Literature year 1904

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Literature year 1904
The partly autobiographical adventure novel The Sea Wolf becomes Jack London's greatest success.	James Joyce begins work on his Dubliners story cycle .

Events

prose

Hermann Hesse's first novel, Peter Camenzind, is published in Berlin.
The novel Mattia Pascal is published by Luigi Pirandello .

The partly autobiographical adventure novel The Sea Wolf ( The Sea Wolf ), in New York laid, is Jack London's greatest success.

The story Das Gold is published by Peter Rosegger .

James Joyce began work on his Dubliners cycle of stories in Paris , which was not published until 1914 .

drama

January 30th : The world premiere of the drama The Cherry Orchard by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov takes place on the author's 44th birthday at the Moscow Art Theater . It is his last play, six months later, on July 15th, the playwright dies.
February 1st : The world premiere of Pandora's Box takes place in front of an invited audience in the Intimate Theater in Nuremberg. After Erdgeist, the play is the second part of the Lulu tragedy by Frank Wedekind . The premiere, which Wedekind only agreed to after a long period of hesitation and revising the piece, turned into a theatrical scandal . An intervention by the police prevents a second performance planned for the following day. On March 29, there will be a one-time, closed performance in the Munich Schauspielhaus, which has received largely negative press coverage. On July 23, the Munich public prosecutor brought charges against Wedekind and his publisher Bruno Cassirer for distributing indecent writings.
February 13 : The play The lonely path of Arthur Schnitzler will be premiered in Berlin.
December 27th : The play Peter Pan , or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by the Scottish playwright JM Barrie has its world premiere in London with great success.

Non-fiction

November: The first part of the essay The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber appears in the Archive for Social Science and Social Policy .

Prices

The French Frédéric Mistral and the Spaniard José Echegaray receive the Nobel Prize in Literature .
Léon Frapié receives the Prix Goncourt for La maternelle

Others

The 16th June 1904 of Bloomsday , the day on which the action of James Joyce's novel Ulysses plays.

Born

January to April

January 4th : Erhard Quack , German hymn poet and composer († 1983 )
January 7th : Ruth Landshoff , German-American actress and writer († 1966 )
January 15 : Ludvík Frejka , Czech politician and publicist († 1952 )
January 22 : Arkadi Petrovich Gaidar , Russian writer for young people († 1941 )

February 1 : Gerhard Wartenberg , German author († 1942 )
February 4 : MacKinlay Kantor , American writer († 1977 )
February 10 : John Farrow , Australian screenwriter and director († 1963 )
February 10 : Tito Colliander , Finnish-Swedish writer († 1989 )
February 13 : Karaki Junzō , Japanese literary scholar († 1980 )
February 18 : Otto Rahn , German writer († 1939 )
February 23 : Leopold Trepper , Polish communist, resistance fighter and publicist († 1982 )
February 27 : Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss clergyman and writer († 1984 )
February 27 : James T. Farrell , American writer († 1979 )

March 2 : Theodor Seuss Geisel , American children's book author and cartoonist († 1991 )
March 3 : El Duque del Morteruelo , Spanish poet († 2004 )
March 12 : Bodo Uhse , German writer († 1963 )
March 13 : Erhart Kästner , German writer and librarian († 1974 )
March 13 : Paul Mattick , German communist and political writer († 1981 )
March 17 : Patrick Hamilton , English writer († 1962 )
March 26 : Joseph Campbell , American professor and author († 1987 )

April 6 : Willy Harzheim , German working-class writer and communist († 1937 )
April 9 : Ludwig Hohl , Swiss author († 1980 )
April 13 : Martha Weber , German homeland poet († 1998 )
April 27 : Cecil Day-Lewis , writer and poet († 1972 )

May to August

May 6 : Harry Martinson , Swedish writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature († 1978 )
May 10 : Kuwabara Takeo , Japanese literary scholar and translator († 1988 )
May 20 : Margery Allingham , English crime novelist († 1966 )
May 20 : Nagai Tatsuo , Japanese writer († 1990 )
May 24 : Sefton Delmer , British journalist († 1979 )

June 19 : Claus Back , German writer († 1969 )
June 24 : Kurt Kusenberg , German art critic and writer († 1983 )
June 30 : Oskar Paulini , German writer († 1980 )

