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The Collection - Literary Monthly Journal was one of Klaus Mann in the Dutch Querido Verlag ( Amsterdam) published exile magazine. It published a total of twenty-four editions from September 1933 to August 1935.

Among the announced in the first issue cooperating authors were also those who are still published in Germany, including Alfred Doblin, René Schickele, Stefan Zweig and especially Klaus 's father, Thomas Mann. Although had existed in some of these authors in the development of the journal, the impression that the collection should not be a daily political forum of cultural and critique of fascism, but let the first number of political attitude and orientation no more doubts. Klaus Mann wrote in the preface:

The Nazi authorities now put pressure on these authors and their publishers. Whether, some authors have responded to this pressure, or due to the now but political attitude of the sheet with statements of disassociation, is controversial. Stefan Zweig, for example, expressed his surprise expression that it was " not a purely literary, but a largely political journal " the principal in the collection. A similar attitude was echoed Thomas Mann.

Because of dwindling subscriber numbers ( the remote edition was dropped from the beginning of 2000 to 400 ) had to be discontinued The collection in August 1935, although Klaus Mann worked for months without pay and the Journal of Annemarie Schwarzenbach was financially supported.

Employees of the collection were, among others:

André Gide, Aldous Huxley and Heinrich Mann supported beyond The collection for which they had taken over the patronage, with their reputation.

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