!!!Müller, Robert

b. Vienna, Oct. 29, 1887, 
d. Vienna, Aug. 28, 1924 (suicide), narrative writer, poet, 
essayist and publisher. Key figure in the expressionist movement in 
Vienna, famous also for his feud with K.  Kraus (pamphlet "Karl Kraus 
oder Dalai Lama", 1914). In World War I volunteered for service at the 
Isonzo front, then worked for the war press service. After the war 
became a committed pacifist and publisher (publishing houses: 
Literaria A. G. and Atlantischer Verlag). Committed suicide after 
his large scale-publishing projects failed financially.

!Works
Prose and novels: Irmelin Rose. Die Mythe der grossen Stadt, 
1914; Tropen. Der Mythos der Reise, 1915; Das Inselmaedchen, 1919; Der 
Barbar, 1920; Camera obscura, 1921; Flibustier, 1922. - Essays: Oe. 
und der Mensch, 1916; Europa. Wege. Im Kampf um den Typus, 1917. - 
Edition: Werkausgabe in Einzelbaenden, ed. by G. Helmes, 
11 vols., 1992-1997.

!Literature
H. Kreuzer and G. Helmes (eds.), Exotismus. Studien zum 
literar. Werk R. M., %%sup 2/%1989; T. Koester, 
Bilderschrift Grossstadt. Studien zum Werk R. M., 1995; 
S. Dietrich, Poetik der Paradoxie. Zu R. M. fiktionaler 
Prosa, 1997.



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