Časopis Der Mensch (1918) v poli moravského expresionismu
| Title in English | Literary Journal Der Mensch (1918) in the Field of Moravian Expressionism |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Description | On a virtual timeline of reflection and reproduction of expressionism in Brno, the cultural and literary monthly Der Mensch, appearing from January to December 1918 in German and edited by Leo Reiss and Johannes Urzidil, preceded both the Literary Group and the Host magazine. Although Der Mensch did not explicitly declare itself as expressionist, or as modern or “young”, its editorial concept – best indicated by its name, The Man – carried markedly expressionist elements, as evidenced by the selection of texts by expressionist authors Johannes Urzidil, Yvan Goll, or Ernst Weiss. Der Mensch was published in German, but it was programmatically cosmopolitan (essay by Guido Glück “Weltbürgertum”, i.d. “Cosmopolitanism”) and adopted the modernist production in Czech (Březina, Macek, Čapek, Bezruč, etc.). Due to this cultural internationalism, and due to the fact that one of the editors (Reiss) focused rather on Austrian modernist literature, while the other one (Urzidil) operated much rather in variations of expressionism cultivated in Germany (and partially in Prague too), Der Mensch evolved into a magazine that on the one hand was remarkably diffuse with regard to aesthetics, but on the other was even more remarkably stringent with regard to its topics and its ethics. |