Literature year 1933

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Further events

Literature year 1933
After the “ seizure of power ” there were organized book burnings all over Germany .
88 writers publish a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler.	The first issue of the news magazine News-Week appears in New York.

Events

Events in Germany

• May 10 : The National Socialists burn 20,000 books by unpopular authors on Opernplatz in Berlin . Book burns also occur in 21 other German university cities . ( List of books burned in 1933 )
• October 26 : 88 writers publish a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in the Vossische Zeitung . The text is also printed in other newspapers such as the Frankfurter Zeitung .

prose

• January to September: Isaac Bashevis Singer publishes his novel Satan in Goraj in sequels in the Polish literary magazine Globus , which Singer publishes together with his friend Aaron Zeitlin.
• April: The novel Miss Lonelyhearts is published by Nathanael West .
• September: Agatha Christie publishes her 13th detective novel, Lord Edgware Dies , in which Hercule Poirot , Arthur Hastings and Inspector Japp investigate.
• September: HG Wells publishes the “post-historical” science fiction novel The Shape of Things to Come .
• October: The first volume of the tetralogy Joseph and his brothers is published by Thomas Mann with The Stories of Jaakobs .
• November: Franz Werfel publishes the historical novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh .
• December 23 : Right Ho, Jeeves ( Then do not, Jeeves ), the second novel by PG Wodehouse with the protagonist Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves , first appears as a serial story in the Saturday Evening Post

• Erich Kästner publishes the youth novel The flying classroom .
• Dorothy L. Sayers publishes mystery novel Murder Must Advertise ( murder needs publicity ).
• George Orwell writes the early account of Down and Out in Paris and London .
• Georges Simenon publishes the novel Tropenkoller .
• The short story collection Winner Take Nothing is published by Ernest Hemingway .

drama

• March 5th: Federico García Lorca's tragedy Blood Wedding ( Bodas de sangre ) premieres in Madrid.

essay

• From Jun'ichirō Tanizaki the long essay appears Praise of Shadows .

Autobiography

• By Vera Brittain appears Testament of Youth , the first volume of several (auto) biographical writings.

Translations

Karl Kraus publishes his adaptation of Shakespeare's sonnets , which he wrote in response to the translation by Stefan George .

Periodicals

• February 17 : The first issue of News-Week appears in New York.
• December 12th : German-language exile press (1933–1945) : The exile newspaper Pariser Tageblatt appears for the first time. The editor-in-chief is Georg Bernhard , his deputy Kurt Caro . The newspaper appears daily with a length of four pages.

Scientific and religious works

• June 3 : In the encyclical Dilectissima nobis , Pope Pius XI laments . the church persecution in Spain.
• December 1 : In the socio-historical and sociological work Casa-grande e senzala , German as mansion and slave hut , Gilberto Freyre founds “lusotropicalism” and conveys the idea of ​​Brazilian “racial democracy”.

• Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow founded the modern probability theory with his treatise Basic Concepts of the Calculus of Probability .

Awards ceremonies

• Ivan Alexejewitsch Bunin , who lives in France as a stateless person , receives the Nobel Prize for Literature “for the strict artistry with which he represents the classical Russian line in prose poetry” .

Born

First half of the year

• 0January 1 : Joe Orton , British playwright († 1967 )
• 0January 3 : Maxie Wander , German photographer, journalist, screenwriter and writer († 1977 )
• 0January 6th : Emil Steinberger , Swiss cabaret artist, writer, director and actor
• 0January 8 : Juan Marsé , Spanish writer († 2020 )
• 0January 9 : Wilbur A. Smith , British writer
• January 13 : Ron Goulart , American writer
• January 16 : Susan Sontag , American writer, essayist and publicist († 2004 )
• January 18 : John Boorman , British director, screenwriter, producer

• 0February 1 : Reynolds Price , American writer and literary scholar († 2011 )
• February 14 : Corsino Fortes , Cape Verdean poet († 2015 )
• February 14 : Robert Shea , American writer († 1994 )
• February 18 : Vincenzo Consolo , Italian writer († 2012 )
• February 18 : Gerhard Frey , German publisher and politician († 2013 )
• February 21 : Gordon Thomas , British journalist and writer († 2017 )
• February 22nd : Christopher Ondaatje , British-Canadian writer and entrepreneur
• February 27 : Edward Lucie-Smith , Jamaican-British poet, journalist and art historian

• 0March 3 : Víctor Manuel Leites , Uruguayan playwright († 2016 )
• March 17th : Bruno Horst Bull , German writer
• March 19 : Philip Roth , American writer († 2018 )
• March 20 : Paul Kárpáti , German-Hungarian translator († 2017 )
• March 22nd : Eveline Hasler , Swiss writer
• March 22 : Erik Tohvri , Estonian writer († 2020 )
• March 24th : Eckart Cordes , German bookseller and literary broker
• March 26th : Tinto Brass , Italian director, producer and screenwriter

