Literature year 1910

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Literature year 1910
The expressionist avant-garde newspaper Der Sturm by Herwarth Walden appears for the first time.
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Events

prose

Gaston Leroux

January 8th : The last part of the serial novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra ( The Phantom of the Opera ) written by Gaston Leroux appears in the newspaper Le Gaulois .

Cover image of the Sascha Schneider edition of Winnetou IV from 1910

Karl May's last completed novel Winnetou IV appears. The author processes his trip to America in 1908 and at the same time puts an end to the adventures of Old Shatterhand in North America.

Rainer Maria Rilke completes his only novel The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge in Leipzig , which he began in Rome in 1904. The work consists of 72 notes, which often resemble prose poems and mostly follow one another unconnected, and is always called a “prose book” and never a “novel” by Rilke himself.

Hermann Bahr publishes the novel O Mensch .

The novel Gertrud by Hermann Hesse appears in its final version.

The Fool in Christo Emanuel Quint , Gerhart Hauptmann's first novel, is published in Berlin.

Thomas Mann starts working on his novel Confessions of the Con man Felix Krull .

The short stories Songs in the Village and Grateful Soil as well as the story Three Days in the Country are published by Lev Tolstoy .

Lyman Frank Baum publishes the children's book The Emerald City to Oz ( Dorothy in the Emerald City ), another novel from the Wizard of Oz series.

Poetry

The poetry collections Palmström and Einkehr by Christian Morgenstern are published in Berlin by Bruno Cassirer's publishing house .
The song collection Gitanjali ( song offerings ) appears alongside other works by Rabindranath Tagore in Calcutta . In 1913 she became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature .
Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen wrote the ballad from the nettle bush .

drama

September 10 : The premiere of the Bauernschwank First Class by Ludwig Thoma takes place in Munich.
November 24th : The play The Young Medardus by Arthur Schnitzler has its world premiere under the direction of Hugo Thimig at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
December 17th : The world premiere of the naturalistic drama Faith and Home by Karl Schönherr takes place in Vienna.

Autobiography

December: My Life and Striving by Karl May appears.

Periodicals

March 3 : The expressionist magazine Der Sturm, a weekly for culture and art , published by Herwarth Walden , appears for the first time.

The literary magazine Hyperion by Carl Sternberg and Franz Blei ceases to appear after two years.

Scientific works

The German doctor Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transvestism .

Awards ceremonies

The German Paul Heyse received the Nobel Prize for Literature “as a tribute to the perfected and ideally conceptualized artistry that he exhibited during a long and significant activity as a poet, playwright, novelist and poet of world-famous short stories” .

Born

First half of the year

January 1 : Haniya Yutaka , Japanese writer († 1997 )
January 31 : Nomi Rubel , German-Jewish writer († 1996 )
February 3 : Jack Belden , American war correspondent and writer († 1989 )
February 4 : Uys Krige , South African poet, writer and translator († 1987 )
February 7th : Max Bense , German philosopher, writer and publicist († 1990 )
February 21 : Jacques Decour , French writer and translator († 1942 )
March 5 : Ennio Flaiano , Italian writer († 1972 )
March 13 : Kemal Tahir , Turkish writer and translator († 1973 )
March 15 : To Rutgers , Dutch writer († 1990 )
March 17 : Karl Hans Bergmann , German publicist († 2007 )
April 2 : Theodor Siers , German chess problem composer and author († 1991 )
April 5 : Effi Biedrzynski , German editor, Goethe researcher and journalist († 2004 )
April 10 : Paul Sweezy , American economist and author († 2004 )
April 20 : Jan Dobraczyński , Polish writer and politician († 1994 )
April 26 : Mehmed Meša Selimović , Bosnian writer († 1982 )
May 3 : Norman Corwin , American author († 2011 )
May 5 : Leo Lionni , Italian graphic artist, painter and author († 1999 )
May 11 : John Paddy Carstairs , British writer, film director and screenwriter († 1970 )
May 23 : Artie Shaw , American jazz musician and writer († 2004 )
May 24 : Marģeris Zariņš , Latvian composer and writer († 1993 )
May 28 : Lorenzo Calogero , Italian poet († 1961 )
May 30 : Georg K. Glaser , German-French writer († 1995 )
June 7 : Monika Mann , German writer († 1992 )
June 8 : María Luisa Bombal , Chilean writer († 1980 )
June 8 : John W. Campbell , American science fiction writer († 1971 )
June 13 : Gonzalo Torrente Ballester , Spanish writer († 1999 )
June 20 : Lloyd Arthur Eshbach , American SF writer and editor († 2003 )
June 23 : Jean Anouilh , French writer († 1987 )
June 23 : Annemarie Böll , German translator († 2004 )
June 26 : Lau Lauritzen jr. , Danish actor, film director and screenwriter († 1977 )
June 28 : Erich Kuby , German journalist and writer († 2005 )

Second half of the year

July 2 : Hans Günther Adler , Austrian writer († 1988 )
July 2 : CC Bergius , German writer († 1996 )
July 22 : Richard Plant , German-American writer († 1998 )
July 27 : Julien Gracq , French writer († 2007 )
July 27 : Rajzel Zychlinski , Yiddish poet († 2001 )

August 9 : Robert van Gulik , Dutch crime novelist († 1967 )
August 25 : Dorothea Tanning , American painter, sculptor and writer († 2012 )
August 30 : Pierre Vago , French architect, editor and general secretary of the UIA († 2002 )

September 1 : Walter Hasenclever , German-American author and literary translator († 1992 )
September 11th : Manuel Mujica Láinez , Argentine writer and journalist († 1984 )
September 12 : Erich Brehm , German cabaret writer and conductor († 1966 )
September 17 : František Hrubín , Czech writer and poet († 1971 )
September 19 : Curt Meyer-Clason , German writer and translator († 2012 )

October 4 : Adolf Branald , Czech writer († 2008 )
October 4 : Guðmundur Daníelsson , Icelandic writer († 1990 )
October 5 : Wolf Strache , German photographer, photo journalist and publisher († 2001 )
October 8 : Winston Hibler , American screenwriter, film producer and director as well as actor and voiceover († 1976 )
October 9 : Eckart Hachfeld , German writer, copywriter and screenwriter († 1994 )
October 22 : Maurice Zermatten , Swiss writer († 2001 )
October 24 : Gunter d'Alquen , journalist in the Third Reich († 1998 )
October 26 : Eva Hoffmann-Aleith , German pastor, teacher and writer († 2002 )