Die Insel (in English "The Island") was a German literary and art magazine that was published in Munich from 1899 to 1901 by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Alfred Walter Heymel, and Rudolf Alexander Schröder.
Despite its short life, it is considered one of the most important German literary magazines of early modernism. The magazine published texts from already well-known authors like Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilke as well as from new voices like Robert Walser.
The symbol of the magazine, a sailing boat, was designed by Peter Behrens. It is still the logo of the Insel Verlag publishing company, which arose from the magazine.
Authors
Otto Julius Bierbaum
Max Dauthendey
Richard Dehmel
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Arno Holz
Maurice Maeterlinck
Rainer Maria Rilke
Paul Scheerbart
August Strindberg
Robert Walser
Frank Wedekind
References
Bierbaum, Otto Julius, Heymel, Alfred Walter, Schröder, Rudolf Alexander (Hg.): Die Insel. Monatsschrift mit Buchschmuck und Illustrationen. Faksimileausgabe in zwölf Bänden mit einem Begleitband Die ersten Jahre des Insel Verlags. 1899 - 1902 von Klaus Schöffling, Frankfurt 1981 Kurt Ifkovits: Die Insel. Eine Zeitschrift der Jahrhundertwende. Dissertation, Vienna, 1997