Der Orchideengarten

Der Orchideengarten
Der Orchideengarten

Der Orchideengarten, 1920 cover
Editor Karl Hans Strobl
Alfons von Czibulka
Categories Fantasy fiction magazines
First issue 1919
Company Drerlanderverlag
Country Germany
Language German

Der Orchideengarten ('Garden of Orchids'; subtitled Phantastische Blatter or 'Fantastic Pages') was a Munich, German magazine that appeared for 51 issues from January, 1919 until November, 1921.[1] Founded four years before the American magazine Weird Tales was launched in March 1923, it is hailed as the first fantasy magazine.[2] Also described as largely 'supernatural horror', it was edited by World War I correspondent and freelance writer Karl Hans Strobl[3] and Alfons von Czibulka,[4] published by Drerlanderverlag. It had 24 pages per issue printed on rough book paper.[1]

The magazine included a wide selection of fantastic stories by famous foreign authors such as Dickens, Pushkin, Charles Nodier, Maupassant, Poe, Voltaire, Gautier, Washington Irving, Hawthorne, H. G. Wells, Victor Hugo, and Karel and Josef Capek.[5] German language writers for the magazine included Strobl, H.H. Schmizt and Leo Perutz. Illustrations included works by Gustave Dore, Tony Johannot, Rolf von Hoerschelmann, Otto Linnekogel, Karl Ritter, Heinrich Kley, and Alfred Kubin.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Halbert W. Hall, Science/fiction collections: fantasy, supernatural & weird tales. Routledge, 1983, p.89.
  2. ^ Ashley, Michael (2000). The time machines: the story of the science-fiction pulp magazines from the beginning to 1950. Liverpool UP. p. 15. ISBN 9780853238553. http://books.google.com/books?id=BjI4-qex0JgC&pg=PA15. 
  3. ^ Paijmans, Theo. "At the dark heart of Lemuria, 1917". The Black Sun. http://dieschwarzesonne.blogspot.com/2007/07/at-dark-heart-of-lemuria.html. Retrieved 3 January 2010.  more on Strobl
  4. ^ Paijmans, Theo. "Garden of Orchids". The Black Sun. http://dieschwarzesonne.blogspot.com/2006/08/garden-of-orchids.html. Retrieved 3 January 2010. 
  5. ^ a b Franz Rottensteiner, The fantasy Book An Illustrated History From Dracula To Tolkien. Collier Books, 1978, 160pp.

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