Literature year 1911

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Literature year 1911
Alfred Lichtenstein writes the expressionist poem The Twilight .
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Events

prose

June 4 : Arthur Schnitzler publishes the story The Murderer in the Neue Freie Presse .
September 9th : Arthur Schnitzler's story Die Hirtenflöte appears in the literary magazine Die neue Rundschau in Berlin.
October: The Diary of Redegonde of Arthur Schnitzler is in the Süddeutsche Monatshefte published in Munich.

Original edition

GK Chesterton publishes its first collection of short stories: The Innocence of Father Brown .
With The New Machiavelli , HG Wells publishes his first novel of ideas and problems , in which the plot is subordinate to the sociological and ideological message.
By Arnold Zweig , the narrative appears records of a family knocker .
Stefan Zweig publishes the anthology First Experience - Four Stories from Kinderland in Insel-Verlag , which includes the novella Burning Secret .

Edgar Wallace published his first two novels Africa Sanders of the River ( Sanders from current ) and The People of the River ( The natives from the mains ).

Ambrose Bierce published The Devil's Dictionary ( The Devil's Dictionary ), a collection of satirical aphorisms .

From Leo Tolstoy posthumously in 1890 resulting narrative appear father Sergei and 1906 resulting short story Father Vasily , the 1890 completed novel The Devil , the unfinished story The fake coupon , the narrative An idyll from 1862 and the children's story all the same from August 1910.

drama

Die Ratten , cover of the first edition

Jan. 13 : At the Berlin Lessing Theater is Gerhart Hauptmann's late naturalism associated tragicomedy The rats premiered.
February 15 : The premiere of the comedy Die Hose by Carl Sternheim triggers a scandal. The caustic ridicule against the German philistine ultimately even led to the play being temporarily banned.
April 19 : The by George Bernard Shaw published anonymously comedy Fanny's First Play has the Adelphi Theater in London its first performance .
May 22nd : The world premiere of Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien ( The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian ), a "Mystery in Five Acts" by Gabriele D'Annunzio , at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris turns into a scandal. The Archbishop of Paris, Léon-Adolphe Amette , forbids all Catholics to attend the performances because of the representation of the saint by a scantily clad Jewish and Russian woman, Ida Rubinstein . As a result, all of D'Annunzio's pieces were placed on the index librorum prohibitorum . The audience reacts snubbed or bored because of the five-hour duration of the piece, which is only about an hour of music by Claude Debussy .
October 14 : The tragicomedy The vast land of Arthur Schnitzler will be premiered at several stages in Germany. Following the performance at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Schnitzler was called in front of the curtain 24 times by the audience, according to his own entry in his diary, and was celebrated by critics and audiences in several places in the following weeks.

Leopoldine Konstantin in favor, Berlin 1912

December 1st : Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann , based on the model of late medieval mystery games , is premiered in the Berlin Schumann Circus under the direction of Max Reinhardt . The stage design for the premiere is by Ernst Stern .

December 23rd : The Miracle , the most important play by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller, has its world premiere in London.

Poetry

Jakob van Hoddis

January 11th : The expressionist poem End of the World by Jakob van Hoddis is published in the Berlin magazine Der Demokratie .

March 18 : Alfred Lichtenstein's poem The Twilight appears in the expressionist magazine Der Sturm . In October it will also be printed in the Simplicissimus .

By Else Lasker-Schüler collection of poems appear My miracle .

Periodicals

February 20 : The first issue of the magazine Die Aktion , magazine for liberal politics and literature by Franz Pfemfert appears.

Awards ceremonies

Maurice Maeterlinck

The French-speaking Belgian writer and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck receives “due to his versatile literary effectiveness, especially his dramatic creations, which are characterized by a wealth of imagination and a poetic idealism, which, sometimes in the veiled form of fairy tales, reveals deep inspiration and in a mysterious way Addresses the reader's feeling and intuition ” , the Nobel Prize for Literature .

Scientific literature

Ernest Rutherford is in the spring in his article The Scattering of α and β Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom in the Philosophical Magazine , the Rutherford model of the atom before.
Gustav Landauer's essays The Abolition of War through the Self-Determination of the People. Questions to the German workers and calls for socialism appear.

Born

First half of the year

January 14 : Anatoly Rybakov , Russian writer († 1998 )
January 18 : José María Arguedas , Peruvian writer († 1969 )
January 22 : Mary Hayley Bell , British actress and playwright († 2005 )
January 23 : Anna Maria Jokl , Austrian-Israeli writer, psychotherapist († 2001 )
January 24th : CL Moore , American science fiction and fantasy author († 1987 )

February 5 : Nakamura Mitsuo , Japanese writer and literary critic († 1988 )
February 8 : Elizabeth Bishop , American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner († 1979 )
February 12 : Hans Habe , German journalist, writer and screenwriter († 1977 )
February 14 : Gerhard Schumann , German writer († 1995 )
February 20 : Hans Scholz , German writer, journalist and painter († 1988 )

