"Europäische Revue" and “The Five Reviewsʼ Award” (1929-30): a Failed Cultural Project
Abstract
In 1929 the German cultural review Europäische Revue invited four other European reviews, from different countries, to participate in the launching of “The Five Reviews' Award”, to be organized each year by one of the publications, in their own language. These reviews were, in addition to the German one, the English The Criterion, the Spanish Revista de Occidente, the French La Nouvelle Revue française, and the Italian Nuova Antologia. The first edition of the contest, in German language, was held, and the prize was awarded to Der Hauptmann von Kapernaum, by Ernst Wiechert, but the project, however, was later interrupted. The aim of this paper is to analyse the evolution of this initiative: to examine and describe the development, circumstances and consequences of the contest, and to attempt to explain the failure of subsequent editions.
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