theme startpage as static page

Hi
first of all I must admit, that I am not very experienced with wp yet. So, sorry for any ‘stupid’ question I may ask.

In the modality theme options I setup a startpage, where I selected all sections I want to have on this page. Since I do not want the blog posts on the start page, I created a static page ‘News’, where I want to post my blog articles. Via settings-reading, I can choose my ‘News’ page as the blog page, but then this page is automatically set as my homepage.

Then I read through some dozens of articles on the web, how to create a static front page. But I do not want to create a new homepage, I want to use the one I created within the theme. But the theme startpage is not included in the dropdown list on settings-reading page under startpage.

So, I hope my description was clear enough. Your feedback, tipps and hints are very much appreciated. Thank you.

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Frank