Judgment Day (literature)

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Two volumes from the series by Franz Jung and Franz Kafka Two volumes from the series by Franz Jung and Franz Kafka
Two volumes from the series by Franz Jung and Franz Kafka

Jüngste Tag was a series of brochures that was published from 1913 to 1921 in Leipzig (and from 1919 in Munich ) by the publisher Kurt Wolff and his editors Franz Werfel and Max Brod . It was intended to be a forum for new poetry and over time it became one of the most important publication sites for expressionist literature .

In the group consisting of a total of 86 volumes series published, among others, Johannes R. Becher , Gottfried Benn , Paul Boldt , Kasimir Edschmid , Albert Ehrenstein , Carl Ehrenstein , Ivan Goll , Martin Gumpert , Ferdinand Hardekopf , Walter Hasenclever , Emmy Hennings , Franz Jung , Franz Kafka , Bohuslav Kokoschka , Oskar Kokoschka , Gottfried Kölwel , Otfried Krzyzanowski ,Rudolf Leonhard , Ernst Wilhelm Lotz , Mynona , Hans Reimann , Eugen Roth , Ludwig Rubiner , Ruth Schaumann , René Schickele , Marcel Schwob , Hans Siemsen , Carl Sternheim , Ernst Toller , Georg Trakl , Johannes Urzidil and Berthold Viertel as well as Max Brod and Franz Werfel .

Franz Werfel described the program of the series in the first brochure from 1913 as follows:

"The new poet will definitely be, start from scratch, for him there is no reminiscence , because he, like no one else, will feel how insubstantial the retrospective on literature is."

literature

Bibliographies

  • Ludwig Dietz: Kurt Wolff's library “The Youngest Day”: its history and bibliography . In: Philobiblon , Vol. 7 (1963), No. 2, pp. 96-118
  • Josef Smolen: Judgment Day: a new bibliography . Blanke, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-934577-13-X
  • Josef Smolen: Judgment Day: a new bibliography . 2nd expanded edition. Burgverlag, Vienna 2015. ISBN 978-3-9501100-6-7

facsimile

  • Heinz Schöffler (Ed.): The Judgment Day. The library of an era . Facsimile edition reproduced after the first editions. Scheffler, Frankfurt am Main, 1970 (Volume 1) and 1972 (Volume 2)

Web links

Wikisource: Directory of the volumes published in the DJT series  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Anz, Michael Stark: Expressionism. Manifestos and documents on German literature 1910–1920 . Metzler, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-476-00412-0 , p. 360