Definition of Wandervogel in English:
Wandervogel
nounPlural Wandervögel ˈvandəˌfəʊɡəlˈvandɐˌfoːɡlˈwändərˌfōɡəl
1A member of a German youth organization founded at the end of the 19th century for the promotion of outdoor activities and folk culture.
Example sentencesExamples
- While in Germany he joined the ‘Wandervogel’ group - a group that was anti-Semite in its views but seems to have tolerated Jews to be in the movement.
- The Nazis also absorbed the German Youth Movement, the Wandervogel, which talked of our mystical relationship with the earth.
- The ‘Wandervogel’ youth groups were the guitar-playing nature-loving members of the inter-war counter-culture and forerunners of the Hitler Youth.
- In its early years it was identified with the German youth movement (Wandervogel), through such contemporary composers as Hugo Distler, and with the associated rediscovery of early music.
- 1.1 A wanderer, especially someone who travels the world on foot.
as modifier a jet-age Wandervogel intimacy with the scene on several continents
Origin
German, literally 'bird of passage'.