Hyperion (magazine)

Hyperion was a German bimonthly literary magazine published out of Munich by Franz Blei and Carl Sternheim. Between 1908 and 1910, twelve booklets in ten editions appeared.

Hyperion

Founder	Franz Blei Carl Sternheim
First issue	1908
Final issue	1910
Country	Germany
Based in	Munich
Language	German

It was an expensively produced booklet with modern graphics created by Walter Tiemann. Not only were major authors published in the magazine, but also unknown and first-published authors.

The first eight prose works of Franz Kafka appeared in the magazine: The Trees (Die Bäume), Clothes (Kleider), The Rejection (Die Abweisung), The Businessman (Der Kaufmann), Absent-minded Window-gazing (Zerstreutes Hinausschaun), The Way Home (Der Nachhauseweg), Passers-by (Die Vorüberlaufenden) and On the Tram (Der Fahrgast).^[1]

Artists and writers

Artists

• Aubrey Beardsley
• Erich Heckel
• Aristide Maillol
• Auguste Rodin
• Paul Signac
• Heinrich Kley^[2]

Writers

• Franz Blei
• Rudolf Borchardt
• Max Brod
• Hans Carossa
• Paul Claudel
• Carl Einstein
• André Gide
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• Franz Kafka
• Heinrich Mann
• George Meredith
• Robert Musil
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• René Schickele
• Carl Sternheim