Revolution Nos. 1 - 5 [COMPLETE]

München: Heinrich F. S. Bachmair, 1913. First edition. Softcover. Very good+ condition. Small Folio. 8pp each issue. Original newsprint with red lettering and original woodcut on cover page of volume one housed in generic white stiff wraps portfolio. Published in an edition of 3,000 for the first issue, 5,000 for issue two through five. Biweekly of the Munich Expressionists.

The first issue of this revolutionary biweekly was confiscated due to the publication of Hugo Ball's poem "Der Henker (The Executioner)." Issue five was a tribute to Franz Jung's friend Otto Gross, an Austrian psychoanalyst, and an early disciple of Sigmund Freud. He had (truncated) been incarcerated as a "dangerous anarchist" in November 1913 and was deported to Austria. Gross had joined the group of the "Aktion," a publication founded by Franz Pfemfert. "Revolution" was published after the model and in the format of "Die Aktion."

"Let's be Chaotic" was the battle cry of the publication being provocative and destructive in every which way. Contributors to the "Revolution" were avant garde writers and artists Hugo Ball, Johannes R. Becher, Gottfried Benn, Franz Blei, Max Brod, Klabund, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, among others. All issues with advertisements on last two pages.

Volume 1: With an original woodcut "Revolution" by Richard Seewald. Contributions by Johannes R. Becher, Erich Mühsam, Hugo Ball, Leonhard Frank, Klabund, Fritz Lenz, Emmy Hennings, Hans Hatbeck, Franz Blei, Kurt Hiller, Alfred Kerr, Leybold and Bachmair.

Volume 2: With headline "Number 1 was confiscated by the police!." Includes contributions by Klabund, Bol Jlä, Max Brod, Leonhard Frank. and others.

Volume 3: Also contains headline re the confiscation of No. 1. Contributors include Michael Georg Conrad, Hugo Ball, Robert Musil, Peter Baum, Kurt Hiller, and others.

Volume 4: Includes an open letter "Censorship and Us," addressed to the Union of German Writers, and contributions by Klabund, Alois Essigmann, Otty S. Bennewitz, Philipp Keller, Walter Hasenclever, and others.

Volume 5: Special issue for Otto Groß with contributions by Ludwig Rubiner, Blaise Cendrars, Erich Mühsam, S. Guttmann, Otto Groß, Johannes R. Becher, Else Lasker-Schüler, and others.

Text in German, Gothic script. Very light wear along edges. Minor age-toning and creasing. Unopened at top edge. Portfolio lightly rubbed/. (Inventory #: 55060)