Literature year 1915

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Literature year 1915
Franz Kafka's story The Metamorphosis is published.	Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out .

Events

prose

February: The short story The Grammar of Love by Ivan Bunin appears in the Moscow almanac Klitsch .
March 26 : Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out ( The trip out ) appears. The work, which has strongly autobiographical traits, and whose publication was delayed by her husband Leonard for almost two years because of Virginia's depression , received a warm welcome from the critics, but sells poorly.
September 18 : The American Saturday Evening Post published the short story Extricating Young Gussie , with which PG Wodehouse first introduced its recurring fictional characters Bertie Wooster , whose valet Reginald Jeeves and Aunt Agatha .
October: The story The Lord from San Francisco by Iwan Bunin appears in the 5th volume of the Slovo anthology in Moscow.
Franz Kafka in 1912 resulting narrative The transformation is in the October issue of the journal The white sheets under the editorship of René Schickele published. The first edition in book form appears in December in the series The Youngest Day , edited by Kurt Wolff .

Waldemar Bonsels

The German writer Waldemar Bonsels publishes the book Himmelsvolk as the follow-up volume to his successful work Maya the Bee and Her Adventures . This book also achieved a large number of copies and was translated into several languages.

With the work Pointed Roofs ( The Shadows of the Gables ), the British writer Dorothy Richardson begins her novel cycle Pilgrimage ( pilgrimage ). In it she uses the narrative attitude of the inner monologue for the first time . To the literary critic May Sinclair introduced in the introduction of the book term stream of consciousness ( stream of consciousness ) reject, but he quickly finds its way into the modern narrative theory and soon the 1920 to probaten stylistic device of new experimental and psychological novel in the English fiction Years.

From Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , the amendment appears Rashōmon .

The utopian novel Herland by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman appears as a monthly series in a magazine.

Poetry

April 3rd / 4th : Before leaving for the Russian front, the German teacher Hans Leip wrote the first three stanzas of the song Lili Marleen along with a melody that has largely been forgotten today.

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae

May 3 : The Canadian John McCrae , whose friend Alexis Helmer died the day before, wrote In Flanders Fields, one of the most famous English-language poems on the First World War . It will be published in the satirical magazine Punch on December 8th .

By Georg Trakl posthumously appear Sebastian in Dream and Grodek .

Edward Marsh publishes the second anthology Georgian Poetry .

drama

Under the title Comedy of Words , three one-act plays by Arthur Schnitzler will be published in book form and will be premiered simultaneously on October 12, 1915 in three theaters in Vienna, Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main.

Periodicals

Two issues of the Portuguese-Brazilian literary magazine Orpheu appear with an extraordinary response in Portugal , which has to be discontinued afterwards.
September 10 : The first edition of the satirical magazine Le Canard enchaîné, founded by Maurice Maréchal, Jeanne Maréchal and Henri-Paul Deyvaux-Gassier, appears in France .

Awards

Romain Rolland 1915

The French writer and pacifist Romain Rolland received the Nobel Prize for Literature “as a tribute to the sublime idealism of his authorship and for the compassion and truth with which he depicts various types of people” .

Born

First half of the year

07 January : Erwin Wickert , German diplomat and writer († 2008 )
January 17 : Heinz Klemm , German journalist, editor and writer († 1970 )
January 20 : CW Ceram , German journalist and science author († 1972 )
January 25 : Viktor Reimann , Austrian journalist and politician († 1996 )
January 25 : Ewan MacColl , Scottish author, poet, actor, folk singer and record producer († 1989 )
January 28 : Elisabeth Frenzel , German literary scholar († 2014 )
January 29 : Bill Peet , American illustrator and story writer († 2002 )
January 29 : Halfdan Rasmussen , Danish poet († 2002 )

