!!!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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