Hyperion (magazine)

Hyperion was one of Franz Blei and Carl Sternheim in Munich, edited and moved by Hans von Weber bi-monthly literary magazine, published from 1908-1910 twelve books in ten issues.

Content

The short-lived magazine Hyperion was an expensively produced book. For the very modern graphic design Walter Tiemann was responsible. A large part of the edition was printed on English vellum; the books were elaborately bound and illustrated, and did not contain rarely art and music accompaniments. The connoisseurship lead and a sense Sternheim also made ​​sure that in the magazine not only excellent texts by famous authors appeared, but also first releases still unknown. The first eight prose of Kafka published here, including the trees, dresses, Rejection, The Merchant, Airborne addition Gaze, The Way Home, The Runners- and the passenger.

The following quote from Kafka's obituary for the journal in which his first writings were published, the profile of the booklet outlines very precisely:

Artists and Authors

• Max Mayrhofer
• Erich Heckel
• Aristide Maillol
• Auguste Rodin

Authors

• Rudolf Borchardt
• Max Brod
• Hans Carossa
• Carl Einstein
• Emil von Gebsattel
• André Gide
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Franz Kafka
• Heinrich Mann
• George Meredith
• Robert Musil
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• René Schickele
• Carl Sternheim