Borges translations of german WWI poetry-spanish expressionism? ¿un expresionismo español?

During his first stay in Geneva from 1914 to 1919, a very young Jorge Luis Borges enthusiastically engaged himself in learning the German language and reading widely on German authors. It was in the 1920s, at a time when the Hispanic image of Germany was still shaped by the romantic poetry of Goethe, Hölderlin, and Novalis, when Borges began translating and publishing German Expressionist poems in the Spanish avant-garde journals Grecia, Ultra and Cervantes. This close analysis of three First World War poems (Ernst Stadtler’s 'Der Aufbruch', Kurt Heynicke’s 'Hinter der Front' and Wilhelm Klemm’s 'Schlacht an der Marne') will focus on the transmission of content, intent and style, which will further reveal the extent to which the Argentinian author assimilated Expressionism and made it closer to the Spanish Ultraist movement of the time.