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    banner: detail from 'Mechanischer Kopf' (Der Geist unserer Zeit), 1918 [Collection Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
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der mistral

  • coverDESCRIPTION
    • Subtitle Literarische Kriegszeitung (Nr. 2); Zeitschrift für Literatur und Kunst (Nr. 3)
    • 1, Nr. 1 (3 March 1915) - Nr. 3 (26 April 1915)
    • Edited by Hugo Kersten (Nr. 1-2), Walter Serner (Nr. 3), Konrad Milo and Emil Szittya (Nr. 1-2). Published in Zürich; printed by Julius Heuberger, Zürich.
    • Continues Neue Menschen ; continued by Horizont Flugschriften .
    • Bibliographic references:
      1. Datenbank des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus - DadA.
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Guillaume Apollinaire, Lajos Kassák, Johannes R. Becher, Marinetti, Max Herrmann-Neiße, Walter Serner, and others.
  • FACSIMILES/REPRINTS
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  • printed
    • Der blutige Ernst, Jg. 1, 1919. Jedermann sein eigener Fussball, Jg. 1, 1919. Der Mistral, Jg. 1, 1915. Die Neue Literatur, Jg. 1, 1916. Die Pleite, Jg. 1, 1919/20 (Kraus Reprint : Nendeln/Millwood NY 1977).
  • SECONDARY LITERATURE
  • Andras Bozoki and Miklos Sükösd
    Anarchism in Hungary. Theory, history, legacies (Social Science Monographs : Boulder CO 2006) 134-142.
  • Armin A. Wallas
    'Von "Mistral" zu "Horizont". Emil Szittya und Dada', in DADAutriche, 1907-1970 / herausgegeben von Günther Dankl und Raoul Schrott; mit Beiträgen von Éva Bajkay ... [et al.] (Haymon-Verlag : Innsbruck 1993) 21-31; also in Armin A. Wallas, Österreichische Literatur-, Kultur-und Theaterzeitschriften im Umfeld von Expressionismus, Aktivismus und Zionismus / hrsg. von Andrea M. Lauritsch (Arco Wissenschaft : Wuppertal 2008) 117-132.
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  • Emil Szittya
  • Around 1905, Emil Szittya (1886-1964) began to take an interest in literature and the fine arts, and this turn was fixed when he became personally acquainted with the poet Endre Ady. Under the influence of Ady and the 1905 Russian Revolution he moved towards socialism, and during his trip to Paris in 1906 and 1907 he shifted towards anarchism. Around 1907 he still did not know himself whether he wanted to be a writer and artist, or an anarchist activist. His writings were rather trying to be original than actually original, the characters were rather freaks than people. While Kassak adopted the 'constructive' side of anarchist thought that he recognized in the work of Kropotkin and Ervin Szabo, Szittya made the 'destructive' side his own. Against the collectivist anarchism of Tolstoy or Kropotkin, Szittya preferred the teachings of Stirner and Nietzsche [...]
  • In 1908 he published a short book together with Gyula Wojticzky lauding the poet Endre Ady, and his writings then gradually began to appear in the periodicals. In the same year he appeared in the Swiss town of Ascona, in the Monte Verità circle [...]
  • Between 1909 and 1912, Szittya lived in Paris, where he published anonymously a series of articles antitled 'Anarchism and Beauty' in the periodical he edited with Blaise Cendrars, Les Hommes Nouveaux. At this time he still participated in Freemason and anarchist organizations; with Hans Richter, one of his editorial colleagues, for example, he wrote to Ervin Szabo inviting him to work for the periodical. In 1912, the anarchists Le Retif, Stodolsky, Bschorr, and Murmain became contributors to Les Hommes Nouveaux [...]
  • He was in Brussels at the outbreak of war, then returned to Hungary, and then in early 1915 appeared in Zurich among antiwar activists. Wih Hugo Kersten and Walter Serner he edited the journal Der Mistral, of which three issues were published [...]
  • His output was particularly high between 1915 and 1917, especially in the radical journal Új Nemzedék [= New Generation], in Pesti Futár [= Pest Courier] and Magyar Figyelo [= Hungarian Observer], and later in his own pamphlet-type journal Horizont [...]
  • After 1919, Szittya - the 'conductor of mystery' frequented various towns in Austria and Germany, and in 1927 he settled finally in Paris. He broke his ties with Hungary and became an established French writer, painter and historian of art.
  • TEXT CREDITS
    Andras Bozoki and Miklos Sükösd, Anarchism in Hungary. Theory, history, legacies (Social Science Monographs : Boulder COL 2006) 134-142.