1913 in literature

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  • 2.1 First half of
  • 2.2 Second half of
  • 2.3 Exact date of birth unknown

Events

  • August 23: In the harbor of Copenhagen, the relative participating on HC Andersen's fairy tale figure bronze statue is set up The Little Mermaid by Edvard Eriksen.
  • In Rome, American Academy in Rome is founded.
  • The German Academy Rome Villa Massimo is sponsored by Eduard Arnhold the Prussian state.

Libraries

Founded in the previous year German Library, the predecessor of the German National Library collects from 1913 the entire published in Germany and German -speaking foreign literature and foreign literature in German language. The library is a reference library which everyone is available, the titles are listed in a national bibliography. The German library fulfills the function of a national library. Seat of the library is Leipzig.

In Rome, the Bibliotheca Hertziana is founded as the Max Planck Institute for Art History, under the direction of art historian Ernst Steinmann. The Institute is housed in the Palazzo Zuccari, the patron of contemporary art, Henriette Hertz had together with a library of 5000 volumes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, the predecessor of the Max Planck Society, bequeathed.

Periodicals

  • November 24: The Ullstein buys previously owned by the family Vossische newspaper for five and a half million marks.
  • Kurt Wolff, Franz Werfel and Max Brod begin with the publication of the brochure series Judgement Day. One of the first published works is the story The heater of Franz Kafka.

New releases

Prose

  • February-April: Arthur Schnitzler published the story Mrs. Beate and her son in the literary journal The new Rundschau in Berlin.
  • On November 13, you will côté de chez Swann first volume of the novel A la recherche du temps plant perdu Grasset on Proust's own expense after the novel by the publishers, including has been rejected by André Gide, who was then an editor in the publishing house Gallimard.
  • Stefan Zweig published his novella Burning Secret for the first time as a single issue.
  • Franz Kafka published that arose in the September of the previous story The Judgement.
  • DH Lawrence wrote the novel Sons and Lovers.

Poetry

  • Gottfried Benn: sons, a poem cycle
  • Max Brod: The amount of emotion, poetry
  • Else Lasker-Schüler: Hebrew ballads, poetry collection

Drama

  • Carl Sternberg begins to work on the play in 1913, the third part of the trilogy from the German heroic life.

Scientific literature

Natural sciences
  • Niels Bohr postulated its nuclear model with the quantization of atomic radii.
  • William Henry Bragg released the eponymous reflection condition for X-ray interference in solids.
  • Kasimir Fajans and Frederick Soddy put to the radioactive displacement laws.
  • Henry Moseley is named after him at law for the characteristic radiation of the elements with the involvement of the Bohr model of the atom.
Psychology
  • Sigmund Freud published the writing Totem and Taboo, in which he deals with the prohibition of incest.
  • December 13: Karl Jaspers enough at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg under Wilhelm diaper band, his textbook on general psychopathology as habilitation thesis and habilitation in psychology.

Essays

  • Max Brod: About the beauty of ugly pictures. A Vademecum for romantics of our time. Collection of essays

Awards

  • Nobel Prize: The Indian Rabindranath Tagore receives " due to the low and high relationship as well as the beauty and freshness of his poems, which incorporated a brilliant way his poetic creation in its peculiar English garb of polite literature of the West" the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the first Asian winners.
  • Voilée Camille Marbo for La Statue: Prix Femina
  • Theodor Fontane Prize for Art and Literature: Annette Kolb
  • Prix ​​Goncourt: Marc Elder for the novel Le Peuple de la mer

Born

First half year

  • January 24: Wolf of Niebelschütz, German writer and historian († 1960)
  • JANUARY 28: Ernst Cramer, German publicist, CEO of Axel Springer Foundation († 2010)
  • January 31: Gustav sickle Schmidt, German writer († 1996)
  • FEBRUARY 4: Birgitta Wolf, Swedish journalist († 2009)
  • FEBRUARY 17: René Leibowitz, a French composer, conductor, writer and music educator († 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 Bohm, German writer and director of the censorship authority of the GDR ( † 1977)
  • March 8: Mouloud Feraoun, Algerian writer († 1963)
  • MARCH 13: Sergei Mikhalkov, Russian writer († 2009)
  • MARCH 18: Ishida Hakyō, Japanese poet († 1969)
  • MARCH 19: Günter Neumann, German composer, author and comedian († 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 Fryd, Czech writer and journalist († 1976)
  • APRIL 28: Yang Shuo, Chinese poet and essayist († 1968)
  • May 7: Kurt cautery, German writer († 2002)
  • MAY 11: Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist, journalist and futurist († 1994)
  • MAY 13: Helmut Weiss, German writer († 2000)
  • MAY 18: Charles Trenet, French singer, composer, poet and painter († 2001)
  • MAY 24: 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)
  • 20 June: Laure Wyss, Swiss writer († 2002)
  • June 25: William Sandfuchs, German journalist Church († 1999)
  • June 26: Aimé Césaire, afrokaribisch - French poet, writer and politician († 2008)
  • 28 June: Franz Antel, Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter († 2007)

Second half- year

  • July 5th: Hanus Bonn, Czech poet, literary critic and translator († 1941)
  • July 11: Paul Linebarger, American psychologist and writer († 1966)
  • JULY 17: Roger Garaudy, a French writer, philosopher and former communist
  • August 1: Furusawa Taiho Japanese haiku poet († 2000)
  • August 4: Noboru Nakamura, Japanese film director and screenwriter († 1981)
  • 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 28: 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 and guitarist († 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)
  • NOV 7: Albert Camus, French author and member of the Resistance († 1960)
  • November 15: Guy Green, a 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 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 pop lyricist († 1997)
  • December 18: Alfred Bester, American science fiction author († 1987)
  • December 22: Rudolf Krämer- Badoni, German writer († 1989)
  • December 25: Henri Nannen, German publisher and publicist ( † 1996)

Exact date of birth unknown

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 literature historian (* 1853)
  • MAY 12: Friedrich Huch, German poet and writer (* 1873)
  • MAY 15: Adolf true mouth, German orientalist and writer (* 1827)
  • June 4: Léon Deubel, French poet (* 1879)
  • JUNE 13: Henri Rochefort, a French journalist and writer (* 1830)
  • July 8: Louis Hémon, French writer (* 1880)
  • August 1: Lesya Ukrainka, Ukrainian poet, dramaturge and translator (* 1871)
  • August 3: Friedrich Wilhelm Putzger, German educator and textbook author (* 1849)
  • August 8: Josef Ohrwalder, Austrian missionary and author (* 1856)
  • August 8: Harry Hermann Schmitz, German office administrator and author of short stories and one-act plays grotesque and essayist (* 1880)
  • October 14: Norbert Hanrieder, Austrian dialect poet and priest (* 1842)
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