The collection
| The collection | |
|---|---|
| description | German literary magazine |
| First edition | September 1933 |
| attitude | August 1935 |
| editor | Klaus Mann |
The Collection - Literary Monthly Journal was a magazine in exile published by Klaus Mann in the Dutch Querido Verlag ( Amsterdam ) . A total of twenty-four issues were published from September 1933 to August 1935.
The collaborating authors announced in the first issue also included those who were still publishing in Germany, including Alfred Döblin , René Schickele , Stefan Zweig and, above all, Klaus Mann's father, Thomas Mann . Although some of these authors initially wanted to see the magazine as a forum for criticism of culture and fascism, without any reference to daily politics, the first issue left no doubt as to its political position and orientation. Klaus Mann wrote in the foreword:
- We want to collect what has the will to a humane future instead of the will to catastrophe; the will to the spirit instead of the will to barbarism…. Those who detest this stupidity and rawness remain German ...; even if this title is temporarily withdrawn from him by the misguided part of his own nation. It is precisely for this repudiated, for this silenced, for this real Germany that we want to be a place of collection. (No. 1, p. 1)
The National Socialist authorities now put pressure on the named authors and their publishers. It is controversial whether some authors reacted to this pressure or because of the political stance of the paper. Stefan Zweig, for example, expressed his surprise that the collection was “not a purely literary, but for the most part a political paper”. Thomas Mann took a similar stance.
Due to the dwindling number of subscribers (the number of copies sold had dropped from the beginning of 2000 to 400), Die Sammlung had to be closed in August 1935, although Klaus Mann worked for months without pay and the magazine was financially supported by Annemarie Schwarzenbach .
The collection employees included:
- Johannes R. Becher
- Félix Bertaux
- Ernst Bloch
- Bertolt Brecht
- Max Brod
- Jean Cocteau
- Alfred Döblin (article only in the first edition)
- Ilya Ehrenburg
- Albert Einstein
- Norbert Elias
- Lion Feuchtwanger
- Bruno Frank
- AM Frey
- André Gide
- Oskar Maria Graf
- Ferdinand Hardekopf
- Thomas Theodor Heine
- Ernest Hemingway
- Stefan Heym
- Aldous Huxley
- Heinrich Eduard Jacob
- Alfred Kantorowicz
- Alfred Kerr
- Hermann Kesten
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Golo man
- Heinrich Mann
- André Maurois
- Walter Mehring
- Walther Rode
- Joseph Roth
- Ernst Toller
- Leon Trotsky
- Jacob Wassermann
- FC Weiskopf
- Arnold Zweig
- Hermynia to the mills
André Gide, Aldous Huxley and Heinrich Mann also supported The Collection , for which they had taken over the patronage, with their reputation. Mann's patronage was the reason that Robert Musil expressly refused to collaborate.
Text output
- 1983 a partial edition was published by Querido, Amsterdam,
- Reprint in two volumes, Rogner et al. Bernhard bei Zweiausendeins, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-80770222-9
literature
- Günter Hartung: Klaus Mann's magazine “The Collection” (Part I). In: Weimar Contributions . Vol. 19, No. 5, 1973, pp. 37-59.
- Angela Huss-Michel: Literary and Political Journals of Exile. 1933–1945 (= Metzler Collection. Vol. 238). Metzler, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-476-10238-6 .
- Fritz H. Landshoff : Amsterdam, Keizersgracht 333, Querido Publisher: Memories of a publisher; with letters and documents. Berlin 2001, pages 60-69.
- Uwe Naumann (Ed.): “There is no peace until the end.” Klaus Mann (1906–1949). Pictures and documents. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-23106-9 .
- Ulrike Spring: Publishing activities in exile in the Netherlands 1933–1940. Vienna 1994, p. 25 ff., (Vienna, University, diploma thesis, 1994), online (PDF; 743.4 kB) .