July 3 : Otto Gotsche , German politician and writer († 1985 )
July 12 : Pablo Neruda , Chilean poet and diplomat († 1973 )
July 14 : Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld , German diplomat and author († 1999 )
July 22 : Karl Veken , German writer († 1971 )
July 22nd : Otto Rombach , German journalist and writer († 1984 )
July 22nd : Walther G. Oschilewski , German publicist, poet and cultural historian († 1987 )
July 24 : Delmer Daves , American screenwriter and director († 1977 )

August 3 : Clifford D. Simak , American SF author († 1988 )
August 4th : Witold Gombrowicz , Polish writer († 1969 )
August 10 : Albert Skira , Swiss publisher († 1973 )
August 26 : Christopher Isherwood , English-American writer († 1986 )

September to December

September 11 : Kurt Karl Doberer , German engineer, journalist, writer and philatelist († 1993 )
September 12 : Joe Lederer , Austrian journalist and writer († 1987 )
September 16 : Alfred Klahr , Austrian communist and journalist († 1944 )
September 18 : Dolores Viesèr , Austrian writer and narrator († 2002 )
September 25 : Ernst Zwilling , Austrian travel writer († 1990 )
September 27 : Edvard Kocbek , Slovenian writer and publicist († 1981 )
September 29 : Nikolai Alexejewitsch Ostrowski , Soviet writer and revolutionary († 1936 )

October 2 : Graham Greene , British writer († 1991 )
October 5 : Harald Lechenperg , German-Austrian photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker († 1994 )
October 6 : Horst Lange , German writer († 1971 )
October 7 : Günther Schwab , Austrian writer († 2006 )
October 12 : Ding Ling , Chinese writer († 1986 )
October 13 : Jutta Hecker , German writer († 2002 )
October 15 : Wolfgang Weyrauch , German writer and radio play author († 1980 )
October 20 : Mario von Galli , Jesuit, theological editor and publicist († 1987 )
October 21 : Edmond Hamilton , American author († 1977 )
October 24 : Madeleine Delbrêl , French writer († 1964 )
October 24 : Theodor Eschenburg , political scientist, journalist and constitutional lawyer († 1999 )
October 24 : Moss Hart , American writer († 1961 )

November 13 : Günter Reimann , German economist and journalist († 2005 )
November 25 : Ba Jin , Chinese writer († 2005 )
November 27 : Klara Blum , German-Chinese writer († 1971 )
November 28 : Nancy Mitford , English writer and biographer († 1973 )

December 6 : Alexander Ivanovich Vwedensky , Russian poet († 1941 )
December 6 : Eve Curie , writer and advisor to the Secretary General of NATO († 2007 )
December 25 : Funabashi Seiichi , Japanese novelist († 1976 )
December 26 : Alejo Carpentier , French-Cuban writer († 1980 )
December 28 : Hori Tatsuo , Japanese writer († 1953 )

Died

January 28 : Karl Emil Franzos , Austrian novelist, publicist, novelist and editor (* 1848 )

February 7th : Emil Rosenow , German politician and writer (* 1871 )
February 23 : Friederike Kempner , German-speaking poet (* 1836 )

May 7 : Peter Hille , German writer (* 1854 )
May 10 : Henry Morton Stanley , Scottish journalist and Africa explorer (* 1841 )

June 5 : Sami Frashëri , Albanian man of letters (* 1850 )
June 7th : Otto von Heinemann , German librarian and historian (* 1824 )
June 10 : Carl Weitbrecht , German poet and literary historian (* 1847 )
June 25 : Wilhelm Jordan , German writer (* 1819 )

July 3 : Theodor Herzl , Austrian writer and politician (* 1860 )
July 6 : Abai Qunanbajuly , Kazakh poet, writer and thinker (* 1845 )
July 15 : Anton Chekhov , Russian writer and playwright (* 1860 )
July 17 : Wilhelm Marr , German political journalist (* 1819 )
July 25 : Marie von Najmájer , Austrian writer (* 1844 )

August 22 : Kate Chopin , American writer (* 1850 )

October 4th : Adela Florence Nicolson , English poet (* 1865 )
October 4 : Karl Tanera , German officer and writer (* 1849 )
October 7th : Isabella Bishop , British travel writer (* 1832 )
October 21 : Isabelle Eberhardt , Russian-Swiss explorer and travel writer (* 1877 )

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