Literature year 1913

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Literature year 1913
The Deutsche Bücherei begins its statutory work.

Events

Libraries and publishing

• July 1 : Karl May's widow, universal heir and estate administrator Klara May , May's previous main publisher Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld and the jurist Euchar Albrecht Schmid as managing director found the publishing house of the Karl May Foundation Fehsenfeld & Co around a year after the writer's death in Radebeul . , which from 1915 bears the name of Karl May Verlag (KMV). They manage to settle all ongoing legal disputes and acquire the rights to works published by other publishers. The existing series of Collected Travel Stories will be expanded to include revisions of these texts and renamed Karl May's Collected Works .

The Deutsche Bücherei , founded in the previous year and the predecessor of the German National Library, collects all German and foreign language literature published in Germany as well as foreign literature in German from 1913 onwards. The library is a reference library that is available to everyone; the titles are listed in a national bibliography. The Deutsche Bücherei thus fulfills the function of a national library . The library is based in Leipzig.

The Bibliotheca Hertziana is founded in Rome as the Max Planck Institute for Art History under the direction of the art historian Ernst Steinmann . The institute resides in Palazzo Zuccari , which the patron of the arts Henriette Hertz bequeathed to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society , the predecessor of the Max Planck Society, together with a library of 5,000 volumes .

Periodicals

Book cover of the first edition

• Beginning of the year: Kurt Wolff , Franz Werfel and Max Brod start publishing the series of brochures, The Youngest Day . One of the first published works (vol. 3) is the story Der Heizer by Franz Kafka. In July, a collection of lyrical works by the Austrian expressionist and symbolist poet Georg Trakl will be published under the title Gedichte (Vol. 7/8).
• November 24th : Ullstein Verlag buys the Vossische Zeitung, which was previously family-owned, for five and a half million marks .

New releases

prose

• February to April: Arthur Schnitzler publishes the story Ms. Beate and her son in the literary magazine Die neue Rundschau in Berlin.
• On November 13 appears Du côté de chez Swann as the first volume of the novel plant A la recherche du temps perdu by Grasset on Proust's own expense, after the novel by the publishers, u. a. by André Gide , the editor at the Gallimard publishing house at the time , was rejected.
• Stefan Zweig publishes his novella Burning Secret for the first time as a single edition.

Arkadia from 1913, in which The Judgment first appeared

• Franz Kafka published the short story The Judgment , written in September of the previous year .
• DH Lawrence published the novel Sons and Lovers ( Sons and Lovers ). The work initially received only indifferent reviews and was reviled as "obscene".
• Lyman Frank Baum publishes the children's book The Patchwork Girl of Oz ( Dorothy and the Patchwork Girl ), another novel from the Wizard of Oz series.

Poetry

• April: Guillaume Apollinaire publishes an anthology of the best of his lyrical works to date. Alcool's work met with predominantly negative criticism, mainly because the poet deleted all punctuation from the poems. Apollinaire, who had hoped for a breakthrough from the volume, responded with aggressive formulations in literary and art theoretical articles. The counterattacks provoke him to duel demands, which however remain unrealized.

• Gottfried Benn : Sons , a cycle of poems
• Max Brod : The height of feeling , poetry
• Else Lasker-Schüler : Hebrew ballads , collection of poems

drama

• May 13 : The Festival in German Rhymes by Gerhart Hauptmann , staged by Max Reinhardt , premieres in the Jahrhunderthalle in Wroclaw . The festival to mark the centenary of the wars of freedom against Napoleon causes a scandal with its criticism of the war. After protests by war veterans' associations and on the intervention of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hohenzollern , the play will be canceled on June 18 after eleven of the 15 planned performances .
• October 16 : George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion , written in the previous year, has its world premiere at the Hofburgtheater in Vienna in the German translation by Siegfried Trebitsch Sprach . Directed by Hugo Thimig play Max Paulsen and Lili Marberg the leading roles. The drama caused a scandal because it used swear words excessively for the circumstances at the time . On November 1 the premiere takes place at the Berlin Lessing Theater with Tilla Durieux and Albert Steinrück .
• November 8th : At the persistent suggestion of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the premiere of the drama fragment Woyzeck by Georg Büchner takes place in the Munich Residenztheater , around 80 years after its creation. The sets and costumes were created by Alfred Roller . Albert Steinrück plays the Woyzeck . The work has influenced artists, directors, painters, musicians and filmmakers around the world.