March 7th : Stefan Kisielewski , Polish composer and writer († 1991 )
March 9 : Raymond Abrashkin , American writer, screenwriter and director († 1960 )
March 11 : Pericle Patocchi , Swiss writer and teacher († 1968 )
March 13 : L. Ron Hubbard , science fiction writer and founder of Scientology († 1986 )
March 21 : Hans Nicklisch , German writer and translator († 2001 )
March 26 : John Langshaw Austin , English philosopher and linguist († 1960 )
March 26 : Tennessee Williams , American writer († 1983 )
March 28 : William Sears , American author († 1992 )

April 4 : Václav Čtvrtek , Czech writer († 1976 )
April 7 : Hervé Bazin , French writer († 1996 )
April 8 : Emil Cioran , Romanian philosopher († 1995 )
April 25 : Robert Jan Verbelen , Flemish writer († 1990 )
April 30 : Luise Rinser , German writer († 2002 )

May 2 : Mirso Tursunsoda , Tajik poet († 1977 )
May 4 : Walter Adamson , German-Australian writer († 2010 )
May 15 : Max Frisch , Swiss architect and writer († 1991 )
May 20 : Annie MG Schmidt , Dutch writer († 1995 )
May 28 : Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian writer († 1986 )

June 6 : Jean Cayrol , French author and publisher († 2005 )
June 12 : Milovan Đilas , Yugoslav politician, writer and dissident († 1995 )
June 14 : Herbert Fritsche , German poet († 1960 )
June 17 : Viktor Nekrasov , Soviet war writer († 1987 )
June 20 : Paul Pietsch , German racing driver and publisher († 2012 )
June 21 : Hanna Malewska , Polish writer († 1983 )
June 23 : David Ogilvy , British copywriter († 1999 )
June 24 : Ernesto Sabato , Argentine writer and physicist († 2011 )
June 30 : Czesław Miłosz , Polish writer († 2004 )

Second half of the year

July 7 : Ernst Klett , German publisher († 1998 )
July 9 : Mervyn Peake , British writer, illustrator († 1968 )
July 12 : Bogdan Ostromęcki , Polish poet, essayist and translator († 1979 )
July 17 : Yang Jiang , Chinese writer, playwright, essayist and translator († 2016 )
July 21 : Marshall McLuhan , media theorist, media critic and publicist († 1980 )
July 29 : Eduard Claudius , German writer and diplomat of the GDR († 1976 )
August 24 : Friedrich Luft , German theater critic († 1990 )
September 1 : Jean-Georges Lossier , Swiss poet († 2004 )
September 3 : Ernst Meister , German poet, radio play author, narrator and playwright († 1979 )
September 9 : Paul Goodman , American social philosopher and poet († 1972 )
September 15 : Emil Botta , Romanian actor and poet († 1977 )
September 19 : William Golding , British writer († 1993 )
October 2 : Jack Finney , American writer († 1995 )
October 5 : Flann O'Brien , Irish writer († 1966 )
October 12 : Bruno Liebrucks , German philosopher († 1986 )
October 13 : Migjeni , Albanian poet († 1938 )
October 19 : Hilde Spiel , Austrian journalist and writer († 1990 )
November 1 : Henri Troyat , French writer († 2007 )
November 2 : Henry Cassirer , American journalist and writer († 2004 )
November 2 : Paul Carell , German Nazi functionary, author († 1997 )
November 2 : Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet († 1996 )
November 25 : Kurt Lütgen , German writer († 1992 )
December 8 : Kin Platt , American writer († 2003 )
December 11 : Nagib Mahfuz , Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize winner († 2006 )
December 13 : Fritz Kalmar , Austrian author and stage artist († 2008 )
December 13 : Kenneth Patchen , American writer († 1972 )
December 29 : Marcel Prawy , Austrian dramaturge and opera critic († 2003 )

Died

January 12 : Franz Eugen Schlachter , classical philologist and translator of the Schlachter Bible (* 1859 )
February 8 : Gustaf Fröding , Swedish poet (* 1860 )
February 9 : Bernhard Ludwig Suphan , German literary scholar (* 1845 )
February 11 : Emil Jacobsen , German chemist and writer (* 1836 )
February 16 : Agnes Günther , German writer (* 1863 )
February 25 : Friedrich Spielhagen , German writer (* 1829 )
February 26 : Ludwig Gottsleben , Austrian actor and writer (* 1836 )
April 1 : Martin Greif , German poet (* 1839 )
April 25 : Emilio Salgari , Italian writer (* 1862 )
May 1 : Richard Weitbrecht , German theologian and writer (* 1851 )
June 10 : Adolf von Wilbrandt , German writer and director of the Burgtheater in Vienna (* 1837 )
June 14 : Fedor Flinzer , German illustrator, educator and author (* 1832 )
July 12 : Júlia da Costa , Brazilian poet (* 1844 )

Joseph Pulitzer

October 29 : Joseph Pulitzer , American journalist and editor, founder of the Pulitzer Prize (* 1847 )
November 24th : Wilhelm Jensen , German writer (* 1837 )

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