Dada & Modernist Magazines


der blutige ernst
COVER
1. Jahr, No. 5 (January 1920); collection Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
- DESCRIPTION
Der blutige Ernst
Subtitle Satirisches Wochenschrift
1. Jahr, N° 1 (November 1919) - 1. Jahr, N° 6 (February 1920)
Edited by John Höxter (N° 1-2); Carl Einstein (N° 3-6) and George Grosz (N° 3-5). Published by Trianon-Verlag, Berlin
Special numbers:
- 1. Jahr, N° 1 (November 1919) 'Sondernummer I. Der Artz'
1. Jahr, N° 3 (November 1919) 'Sondernummer III. Die Schuldigen'
1. Jahr, N° 4 (December 1919) 'Sondernummer IV. Die Schieber'
1. Jahr, N° 5 (January 1920) 'Sondernummer V. Rückkehr der Monarchie'
Originally published semi-monthly (N° 1-2); later weekly (N° 3-6)
Table of contents in Dawn Ades Dada and surrealism reviewed / with an introduction by David Sylvester and a supplementary essay by Elizabeth Cowling (Arts Council : London 1978).
- 36-40.
- MAIN CONTRIBUTORS
Texts by Franz Jung, Walter Mehring, Carl Einstein, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck.
- FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
- online
- Digital Dada Library, International Dada Archive: N° 4 only.
- German Literary Expressionism Online. Journals, Yearbooks, Collections, Anthologies. Edited by Paul Raabe (W. de Gruyter : Berlin, New York 2008). Consult the brochure with the complete list [pdf].
- printed
- Reprinted by Kraus Reprint (Nendeln 1977). Issued with Jedermann sein eigner Fussball, Der Mistral (Zurich); Die Neue Literatur (Leipzig 1916) and Die Pleite.
- SECONDARY LITERATURE
- Emily Hage
'Der blutige Ernst', in Dada (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 2005) 194.
- Charles W. Haxthausen
'Bloody Serious. Two Texts by Carl Einstein', in October 105 (Summer 2003) 105-118 [URL www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/016228703769684182].
- Sabine T. Kriebel
'Radical left magazines in Berlin: Die Pleite (1919, 1923-4); Der blutige Ernst (1919); Der Gegner (1919-22); Der Knüppel (1923-7); Eulenspiegel (1928-31); AIZ/VI (1924-38)', in The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940 / edited by Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, and Christian Weikop (Oxford University Press : Oxford etc. forthcoming).
