Literature year 1898

Literature year 1898
The science fiction -novel The War of the Worlds ( The War of the Worlds ) by HG Wells published.	Sophie Pataky publishes the Lexicon of German Women in Feather together with her husband Carl .

Events

January-April: The novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James appears as a serial story in the weekly magazine Collier's with illustrations by Eric Pape . When he wrote the novella, Henry James was unable to write himself because of a wrist disease. He cannot deal with the new invention of the typewriter , so he has to rely on a secretary to whom he dictates the story.
The short story Die Kreuzhüttenbuben by Peter Rosegger appears in the October issue of the Graz Heimgarten .

The story Ewald Tragy by Rainer Maria Rilke will be written in the second half of the year.

The novel An old dispute by Wilhelmine von Hillern is published, which deals with the Haberfeld drift, which was still common in the Bavarian Oberland in the 1860s .

The science fiction -novel The War of the Worlds ( The War of the Worlds ) by HG Wells published.

The novel Raudsed käed ( Iron Hands ) by the Estonian writer Eduard Vilde appears as a sequel in the supplement of the Postimees newspaper .

February: The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol is published under the pseudonym C.3.3. published as the last work by Oscar Wilde during his lifetime. In it he processes his time in Reading Jail.

February 25 : The world premiere of the play Erdgeist by Frank Wedekind takes place in the Krystallpalast in Leipzig , with the author himself as Dr. Is beautiful on the stage.

The anniversary city theater at the time of opening

December 14th : The Vienna Volksoper opens as a spoken theater on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Franz Joseph I under the name Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater . The emperor stayed away from the opening because of the murder of his wife.

Sophie Pataky publishes the Lexicon of German Women in Feather together with her husband Carl .

0January 4 : Friedrich Lindemann , German writer and journalist († 1950 )
0January 7 : Sigmund Graff , German writer († 1979 )
January 13 : Kaj Munk , Danish pastor, poet, opponent of Hitler and martyr († 1944 )
January 15 : Martha Saalfeld , German poet († 1976 )

0February 7 : Kurt Kolle , German psychiatrist and author († 1975 )
0February 9 : Yagi Jūkichi , Japanese writer († 1927 )
February 10 : Bertolt Brecht , German playwright and poet († 1956 )
February 10 : Joseph Kessel , French journalist and writer († 1979 )
February 18 : Briton Hadden , American publisher († 1929 )
February 22 : Anton de Kom , Afro-American resistance fighter and author († 1945 )
February 26 : Konstantin Biebl , Czech poet († 1951 )

0April 3 : Henry Luce , American publisher († 1967 )
April 20 : Emmanuel Bove , French writer († 1945 )
April 20 : Benjamin Carrión , Ecuadorian writer († 1979 )
April 23 : Edwin Erich Dwinger , German writer († 1981 )
April 26 : Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and Nobel Prize for Literature († 1984 )

0June 2 : Herbert Paatz , German journalist and children's book author († 1944 )
0June 3 : Rosa Chacel , Spanish writer († 1994 )
0June 5 : Federico García Lorca , Spanish author († 1936 )
0June 9 : Curzio Malaparte , Italian writer and journalist († 1957 )

June 12 : Ludwig Friedrich Barthel , German narrator and essayist († 1962 )
June 12 : Mikhail Jefimowitsch Kolzow , Soviet columnist and journalist († 1940 )
June 22nd : Erich Maria Remarque , German author († 1970 )
June 26 : Ernst Nebhut , German writer, librettist and screenwriter († 1974 )
June 27 : Alja Rachmanowa , Russian writer († 1991 )

July 22 : Stephen Vincent Benét , American writer († 1943 )
0August 3 : Herbert Behrens-Hangeler , German painter, graphic artist and writer († 1981 )
0August 5 : Gustav Canaval , Austrian journalist († 1959 )
August 15 : Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet, author and translator († 1966 )
August 20 : Vilhelm Moberg , Swedish writer († 1973 )
August 24 : Malcolm Cowley , American writer, poet and literary critic († 1989 )
August 29 : Preston Sturges , American screenwriter and director († 1959 )

0September 1 : Friedrich Georg Jünger , German poet, narrator and essayist († 1977 )
0September 4th : Rodolfo Moleiro , Venezuelan poet († 1970 )
September 10 : Manfred Hausmann , German writer († 1986 )
September 15 : Philippe Hériat , French writer († 1971 )
September 18 : Paul Vialar , French writer († 1996 )

0October 3 : Leo McCarey , American director, film producer and screenwriter († 1969 )
0October 5 : Ervin Šinko , Hungarian writer and professor († 1967 )
October 17 : Simon Vestdijk , Dutch writer († 1971 )
October 22 : William Quindt , German journalist and writer († 1969 )
October 28 : František Běhounek , Czech physicist and writer († 1973 )

November 18 : Poul F. Joensen , Faroese poet († 1970 )
November 29 : Clive Staples Lewis , British writer and literary scholar († 1963 )

January 14th : Lewis Carroll , British writer, mathematician and photographer (* 1832 )
March 12 : Zacharias Topelius , Finnish-Swedish poet and writer (* 1818 )
March 16 : Aubrey Beardsley , British poet, draftsman, graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator (* 1872 )
March 20 : Karl August Tavaststjerna , Finnish writer (* 1860 )
March 23 : Hans Wachenhusen , German writer (* 1823 )
May 22 : Edward Bellamy , American SF author (* 1850 )

Theodor Fontane's grave in Berlin

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