0February 2 : Khushwant Singh , Indian author and journalist († 2014 )
0February 5 : Margaret Millar , Canadian crime novelist († 1994 )
February 14 : Johannes Duft , Abbey Librarian in the Abbey Library of St. Gallen († 2003 )
February 16 : Elisabeth Eybers , South African-Dutch poet († 2007 )
February 23 : Noma Hiroshi , Japanese writer († 1991 )
February 23 : Heinrich Schirmbeck , German writer († 2005 )

March 10 : Jón Dan Jónsson , Icelandic writer († 2000 )
March 11 : Karl Krolow , German writer († 1999 )
March 12 : Jiří Mucha , Czech cosmopolitan, writer, publicist and screenwriter († 1991 )
March 13 : Melih Cevdet , Turkish writer († 2002 )
March 13 : Arthur Henkel , German Germanist and literary historian († 2005 )
March 16 : Haldun Taner , Turkish writer († 1986 )
March 29 : Denton Welch , English painter and writer († 1948 )
March 30 : Pietro Ingrao , Italian journalist and politician († 2015 )

0April 4 : Lars Ahlin , Swedish writer († 1997 )
0April 4 : Jan Drda , Czech prose writer and playwright († 1970 )
0April 7 : Henry Kuttner , American writer († 1958 )
0April 9 : Leonard Wibberley , Irish writer († 1983 )
April 10 : Leo Vroman , Dutch-American writer († 2014 )
April 12 : Friedrich Bolger , Russian-German poet, playwright and translator († 1988 )
April 13 : Stephan Hermlin , German writer († 1997 )
April 15 : Tista Murk , Swiss Rhaeto-Romanic. Writer and playwright († 1992 )
April 16 : Alfred Otto Schwede , German writer († 1987 )
April 23 : Christine Busta , Austrian poet († 1987 )
April 27 : Hovhannes Shiraz , Armenian poet († 1984 )
April 28 : Paul Blau , Austrian publicist († 2005 )

0May 6 : Orson Welles , American director, actor and writer († 1985 )
May 16 : Mario Monicelli , Italian screenwriter and film director († 2010 )
May 27 : Herman Wouk , American author († 2019 )
May 28 : Joaquín Piñeros Corpas , Colombian writer and politician († 1982 )
May 30th : Johannes D. Peters , German radio play author († 1986 )
May 31 : Judith Wright , Australian poet and writer († 2000 )
May 31 : Heinz Zahrnt , German Protestant theologian, writer and publicist († 2003 )

0June 7 : Geno Hartlaub , German writer († 2007 )
June 10 : Saul Bellow , American writer († 2005 )
June 24 : Fred Hoyle , British scientist and writer († 2001 )
June 25 : Salme Raatma , Estonian poet and children's book author († 2008 )
June 26 : Walter Farley , American writer († 1989 )

Second half of the year

0July 4th : Christine Lavant , Austrian artist and writer († 1973 )
July 18 : Karl Bednarik , Austrian painter and writer († 2001 )
July 18 : Philip Graham , American publisher († 1963 )
July 30 : Herbert Jobst , German writer († 1990 )

August 15 : Herbert Hupka , German journalist and politician († 2006 )
August 22 : José Antonio Zorrilla , Mexican composer, writer, screenwriter and director († 1985 )
August 24 : James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon), American science fiction writer († 1987 )
August 28 : Werner Ahrens , German journalist and diplomat

0September 5 : Astrid Hjertenæs Andersen , Norwegian writer († 1985 )
September 10 : Robert Sparr , American film director, film editor and screenwriter († 1969 )
September 12 : Elvira Bauer , German Nazi writer (missing since 1943)

0October 4 : Silvina Bullrich , Argentine writer († 1990 )
October 15 : Carl Szokoll , Austrian resistance fighter and author († 2004 )
October 17 : Arthur Miller , American writer († 2005 )
October 18 : František Daniel Merth , Catholic priest and poet († 1995 )
October 26 : Max Wegner , German writer († 1944 )
October 28 : Jürgen Thorwald , German writer († 2006 )

