The Word (Exile Magazine)
The word. Literary monthly was a German literary exile magazine . It appeared monthly from July 1936 in the Jourgaz publishing house in Moscow , from July 1938 until the end of publication in March 1939 in the Meshdunarodnaja Kniga publishing house there. The magazine was published by Bertolt Brecht , Lion Feuchtwanger and Willi Bredel , the editor-in-chief was Fritz Erpenbeck .
The founding of the magazine was suggested in 1935 at the first International Writers' Congress in Defense of Culture . After the magazine's sales areas in German-speaking countries were lost due to the expansion of the German Empire, it was merged with the magazine Internationale Blätter .
Employees included: Johannes R. Becher , Klara Blum , Schalom Ben-Chorin , Walter Benjamin , Ernst Bloch , Max Brod , Alfred Döblin , Louis Fürnberg , Oskar Maria Graf , Walter Haenisch , Stefan Heym , Hugo Huppert , Alfred Kerr , Egon Erwin Kisch , Alfred Kurella , Rudolf Leonhard , Georg Lukács , Heinrich Mann , Klaus Mann , Thomas Mann , Ludwig Marcuse , Martin Andersen Nexø , Balder Olden , Theodor Plivier , Ludwig Renn , Anna Seghers , Ernst Toller , Herwarth Walden , Erich Weinert , FC Weiskopf , Ernst Wiechert , Arnold Zweig , Stefan Zweig .
literature
- Thomas Dietzel, Hans-Otto Hügel : German literary magazines 1880-1945. A repertory. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3598106459 , p. 1317 f.
- Lieselotte Maas: Handbook of the German Exile Press 1933-1945. Munich, Vienna 1976–1981, pp. 614–620.
- Wolfgang Lehmann: The word . In: Herbert Greiner-Mai (ed.): Small dictionary of world literature . VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig 1983. pp. 73-74.
- Reprints
- The word. Literary monthly. Reprinted in 11 volumes. Register volume with an afterword to Fritz Erpenbeck's magazine. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1968. Also: De Boekenvriend, Hilversum 1969.