Der Neue Merkur Collection 1919-1925

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Der Neue Merkur Collection 1919-1925

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The literary and political journal Der neue Merkur appeared in Germany between 1914 and 1925. This magazine is typical ofWeimar Germany, whose literary landscape was partially formed by literary and intellectual magazines. The authors of Der neue Merkur were a small but select group, who wrote more for prestigereason rather than pay. The journal was addressed to an intellectual elite and it had an immense appeal to Europe's most famous authors and public figures. The Neue Merkur Collection is basedupon the magazine's correspondence letters from 1919 to 1925. A sparkling group of steady contributors, including Europe's most prominent writers and thinkers, were writing for the journal.Their letters have been collected here. Among them were Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertold Brecht, Jakob Wassermann, Alfred Doeblin, Max Picard, André Gide and Martin Buber.

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Frisch, Efraim, 1873-1942

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Born in Stry, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine) on March 1, 1874, Efraim Frisch studied at the Universities of Vienna, Berlin, and Kiel, and settled in Berlin around 1900. He was a writer, dramatist, and journalist, and was editor of Der Neue Merkur from 1914 to 1925. Frisch emigrated to Switzerland in 1933 and died in Ascona, Switzerland, on November 29, 1942. From the guide to the Efraim Frisch Collection, 1904-1990, bulk 1935-1955, (Leo Baeck Institute) Efraim Fr...