The article under studies deals with the German language literature of Bukovyna at the turn of the century, which may be referred to as the crisis interval of its development. It was the so-called “respite” between the two periods: the 60s-80s of the XIX century (ER Neubauer, LA Simiginowicz-Staufe, JG Obrist, KE Franzos) and the inter-and post-war years, the latter two related to the activities of two generations of German-Jewish poets (A. Margul-Sperber, R. Auslander, M. Rosenkranz, A. Kittner, D. Goldfeld; P. Celan, M. Winkler, S. Meerbaum-Eisinger). The creative activities of Chernivtsi German-speaking authors of the” fin de siecle “period (L. Rosenzweig, K. Pekelmann, A. Norst, FR Kaindl, F. Porubski), unlike that of the previous and the following stages, did not acquire broad recognition and remained a literary phenomenon of local significance. This is why the time span at the turn of the century has been marked.
