''Der Orchideengarten'' ('The Orchids-garden'; subtitled ''Phantastische Blätter'' or 'Fantastic Pages') was a German magazine that was published for 51 issues from January 1919 until November 1921.Halbert W. Hall, ''Science/fiction collections: fantasy, supernatural & weird tales''. Routledge, 1983, p. 89.
History and profile
Founded four years before the American magazine ''
Weird Tales
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'' was initiated in March 1923, ''Der Orchideengarten'' is considered to be the first fantasy magazine. Also described as largely 'supernatural horror', it was edited by
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correspondent and freelance writer
Karl Hans Strobl
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Life
Strobl grew up in Morav ...
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Alfons von Czibulka
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, published by Dreiländerverlag. It had 24 pages per issue printed on rough book paper.
The magazine included a wide selection of new and reprinted stories by both German-language and foreign writers. The main source
of the translated material ''Der Orchideengarteen'' published was French literature; ''Der Orchideengarten''
published works by such authors as
Voltaire
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Charles Nodier
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Guy de Maupassant
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Théophile Gautier
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Victor Hugo
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Franz Rottensteiner Franz Rottensteiner (born 18 January 1942) is an Austrian publisher and critic in the fields of science fiction and speculative fiction in general.
Biography
Rottensteiner was born in Waidmannsfeld, Lower Austria.
He studied journalism, Englis ...
, ''The Fantasy Book: An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien''. Collier Books, 1978, (pp. 82–83).
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
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''Studien zur philosophie und literatur des neunzehnten jahrhunderts'', Volume 1 Klostermann, 1968 (pp. 210–13). and
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the ...
.A short story, "Cox-City!" from Apollinaire's book ''L'Hérèsiarque et Cie'' appeared in the 15 February 1919 issue; the author's
name was given as "Apollinarius, Wileem". See Willard Bohn, ''Apollinaire and the international avant-garde'', SUNY Press, 1997, (pp. 115, 329). Other noted writers such as
Apuleius
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,Sennewald, Adolf. ''Deutsche Buchillustratoren im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts.''
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1999, . (pp. 59, 115, 138, 155, 166, 173),
Charles Dickens
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Pushkin
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Washington Irving
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Amelia Edwards
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Valery Bryusov
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and
Karel
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* Christiaan Karel Appel, Dutch painter
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and
Josef Čapek
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were all published in ''Der Ochideengarten''. German language writers for the magazine included Strobl,
Hermann Harry Schmitz Hermann or Herrmann may refer to:
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* Éditions Hermann, French publisher
* Hermann, Miss ...
,
Leo Perutz
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and
Alexander Moritz Frey
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, as well as reprinted stories by
E. T. A. Hoffmann
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. Illustrations included reproductions of medieval
woodcuts
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and pictures by
Gustave Dore
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and
Tony Johannot
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He was born in Offenbach am Main. His father, François Johannot (c. 1760–1838), owned a silk fac ...
Heinrich Kley
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Kley studied "practical arts" at the Karlsruhe Akademie and finished his studies in Munich. His early works were conventio ...
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Alfred Kubin
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Carl Rabus
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Rabus was born in Kempten, and studied under Angelo Jank at the academy in Munich.
After various art exh ...
, (1898–1982) (famous for his work in the magazine '' Jugend'')
Otto Nückel
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