List of literary works relating to the First World War

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The list of literary works on the First World War shows works of literature in the narrower sense (i.e. no specialist literature ) that have the First World War as their theme or are significantly influenced by it.

Novels, short stories, essays

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… There's a reunion, cover of the first edition of the war diary by Jo Mihaly (Elfriede Kuhr)

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Nothing new in the west , novel by Erich Maria Remarque , published in 1929.

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Dominik Richert : Best Opportunity to Die , autobiographical records from the war, published posthumously in 1989.

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Poetry

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  • Richard Aldington
    • Trench idyll
    • In the trenches
  • Guillaume Apollinaire
    • Les calligrammes. Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre (1913–1917) , 1918.
  • René Arcos
    • Le sang des autres , Genève: Kundig, 1918

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  • Heinz Elmann
    • The corpse field . War verses 1915-1918. Steinklopfer-Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1957.
  • Gerrit Engelke
    • Rhythm of the new Europe . 1921.

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  • Stefan George
    • The war . 1917.
    • A young leader in the First World War . 1921.
  • Ivan Goll
    • Requiem . For the fallen of Europe. 1917.
  • Robert Graves
    • Recalling War
    • Over the Brazier (poetry book)
    • Fairies and Fusiliers (poetry book)
  • Ivor Gurney
    • Severn and Somme (poetry collection, 1917)
    • War's Embers (collection of poems, 1919)
    • Strange Hells
    • To His Love
    • The Silent One
    • Butchers and Tombs
    • Strange service
    • Bach and Sentry
    • Pain
    • De Profundis
    • Photographs
    • To the Prussians of England

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  • Wilfred Owen
    • Dulce et Decorum est , written in 1917, first published in 1920.
    • Anthem for Doomed Youth
    • Smile, smile, smile
    • Insensibility
    • The dead beat
    • Greater love
    • Futility
    • Disabled
    • The show
    • Arms and the Boy
    • The send-off
    • The Sentry
    • Strange meeting
    • Exposure
    • Spring offensive
    • Conscious
    • Apologia per Poemate Meo
    • Wild with all Regrets
    • the end

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  • Kurt Pinthus
    • (Ed. :) Menschheitsdämmerung, symphony of recent poetry . 1920.

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  • Siegfried Sassoon
    • Died of Wounds
    • The Hero
    • Counter attack
    • Attack
    • How to Die
    • Lamentations
    • Does it matter?
    • Suicide in the Trenches
    • Glory of Women
    • Banishment
    • The Death Bed
    • Enemies
    • The Redeemer
    • Repression of War Experience
    • Stretcher case
    • Trench Duty
    • A working party
  • René Schickele
    • First August 1914
    • solution
  • Charles Sorley
    • When you see millions of mouthless dead
    • Two Sonnets
  • Jon Stallworthy (Ed.)
    • The war poems of Wilfred Owen. Chatto & Windus, London 1994.
  • Ernst Stadler
    • The departure , 1914 (collection of poems).
  • August Stramm 1915 (published posthumously in 1919).
    • Wake up
    • Battlefield
    • wound
    • destruction
    • The heavens are blowing
    • Death of value
    • signal
    • Assault
    • Eve
    • Like
    • Frostfire
    • Watch
    • war
    • shrapnel
    • Baptism of fire
    • attack
    • Engine war
    • Eve
    • patrol
    • Utter death
    • Scream
    • Haidekampf
    • question
    • Dreamy
    • Grenades
    • Hesitation
    • War grave
    • Battle hall
    • guard

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  • Josef Winckler
    • In the middle of the world war . 1915.
    • Ocean . 1917.
    • God's maze. 1922.

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Dramas

comics

The French comic artist Jacques Tardi deals with the First World War in several of his works. He focuses on the horrors and experiences of the common soldiers in the trenches.

Memories, memoirs, autobiographies

Web links

Literature (sources)

  • Kindler's Literature Lexicon , 8 volumes, Zweiburgen Verlag, Weinheim 1981.
  • Helmut Kreuzer , Ingrid Kreuzer (Ed.): German poems between 1918 and 1933 . Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009711-8 .
  • Penguin Books (Ed.): Poems of the Great War: 1914-1918 . Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-14-118103-5 .
  • Guillaume Picon (éd.): Poèmes de poilus. Anthologie de poèmes français, anglais, allemands, italiens, russes 1914–1918 . Points, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-7578-4164-8 .
  • Harry Rickets: Strange Meetings - The Poets of the Great War . Chatto & Windus, London, 2010. ISBN 978-0-7011-7271-8 .
  • Kurt Rothmann: Small history of German literature . Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010707-2 .
  • Thomas F. Schneider, Hans Wagener (Ed.): From Richthofen to Remarque. German-language prose on World War I (= Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies, Volume 53). Rodopi, Amsterdam 2003.
  • Ralf Schnell : History of German Poetry. Volume 5: From the turn of the century to the end of World War II . Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-018892-7 .
  • Matthias Steinbach (Ed.): Mobilization 1914. A literary echo sounder . Reclam, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-15-020287-6 .
  • Bernhard Wenzl: idealists and pacifists. , Wiener Zeitung November 1, 2014.
  • Jean Moorcroft Wilson: Isaac Rosenberg: A New Life: The Making of a Great War Poet. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008, ISBN 978-0-297-85145-5 .
  • Isaac Rosenberg, Jean Liddiard: Selected Poems and Letters. Enitharmon Press, 2004, ISBN 1-900564-89-0 .
  • Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen: Poets of World War I: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Chelsea House Publishers, 2002, ISBN 0-7910-5932-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. www.poetryfoundation.org