ALMANACK. Die Brigantine. Ein Almanach auf das Jahr 1951.

Almanack for Emigrants

ALMANACK. Die Brigantine. Ein Almanach auf das Jahr 1951. Hamburg: Hans Dulk. [1951.]

8vo. Publisher’s turquoise printed wrappers printed in black and white; pp. 112, [7], [1 (blank)]; 8 ff. photographic plates including frontispiece, a few in-text illustrations; slight creasing to wrappers; otherwise very good; old ownership inscription to front free endpaper.

First edition of this Hamburg literary almanack for 1951, the fourth instalment of Hans Dulk’s Brigantine series, distributed internationally in response to letters expressing interest from Germans living all over the world.

This issue is dedicated to the memory of the Chinese-born German bookseller and poet Werner Hundertmark, who died in 1945 during the Second World War – his portrait photograph is the frontispiece and the first work is a poem of his. Of particular note are an article from Jewish German–Norwegian writer Max Tau on being the first recipient of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1950 (pp. 35–40); the poem ‘Wander-Thirst’ by poet Gerald Gould, here in the original English (pp. 55–56); and Marlen Berkenbusch’s German translation of a poem by English poet laureate John Masefield (pp. 66–67). There are also reflections on life in Ireland by émigré George Rosenstock, father of the Irish-language poet Gabriel Rosenstock; and an extract from Man of Aran by Irish actor Pat Mullen. Mullen starred in – and was co-director of – the 1934 fictional documentary of the same name, which won the first National Board of Review Award for Best International Film.

Listed amongst Dulk’s forthcoming publications are the letters of André Gide and Francis Jammes, as well as those of André Gide and Paul Claudel, both translated by Countess Yvonne Kanitz.

Outside Germany and Switzerland, OCLC finds five copies of any issue of Die Brigantine in the US (Harvard, Notre Dame, Penn State, Rice, Yale), one in the UK (BL), and one in Australia (Melbourne).

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