Gallery of dreamers
Die Galerie der Phantasten was a series of books published by Georg Müller Verlag in Munich , published between 1914 and 1922 by Hanns Heinz Ewers .
It appeared in both simple and bibliophile editions and presented a cross-section of fantastic literature in eight volumes, which were provided with illustrations by important contemporary graphic artists and had many editions. Among them were Ernst Stern and Paul Haase , Richard Teschner and Alfred Kubin , whose novel The Other Side with its own illustrations was also published here.
In addition to authors such as Oskar Panizza and Karl Hans Strobl , Edgar Allan Poe and Honoré de Balzac were also represented, whose early work reveals influences from English horror literature and E. T. A. Hoffmann , the most influential German-speaking narrator of this genre.
Ewers, whose work is pervaded by numerous motifs of decadence and who wrote the novel Horst Wessel in 1932 . A German fate wrote, presented with the volume My Burial, a collection with its own stories.
overview
author | title | introduction | illustrator | Publishing year |
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ETA Hoffmann | Fantastic stories | Ferruccio Busoni | Ernst Stern | undated [1914] |
Edgar Allan Poe | The sea of fog | Hanns Heinz Ewers | Alfred Kubin | 1914 |
Oskar Panizza | Visions of twilight | Hannes Rauch | Paul Haase | 1917 |
Karl Hans Strobl | Lemuria. Strange stories | Leonhard Adelt | Richard Teschner | 1917 |
Alfred Kubin | The other side | Alfred Kubin | 1917 | |
Hans Heinz Ewers | My funeral | Stanislaw Przybyszewski | Fritz Schimmbeck | 1917 |
Honoré de Balzac | Mystical stories | Georg Goyert | Alfred Kubin | 1920 |
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer | Of devils, ghosts and demons | Hans Krüger-Welf | Paul Haase | 1922 |
literature
- Rein A. Zondergeld : Gallery of Fantastics . In: Lexicon of Fantastic Literature . Suhrkamp, Fantastic Library, Frankfurt 1983, pp. 277–278
- Robert N. Bloch: Bibliography of utopia and fantasy 1650–1950 in the German language area . Achilla, Hamburg / Giessen / Friesland 2002, ISBN 3-928398-85-7 , p. 270
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert N. Bloch: Bibliography of utopia and fantasy 1650-1950 in the German language area . 2002, p. 270
- ^ Rein A. Zondergeld : Gallery of Fantastics . In: Lexicon of Fantastic Literature . Suhrkamp, Fantastic Library, Frankfurt 1983, p. 277
- ^ Rein A. Zondergeld: Honoré de Balzac . In: Lexicon of Fantastic Literature . Suhrkamp, Fantastic Library, Frankfurt 1983, p. 27