• 0April 2 : György Konrád , Hungarian writer († 2019 )
• April 21 : Helge Hagerup , Norwegian writer, poet and playwright († 2008 )
• April 29th : Rod McKuen , American singer-songwriter, poet and composer († 2015 )

• May 17 : Jean Vautrin , French writer and screenwriter († 2015 )
• May 21 : Olga Savary , Brazilian poet, narrator and translator († 2020 )
• May 23 : Ceija Stojka , Austrian writer and artist († 2013 )
• May 30th : Sergio Citti , Italian film director, screenwriter and actor († 2005 )

• 0June 2 : Horacio Ferrer , Uruguayan poet and writer († 2014 )
• 0June 4 : Lisandro Otero , Cuban writer († 2008 )
• 0June 8 : John R. Harrison , American journalist
• June 14 : Jerzy Kosiński , American author († 1991 )

Second half of the year

• 0July 9 : Arnfrid Astel , German poet († 2018 )
• 0July 9 : Oliver Sacks , American neurologist and author of popular science books († 2015 )
• July 13 : David Storey , British novelist and playwright († 2017 )
• July 18 : Alicia Steimberg , Argentine writer and translator
• July 20 : Cormac McCarthy , American novelist
• July 21 : John Gardner , American writer and translator († 1982 )
• July 21 : Brigitte Reimann , German writer († 1973 )
• July 30th : Irene Ruttmann , German writer
• July 31 : Cees Nooteboom , Dutch writer

• 0August 2nd : Michel del Castillo , French writer of Spanish origin
• 0August 3 : Philippe Bonzon , Swiss writer
• August 16 : Reiner Kunze , German writer
• August 22 : Irmtraud Morgner , German writer († 1990 )
• August 26th : Rainer Erler , German author, director and film producer
• August 27 : Kerstin Ekman , Swedish writer
• August 27 : Nancy Friday , American author († 2017 )

• 0September 8 : Michael Frayn , British writer
• September 19 : Ingrid Jonker , South African poet († 1965 )
• September 20 : Mitsuo Hama , Japanese writer and children's book author
• September 22 : Jesco von Puttkamer , German scientist and book author († 2012 )
• September 23 : Hiber Conteris , Uruguayan writer, playwright, essayist and critic († 2020 )
• September 24 : Geneviève Dormann , French writer († 2015 )

• 0October 6 : Louis Begley , American writer
• 0October 6 : Horst Bingel , German writer, poet and graphic artist († 2008 )
• October 12 : Klaus Frühauf , German science fiction author († 2005 )
• October 24 : Jun'ichi Watanabe , Japanese writer († 2014 )

• 0November 1st : Huub Oosterhuis , Dutch theologian and poet
• 0November 4 : Volker Kühn , German director and author († 2015 )
• 0November 9 : Lucian Pintilie , Romanian director, actor and screenwriter († 2018 )
• November 11th : Jerzy Grotowski , Polish director and theater theorist († 1999 )
• November 13 : Peter Härtling , German writer († 2017 )
• November 15 : Theodore Roszak , American writer († 2011 )
• November 20 : Per Wästberg , Swedish writer
• November 23 : Kurt Falk , newspaper editor († 2005 )

• December 18 : Laura Mancinelli , Italian mediaevalist, writer and translator († 2016 )
• December 26 : Joe Rosenblatt , Canadian poet, writer and painter († 2019 )
• December 27 : Karl Sewart , German writer († 2019 )
• December 28 : Charles Portis , American writer († 2020 )
• December 28 : Franz Rutzen , German publisher

Exact date of birth unknown

• Barbara Antkowiak , German Slavist, literary translator and editor († 2004 )
• Isawa Taka , Japanese writer († 1997 )
• Miriam Tlali , South African writer († 2017 )

Died

• January 31 : John Galsworthy , British writer (* 1867 )
• March 10 : Manfred Kyber , German writer (* 1880 )
• March 30 : Georg Steinhausen , German librarian and cultural scientist (* 1866 )
• April 5 : Earl Derr Biggers , American writer (* 1884 )
• April 19 : Adolf Stoltze , German journalist and local poet (* 1842 )
• May 13 : Paul Ernst , German writer and playwright (* 1866 )
• May 16 : John Henry Mackay , Scottish-German writer (* 1864 )
• May 19 : Rudolf Tarnow , Low German writer (* 1867 )
• June 29 : Olaf Bull , Norwegian poet (* 1883 )
• August 7th : Felix Fechenbach , German journalist (* 1894 )
• August 7th : Hans Fraungruber , Austrian writer (* 1863 )
• August 31 : Theodor Lessing , German philosopher (* 1872 )
• September 8 : Theodor Fritsch , German publicist (* 1852 )
• October 18 : Albert von Trentini , Austrian writer (* 1878 )
• November 12th : Fred Holland Day , American photographer and publisher (* 1864 )
• December 4 : Stefan George , German poet and writer (* 1868 )
• December 16 : Everett Ellsworth Truette , American organist, composer, music publisher and author (* 1861 )
• December 26th : Meinrad Lienert , Swiss dialect and native poet (* 1865 )

Web links

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