• Carl Sternberg begins work on the 1913 play , the third part of the trilogy Aus dem Deutschen Heldenleben .

Scientific literature

Natural sciences

Electron arrangement of barium according to Bohr's atomic model

• Niels Bohr postulates his atomic model with the quantization of the atomic radii .
• William Henry Bragg publishes the reflection condition named after him for X-ray interference in solids .
• Kasimir Fajans and Frederick Soddy set up the radioactive displacement theorems .
• Henry Moseley sets up the law named after him for the characteristic radiation of the elements, taking into account Bohr's atomic model .

psychology

Original paperback of the first printing

• Sigmund Freud publishes Totem and Tabu , in which he deals with the prohibition of incest .
• December 13 : Karl Jaspers submits his textbook on general psychopathology as a habilitation thesis to Wilhelm Windelband at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg and does his habilitation in psychology.

Essays

• Max Brod : About the beauty of ugly pictures. A vademecum for romantics of our time. Collection of essays
• Alfred Döblin : To novelists and their critics. Berlin program

Awards ceremonies

Rabindranath Tagore

• Nobel Prize : The Indian Rabindranath Tagore receives the Nobel Prize for Literature “because of the deep and high relationship as well as the beauty and freshness of his poetry, which in a brilliant way incorporates his poetic work in his peculiar English garb of the beautiful literature of the West” . He is the first Asian award winner.

• Prix ​​Femina : Camille Marbo for La Statue voilée
• Theodor Fontane Prize for Art and Literature : Annette Kolb
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Marc Elder for the novel Le Peuple de la mer

Others

Front view of the statue

• 23 August : The bronze statue The Little Mermaid by Edvard Eriksen , referring to HC Andersen's fairy tale character , is installed in the port of Copenhagen .

• The American Academy in Rome is founded in Rome .
• The Deutsche Akademie Rome Villa Massimo is donated to the Prussian state by Eduard Arnhold .

Born

First half of the year

• January 1 : Ara Masahito , Japanese literary scholar and critic († 1979 )
• January 19 : Irma Petzold-Heinz , German writer († 1991 )
• January 24th : Wolf von Niebelschütz , German writer and historian († 1960 )
• January 28 : Ernst Cramer , German journalist, board member of the Axel Springer Foundation († 2010 )
• January 31 : Gustav Sichelschmidt , German writer († 1996 )
• February 4 : Birgitta Wolf , Swedish publicist († 2009 )
• February 17th : René Leibowitz , French composer, conductor, writer and music teacher († 1972 )
• February 18 : Devery Freeman , American screenwriter († 2005 )
• February 20 : Rolf Italiaander , German writer and art collector († 1991 )
• February 22 : Hugh Garner , Canadian writer († 1979 )
• February 26 : Hermann Lenz , German writer († 1998 )
• February 27 : Irwin Shaw , American writer. († 1984 )
• March 5 : Karl Ewald Böhm , German writer and head of the GDR censorship authority († 1977 )
• March 8 : Mouloud Feraoun , Algerian writer († 1962 )
• March 13 : Ema Shōko , Japanese poet and librettist († 2005 )
• March 13 : Sergei Michalkow , Russian writer († 2009 )
• March 18 : Ishida Hakyō , Japanese poet († 1969 )
• March 19 : Günter Neumann , German composer, author and cabaret artist († 1972 )
• March 21 : Werner Höfer , German journalist († 1997 )
• March 23 : Piero Chiara , Italian writer († 1986 )
• April 10 : Stefan Heym , German writer († 2001 )
• April 15 : Hans Egon Holthusen , German poet († 1997 )
• April 15 : Manfred Schmidt , German comic artist and humorous travel writer († 1999 )
• April 17 : Miss Read , English writer († 2012 )
• April 18 : Werner Steinberg , German writer († 1992 )
• April 21 : Norbert Frýd , Czech writer and publicist († 1976 )
• April 28 : Yang Shuo , Chinese poet and essayist († 1968 )
• May 7 : Kurt Kauter , German writer († 2002 )
• May 11 : Robert Jungk , Austrian publicist, journalist and futurologist († 1994 )
• May 13 : Helmut Weiß , German writer († 2000 )
• May 18 : Charles Trenet , French singer, composer, poet and painter († 2001 )
• May 24th : Roland Kohlsaat , German comic artist, illustrator and author († 1978 )
• May 26 : Pierre Daninos , French journalist and writer († 2005 )
• June 2 : Barbara Pym , British writer († 1980 )
• June 17 : Felix Hartlaub , German writer († 1945 )
• June 20 : Laure Wyss , Swiss writer († 2002 )
• June 25 : Wilhelm Sandfuchs , German church journalist († 1999 )
• June 26 : Aimé Césaire , Afro-Caribbean-French poet, writer and politician († 2008 )
• June 28 : Franz Antel , Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter († 2007 )