November 12 : Roland Barthes , French literary critic, writer, philosopher and semiotic († 1980 )
November 18 : Carlos Alberto Débole , Argentine poet († 1990 )
November 20 : Kon Ichikawa , Japanese film director, screenwriter († 2008 )
November 30th : Edith Anderson-Schröder , American journalist and writer († 1999 )
November 30 : Robert Lax , American author, poet and publicist († 2000 )

0December 7th : Leigh Brackett , American writer and screenwriter († 1978 )
0December 8 : Ernest Lehman , American screenwriter († 2005 )
December 13 : Ross Macdonald , American crime novelist († 1983 )
December 20 : Aziz Nesin , Turkish educator and writer († 1995 )
December 31 : Loys Masson , French writer († 1969 )

Died

January 13 : Gaston Arman de Caillavet , French playwright and librettist (* 1870 )
January 24 : Sophie Pataky , Austrian bibliographer (* 1860 )
January 26 : Akaki Tsereteli , Georgian writer and politician (* 1840 )

February 8 : Nagatsuka Takashi , Japanese writer (* 1879 )
February 22nd : Thor Lange , Danish writer and translator (* 1851 )

March 11 : Rolf Boldrewood , Australian author (* 1826 )
April 3 : Jizchok Leib Perez , Yiddish writer (* 1851 )
April 8 : Louis Pergaud , French writer (* 1882 )
April 12 : Domenico Gnoli , Italian writer, poet and translator (* 1838 )
April 23 : Rupert Brooke , British poet (* 1887 )
April 24th : Daniel Waruschan , Armenian writer (* 1884 )

after April 24th: Smbat Biurat , Armenian writer, poet and publisher (* 1862 )
after April 24: Eruchan , Armenian writer and journalist (* 1870 )
after April 24: Levon Larents , Armenian poet, journalist and teacher (* 1862 )
after April 24: Kegham Parseghian , Armenian writer and columnist (* 1883 )
after April 24th: Harutiun Schahrigian , Armenian writer, lawyer and politician (* 1883 )
after April 24th: Hagop Terzian , Armenian pharmacist and author (* 1862 )
after April 24: Krikor Torosyan , Armenian satirist, writer, journalist, caricaturist and publisher (* 1883 )
after April 24th: Dikran Tschögürjan , Armenian novelist, painter and publisher (* 1884 )

June 2 : Louis Tiercelin , French writer (* 1849 )
June 20 : Tlgadintsi , Armenian writer (* 1860 )
July 10 : Ernst Henrici , German high school teacher, writer and politician (* 1854 )
July 10 : Wascha-Pschawela , Georgian writer and natural philosopher (* 1861 )

August 2 : Krikor Zohrab , Armenian lawyer, writer and politician (* 1861 )
August 16 : Ardasches Harutünjan , Armenian literary critic, poet and translator (* 1873 )
August 16 : Rupen Zartarian , Armenian writer, poet and translator (* 1874 )
August 19 : Tevfik Fikret , Turkish poet (* 1867 )
August 25 : Amalie Marby , German writer (* 1834 )
August 26 : Rupen Sevag , Armenian poet, prose writer and doctor (* 1885 )
August: Siamanto , Armenian poet (* 1878 )

September 1 : August Stramm , German poet and playwright of German Expressionism (* 1874 )
September 6 : Paul d'Ivoi , French writer (* 1856 )
September 19 : David Friedrich Weinland , German zoologist and writer (* 1829 )

October 11 : Jean-Henri Fabre , French scientist and writer (* 1823 )
October 13 : Charles Sorley , British poet (* 1895 )
October 15 : Paul Scheerbart , German writer of fantastic literature and draftsman (* 1863 )
October 20 : Josef Ruederer , German writer (* 1861 )
October 20 : Diran Kelekian , Armenian journalist and translator (* 1862 )

November 21 : Johannes Trojan , German writer (* 1837 )
December 6 : Rudolf Lavant , German writer (* 1844 )

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