Der Sturm

The storm (1910-1932) was a first weekly, then bi-weekly, monthly magazine since 1915, most of Expressionism, which was published in Berlin by Herwarth Walden. In March 1912 Walden opened the storm - gallery in a demolition villa in the Berlin Tiergarten road with a traveling exhibition of the Blaue Reiter. Later it was located 134 A on Potsdamer Straße, where there is also the editor of the journal was The Tempest.

History

The storm was - together with the action of Franz Pfemfert - to the great avant-garde magazines that were established at the beginning of the 20th century and published.

On the occasion of the 1910 " rampant comet fever " was originally called The comet magazine.

The storm appeared for the first time on March 3, 1910 as a weekly magazine for culture and art. Publishers and editors was Herwarth Walden, who together with his first wife, Else Lasker-Schüler Katharinenstraße 5 lived at that time in Berlin- Wilmersdorf and worked. 1912 Walden married after his divorce from Lasker-Schüler the Swede Nell Roslund. In the years 1916 to 1926 Lothar Schreyer worked as an editor for Walden's magazine, which campaigned for the promotion of all avant-garde styles: Dadaism, Futurism, Expressionism and Cubism.

Among the literary staff included, among others, Peter Altenberg, Max Brod, Richard Dehmel, Alfred Doblin, Anatole France, Knut Hamsun, Arno Holz, Karl Kraus, Selma Lagerlof, Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Lichtenstein, Adolf Loos, Heinrich Mann, Otto Nebel, Paul Scheer beard, René Schickele. Around the magazine was formed the storm circle. In The Storm Publishing published expressionist dramas (including Hermann vinegar and August Stramm ), art portfolios ( Oskar Kokoschka ), artist monographs (Kandinsky album ) and art-theoretical writings of Herwarth Walden. Best-known publishing series were the storm - books (eg The Storm Books 1 and 2 were works August Stramm - Sancta Susanna and rudimentary ). In addition to books and art postcards were issued after the work of young, mostly still unknown artist: Franz Marc, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Kokoschka, August Macke, Carlo Mense, Gabriele Münter, Georg Schrimpf, Arnold Topp, Maria Uhden, Otto Nebel and others.

The term tower was designed by Herwarth Walden 's trademark, corporate identity, in the enforcement of modern art in Germany. There was also a storm stage (1918 ), a storm - gallery (1912 ) and the Storm evenings, where futuristic poetry was recited. European importance was the gallery by the First German Autumn Salon in 1913. Directed by Georg Muche At the storm 's Art School (1916 ), among others taught Oskar Kokoschka and Wassily Kandinsky and painting of the bridge and the Blue Rider. 1917, a storm bookstore was established.

Especially in the period before the outbreak of the First World War The Storm played a crucial role in the Franco- German exchange of the Expressionists. The special relationship between Berlin and Paris is to be observed. Regularly poems and texts by French or French -speaking expressionists were published ( Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, etc.). Given the hostilities between the two nations broke this exchange from the First World War, however, was the beginning of the 1920s, but much more modest, renewed.

In view of the Gathering of National Socialism left Walden in 1932 Germany and went to Moscow, where he worked as a teacher and publisher.

100 years after the opening of the Sturm gallery dedicated to her the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal in 2012 a memorial exhibition.

Concept

Herwarth Walden in 1910 in a brochure for new subscribers to its magazine:

" THE STORM is the journal of the independents. Culture and arts of today be critically evaluated. In this magazine come about only individuals who have their own thoughts and their own beliefs. Excluded is any kind of journalism and feuilletonism. The weekly THE STORM contains every issue essays on issues of art and culture. The productive art appears in novels, short stories and poems by significant contemporary authors. The controversy and criticism in word and line is offered to the widest space. "

Emphasis

1970 was published by Kraus, Nendeln ( Liechtenstein ) a Reprint of all published volumes.

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