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-{{Template}}'''Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart''' (born [[January 8]] [[1863]] in [[Danzig]] - [[October 15]], [[1915]] in [[Berlin]]) was an author of [[fantastic]] [[literature]] and [[drawing]]s. He published also under the [[pseudonym]] ''Kuno Küfer''. He is best known for the book ''Glasarchitektur'' from [[1914]].+{{Template}}'''Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart''' (born [[January 8]] [[1863]] in [[Danzig]] - [[October 15]], [[1915]] in [[Berlin]]) was an author of [[fantastic]] [[literature]] and [[drawing]]s. He published also under the [[pseudonym]] ''Kuno Küfer''. He is best known for the book ''[[Glasarchitektur]]'' from [[1914]].
He was associated with [[expressionist architecture]] and [[Bruno Taut]]. He composed aphoristic poems about [[glass]] for the [[Glass Pavilion]] at the [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)]]. He was associated with [[expressionist architecture]] and [[Bruno Taut]]. He composed aphoristic poems about [[glass]] for the [[Glass Pavilion]] at the [[Werkbund Exhibition (1914)]].

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Paul Karl Wilhelm Scheerbart (born January 8 1863 in Danzig - October 15, 1915 in Berlin) was an author of fantastic literature and drawings. He published also under the pseudonym Kuno Küfer. He is best known for the book Glasarchitektur from 1914.

He was associated with expressionist architecture and Bruno Taut. He composed aphoristic poems about glass for the Glass Pavilion at the Werkbund Exhibition (1914).

Life

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Paul Scheerbart

Paul Scheerbart began his studies of philosophy and history of art in 1885. In 1887 he worked as a poet in Berlin and tried to invent Perpetual motion machines. In 1892 he was one of the joint founders of the Verlag deutscher Phantasten (Publishers of German Dreamers).

At this time he was in financial difficulties. After writing in different publications he produced his first novel 'Die große Revolution' ( The Great Revolution ), which was published by the Insel-Verlag. The young Ernst Rowohlt published Scheerbart's bizarre poem collection Katerpoesie and became his friend.

Scheerbart's fantastic essays about glass architecture influenced architects at that time, including the young Bruno Taut. Among his Berlin friends and drinking circle was Erich Mühsam, who dedicated a chapter to Scheerbart in his 'Unpolitical Memories'. Scheerbart, whose own works played on far planets, was also friendly with Richard Dehmel. He had an important influence on Walter Benjamin who quoted his ideas on glass in his Arcades Project.

Work

  • 1889 Das Paradies. Die Heimat der Kunst (Paradise. Home of the Arts)
  • 1893 Ja... was... möchten wir nicht Alles!, (Yes.....What......We woudn't all like to have!), A Fable
  • 1897 Ich liebe Dich!, (I love you), A Novel with 66 Intermezzos
  • 1897 Bagdads berühmte Köchin, (Bagdad's famous female cook), Arab culture novel
  • 1897 Der Tod der Barmekiden, (The death of the Barmekiden), Arab Harem novel
  • 1898 Na prost!, (Well Cheers!) Fantasy King novel
  • 1900 Die wilde Jagd, (The wild hunt), a development novel in eight stories
  • 1901 Rakkóx der Billionär, (Rakkóx the trillionaire) an ostentatious novel
  • 1901 Die Seeschlange (The Sea Serpent) A sea novel
  • 1902 Die große Revolution, (The Great Revolution) A moon novel
  • 1902 Immer mutig!, (Always courageously!) A Fantasy novel
  • 1902 Liwûna und Kaidôh, A Soul novel
  • 1902 Weltglanz, (World Shine), a sun fairy tale
  • 1903 Kometentanz, (Comet dance), Astral Pantomime in two acts
  • 1903 Der Aufgang zur Sonne, (The stairway to the sun), house fairy tales
  • 1904 Der Kaiser von Utopia, (The emperor of Utopia), a folktale
  • 1904 Machtspäße, (Clowning about), Arab novellas
  • 1904 Revolutionäre Theater-Bibliothek, (Revolutionary theatre library), collection of plays
  • 1906 Münchhausen und Clarissa, Berlin novel
  • 1909 Die Entwicklung des Luftmilitarismus und die Auflösung der europäischen Land-Heere, Festungen und Seeflotten, (The development of air militarism and the dissolution of the European Land-army, fortresses and sea-fleets)
  • 1909 Kater-Poesie, (Kater poetry), poems
  • 1910 Das Perpetuum mobile, (The Perpetual mobile), the history of an invention
  • 1912 Das große Licht, (The Great Light) A Münchhausen-Breviary
  • 1912 Flora Mohr, A glass flower novella
  • 1913 Lesabéndio, an Asteroid novel
  • 1914 Das graue Tuch und zehn Prozent Weiß, (The grey cloth and ten per cent of white), a ladies novel
  • 1914 Glasarchitektur (Glass architecture)
  • 1921 Von Zimmer zu Zimmer, (From room to room) letters to his wife




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