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.
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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.
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edit- 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