Georg Muschner (author)

Georg Muschner was a German playwright, poet, author and editor, active at the beginning of the 20th century.

Biography

Born in then Prussian Reichenbach, he moved to Munich around 1904. In addition to his substantial writings for artistic periodicals, he also edited important magazines, bringing himself into creative contact with influential writers of the time, including Erich Mühsam, Richard Dehmel, Friedrich Lienhard,,, Munich playwright Frank Wedekind and many others. In 1910, along with, he founded Die Lese, a literary magazine published yearly in Munich, which purported to bring the reader the best that German literature had to offer each year. For a time, he was sole editor at Die Lese.
Muschner was also a lieutenant in the Prussian Army. When he was called up to active service during the First World War, Etzel took over editing responsibilities. Muschner fell in battle in Galicia on the eastern front, on September 17, 1915.
He never married, but had a ten-year relationship with German-Jewish writer Clara Hepner while living in Munich, and published her works in Die Lese. After his death, she furthered the posthumous publication of Muschner's works.

Frau Eva: das Buch unsrer Liebe
Beitrag zu einer Geschichte der neueren Literatur, by Cäsar Flaischen
Das Riesengebirge. Ein Hand- und Reisebuch.
Betrachtungen über Kunst
Ernst Liebermann - München
Das Hamburger Bismarck-Denkmal
Persönlichkeits-Kunst
Fritz Erlers Wiesbadener Fresken
Schloss Rehnitz in der Mark
Zehn Gebote für Brautpaare
Aquarien und Terrarien für Kinderzimmer
Der Landstreicher: und andere Erzählungen by Carl Hauptmann, W. Bühler, M. Körner
Über die Brücke
Das Glücksschiff: Geschichten vom Rhein by Wilhelm August Schmidtbonn,
Und bin ich einmal verschollen....