Second half of the year

• July 5 : Hanuš Bonn , Czech poet, literary critic and translator († 1941 )
• July 11 : Paul Linebarger , American psychologist and writer († 1966 )
• July 17 : Roger Garaudy , French writer, philosopher and former communist († 2012 )
• August 1 : Furusawa Taiho , Japanese haiku poet († 2000 )
• August 4th : Noboru Nakamura , Japanese director and screenwriter († 1981 )
• August 11 : Angus Wilson , British writer († 1991 )
• August 20 : Karl Heinz Robrahn , German Catholic poet († 1987 )
• August 21 : Viktor Rosow , Russian playwright († 2004 )
• August 26 : Boris Pahor , Slovenian writer
• September 2 : Agnes-Marie Grisebach , German writer († 2011 )
• September 17 : Mira Lobe , Austrian children's book author († 1995 )
• September 26 : Ernst Schnabel , German writer († 1986 )
• September 28th : Edith Pargeter , English crime novelist († 1995 )
• September 29 : Ramón de Garciasol , Spanish writer († 1994 )
• October 6 : Meret Oppenheim , Swiss surrealist artist and poet († 1985 )
• October 9 : Karl Waldemar Schütz , German publisher and editor († 1999 )
• October 10 : Claude Simon , French writer († 2005 )
• October 19 : Vinícius de Moraes , Brazilian poet († 1980 )
• October 25 : Ruth Dirx , German author († 1994 )
• November 2 : Alexander Borell , author of numerous entertainment and serial novels († 1998 )
• November 3 : Albert Cossery , Egyptian Francophone writer († 2008 )
• November 7th : Albert Camus , French writer and member of the Resistance († 1960 )
• November 15 : Guy Green , British cameraman, director and screenwriter († 2005 )
• November 15 : Arthur Haulot , Belgian journalist, humanist and poet († 2005 )
• November 21 : Volker von Collande , German actor, screenwriter and director († 1990 )
• November 21 : Gretl Zottmann , German writer and poet († 1975 )
• November 24 : Muriel Gantry , British novelist († 2000 )
• November 26 : Gordon A. Craig , American historian and writer († 2005 )
• December 9 : Fritz Graßhoff , German painter, draftsman, writer and songwriter († 1997 )
• December 18 : Alfred Bester , American science fiction author († 1987 )
• December 18 : Ćamil Sijarić , Bosnian-Yugoslav writer († 1989 )
• December 22nd : Rudolf Krämer-Badoni , German writer († 1989 )
• December 25th : Henri Nannen , German publisher and publicist († 1996 )

Died

• January 2 : Julius Euting , German orientalist and librarian (* 1839 )
• February 17 : Joaquin Miller , American writer (* 1839 )
• March 13 : Thomas Peter Krag , Norwegian writer (* 1868 )
• April 29 : Erich Schmidt , German literary historian (* 1853 )
• May 12 : Friedrich Huch , German poet and writer (* 1873 )
• May 15 : Adolf Wahrmund , German orientalist and writer (* 1827 )
• June 4th : Léon Deubel , French poet (* 1879 )
• June 13 : Henri Rochefort , French journalist and writer (* 1830 )
• July 8 : Louis Hémon , French writer (* 1880 )
• August 1st : Lessja Ukrainka , Ukrainian poet, dramaturge and translator (* 1871 )
• August 3 : Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger , German educator and textbook author (* 1849 )
• August 7th : Josef Ohrwalder , Austrian missionary and author (* 1856 )
• August 8 : Hermann Harry Schmitz , German office clerk and author of grotesque stories and one-act plays as well as essayist (* 1880 )
• October 14 : Norbert Hanrieder , Austrian dialect poet and priest (* 1842 )
• October 25 : Frederick Rolfe , British writer (* 1860 )
• December 1 : Juhan Liiv , Estonian poet and narrator (* 1864 )

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