Focusing above all on his poem An Klopstock, the article aims at analizing the relationship between East German poet Johannes Bobrowski and Friedrich Klopstock. Although Bobrowski has many times defined Klopstock as his “Master”, the poem shouldn’t to be seen as an imitation but reveals in his metric and thematical structure a more complex and dialectical relationship toward him and the German Poetry of the Klassik in general. An Klopstock should be read as a poetological statement about the rupture with German Poetry’s tradition era caused by the National socialistic. Post-war poetry can now only relate to his “masters” in a fragmentary form.
