wordplay on "Sturm and Drang"
this clip from encyclopedia.com:


Sturm und Drang (shtoorm oont dräng) or Storm and Stress, movement 
in German literature that flourished from c.1770 to c.1784. It takes 
its name from a play by F. M. von Klinger, Wirrwarr; oder, Sturm und 
Drang (1776). The ideas of Rousseau were a major stimulus of the 
movement, but it evolved more immediately from the influence of 
Herder, Lessing, and others. With Sturm und Drang, German authors 
became cultural leaders of Europe, writing literature that was 
revolutionary in its stress on subjectivity and on the unease of man 
in contemporary society. The movement was distinguished also by the 
intensity with which it developed the theme of youthful genius in 
rebellion against accepted standards, by its enthusiasm for nature, 
and by its rejection of the rules of 18th-century neoclassical 
style. The great figure of the movement was Goethe, who wrote its 
first major drama, Götz von Berlichingen (1773), and its most 
sensational and representative novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther 
(1774). Other writers of importance were Klopstock, J. M. R. Lenz, 
and Friedrich Müller. The last major figure was Schiller, whose Die 
Räuber and other early plays were also a prelude to romanticism. 
 

Mel