BRECHT, Bertolt (Eugen Berthold Friedrich, 1898-1956), et al. . Die Ernte . Augsburg: August 1913-February 1914. 6 numbers (no.1: 170 x 127mm; nos.2-3: 163 x 127mm; no.4: 213 x 156mm; nos.6-7: 202 x 150mm). No.1 has 8 pages (and inserted leaf of editorial announcements), no.2 has 12, no.3 has 8 (and inserted leaf '1813'), no.4 has 12, with 'Inhaltsverzeichnis' and 'Preis fýr diese Nummer' pasted to inside of upper cover, with extra price label loose, no.6 ('Die Bibel: Drama in 1 Act') has 8, and no.7 has 8. Each no. stapled at centre of gathering (staples missing in no.4, inner bifolium loose in no.6).Text and illustrations stencilled in blue, green and purple (title of no.7 hand-painted). Covers of coloured paper, title etc. hand-painted (mainly in white; no.6 has cover stencilled in blue and yellow, with hand-painted border; no.7 has rose in red, pink and green). Provenance : Walter Groos (1898-1979, classmate of Brecht and contributor to Die Ernte ); by descent to his daughter. THE ONLY COMPLETE SET OF BRECHT'S EARLIEST PUBLISHED WORKS KNOWN TO SURVIVE. Edited and in great part written by Brecht, this periodical, produced while Brecht was a pupil at the Augsburg Realgymnasium, was long thought to have been lost. The six numbers present here are all that were published (in around 30 copies each), no.5 having been cancelled. While a partial set (missing no.2) surfaced in the late 1950s, when it was photographed, only to disappear again (now presumed lost), no copies were known to survive until a single copy of no.4 was found in 1995. The publicity generated by this event then led to the discovery of this set in the attic of the daughter of Brecht's classmate Walter Groos. Complete with insertions (except for one extra leaf, announcing a football game, present in the copy of no.1 photographed in the 1950s), this set is a unique testimony to the beginnings of Brecht's literary career. Far from a normal school magazine, this periodical was evidently intended as a vehicle for the literary and artistic ambitions of Brecht and his co-editor (and gifted illustrator) Fritz Gehweyer (1898-1918). Brecht's diaries for the period show him to have been responsible for more than two thirds of the contents, including pieces, such as the poem at the head of no.1, which were attributed to others (presumably so as to disguise Brecht's predominance; Brecht also used loosely disguised pseudonyms, such as Eugen Berthold), and not including anonymous pieces. Die Ernte , as well as containing Brecht's first dramatic work, Die Bibel , influenced by Hebbel and Lessing, gives important evidence of the ironic stance taken by him towards the patriotic 'Deutschtýmelei' of the time, as can be seen in pieces such as 'Der Tango' and 'Der Preussenbund', and shows early signs of his later formal experimentalism.
BRECHT, Bertolt (Eugen Berthold Friedrich, 1898-1956), et al. . Die Ernte . Augsburg: August 1913-February 1914. 6 numbers (no.1: 170 x 127mm; nos.2-3: 163 x 127mm; no.4: 213 x 156mm; nos.6-7: 202 x 150mm). No.1 has 8 pages (and inserted leaf of editorial announcements), no.2 has 12, no.3 has 8 (and inserted leaf '1813'), no.4 has 12, with 'Inhaltsverzeichnis' and 'Preis fýr diese Nummer' pasted to inside of upper cover, with extra price label loose, no.6 ('Die Bibel: Drama in 1 Act') has 8, and no.7 has 8. Each no. stapled at centre of gathering (staples missing in no.4, inner bifolium loose in no.6).Text and illustrations stencilled in blue, green and purple (title of no.7 hand-painted). Covers of coloured paper, title etc. hand-painted (mainly in white; no.6 has cover stencilled in blue and yellow, with hand-painted border; no.7 has rose in red, pink and green). Provenance : Walter Groos (1898-1979, classmate of Brecht and contributor to Die Ernte ); by descent to his daughter. THE ONLY COMPLETE SET OF BRECHT'S EARLIEST PUBLISHED WORKS KNOWN TO SURVIVE. Edited and in great part written by Brecht, this periodical, produced while Brecht was a pupil at the Augsburg Realgymnasium, was long thought to have been lost. The six numbers present here are all that were published (in around 30 copies each), no.5 having been cancelled. While a partial set (missing no.2) surfaced in the late 1950s, when it was photographed, only to disappear again (now presumed lost), no copies were known to survive until a single copy of no.4 was found in 1995. The publicity generated by this event then led to the discovery of this set in the attic of the daughter of Brecht's classmate Walter Groos. Complete with insertions (except for one extra leaf, announcing a football game, present in the copy of no.1 photographed in the 1950s), this set is a unique testimony to the beginnings of Brecht's literary career. Far from a normal school magazine, this periodical was evidently intended as a vehicle for the literary and artistic ambitions of Brecht and his co-editor (and gifted illustrator) Fritz Gehweyer (1898-1918). Brecht's diaries for the period show him to have been responsible for more than two thirds of the contents, including pieces, such as the poem at the head of no.1, which were attributed to others (presumably so as to disguise Brecht's predominance; Brecht also used loosely disguised pseudonyms, such as Eugen Berthold), and not including anonymous pieces. Die Ernte , as well as containing Brecht's first dramatic work, Die Bibel , influenced by Hebbel and Lessing, gives important evidence of the ironic stance taken by him towards the patriotic 'Deutschtýmelei' of the time, as can be seen in pieces such as 'Der Tango' and 'Der Preussenbund', and shows early signs of his later formal experimentalism.
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