Neue Rundschau

History

The theater critic Otto Brahm and the publisher Samuel Fischer founded the magazine in 1890 as Freie Bühne für modernes Leben (Free Stage for Modern Life).{{cite book|author=Margot Goeller|title=Hüter der Kultur: Bildungsbürgerlichkeit in den Kulturzeitschriften"Deutsche Rundschau" und "Neue Rundschau"(1890-1914)

From 1894 to 1922, Oskar Bie was the editor. In 1904 he succeeded in renaming it Die neue Rundschau. The magazine became one of the most important forums for modern literature and essay writing in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Due to the link to the S. Fischer-Verlag, the publisher's major writers were able to publish their works in first prints. Alfred Kerr and Robert Musil were among the reviewers. From 1919 to 1921, Alfred Döblin wrote for the magazine under the pen-name Linke Poot ("Left Paw").{{cite book

Bie was succeeded by Rudolf Kayser and in 1932 by Peter Suhrkamp.{{cite book|author=Harold James|title=The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property

Neue Rundschau is based in Berlin and is published on a quarterly basis.{{cite book|title=Western Europe 2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M9QYndAPmuQC&pg=PA294|date=30 November 2002|publisher=Psychology Press

Content

Each issue of the quarterly has a thematic focus, to which writers, scientists and philosophers contribute. Furthermore, national and international writers are discussed, also the translations of literary texts.

First prints of literature

The magazine published several first works of literature; authors included Rainer Maria Rilke and Arthur Schnitzler. Thomas Mann's short story "Der kleine Herr Friedemann" was published in 1896. The 1904 title shows Gerhart Hauptmann's "Das Hirtenlied", Wilhelm Boelsche's "Zukunft der Menschheit", the novel Kreuzungen by Emil Strauß, Ellen Key's "Über Liebe und Ehe", Mann's "Ein Glück", Alfred Kerr's "Neue Schauspielkunst" and Richard Dehmel's "Der kleine Held". Hermann Hesse's "Kinderseele" was first printed in 1919. Musil wanted to publish Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" in 1914 which was considered too long, but Kafka's story "A Hunger Artist" appeared in 1922.

References

Literature

• {{cite book|title=Freie Bühne für modernes Leben|date=January 1890 – February 1891|publisher=S. Fischer
• {{citation|author=Wolfgang Grothe|editor=Historische Kommission des Börsenvereins des Deutschen Buchhandels
• {{citation|author=Wilhelm Bölsche|editor=Gerd-Hermann Susen|title=Briefwechsel. Mit Autoren der Freien Bühne |volume=Werke und Briefe. Wissenschaftliche Ausgabe. Werke. Briefe I|publisher=Weidler|publication-place=Berlin

References

1. (2013). "The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880-1940". Oxford University Press.
2. Richard T. Gray. (2005). "A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia". Greenwood Publishing Group.