The island (magazine)

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The island
Die Insel , first cover page of the first edition (excerpt), October 1899
description German literary and art magazine
First edition 1899
attitude 1902
Frequency of publication per month
editor Otto Julius Bierbaum, Alfred Walter Heymel, Rudolf Alexander Schröder
Illustrations by Heinrich Vogelers to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Emperor and the Witch , 1900

Die Insel - "aesthetic-belletristic monthly with picture supplement" was a literary and art magazine that appeared in Munich from 1899 to 1902 as a monthly with book decorations and illustrations and was published by Otto Julius Bierbaum , Alfred Walter Heymel and Rudolf Alexander Schröder .

Despite its only short publication of 36 issues in three volumes, the island was one of the most important German magazines of the beginning literary modern age. Texts by well-known authors such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke appeared in the magazine . But there were also new voices to be read here, such as Robert Walser .

The logo of the magazine, a sailing ship, was designed by Peter Behrens . It is still the Insel Verlag logo that emerged from the magazine.

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Wikisource: Publications and download links  - sources and full texts
  • The publications of Inselverlag , 1899–1909
  • List of all publications by Insel-Verlag 1899–1924 , Leipzig 1924
  • Sarkowski, Heinz (edit.): Fifty Years of the Insel-Bücherei 1912–1962 , Frankfurt 1962
  • Bierbaum, Otto Julius, Heymel, Alfred Walter, Schröder, Rudolf Alexander (eds.): The island. Monthly magazine with book decorations and illustrations. Facsimile edition in twelve volumes with an accompanying volume The first years of Insel Verlag. 1899–1902 by Klaus Schöffling, Frankfurt 1981
  • Kurt Ifkovits: The island. A magazine from the turn of the century. Dissertation, Vienna, 1997