Die Aktion

1911-1932. Editor Franz Pfemfert

Pfemfert

 Pfemfert, Franz (1985) Ich Setze diese Zeitschrift wider diese Zeit: Sozialpolitische und Literarkritische Aufsätze

Karl Kraus

To whom in Prussian Germany did this name mean anything five or three years ago? A small circle of young men of letters valued the bearer of this name as the spirited and brilliant editor of the Viennese journal Die Fackel, and delighted in the brilliant firework of satirical commentaries which exploded violently three times a month in it. But Karl Kraus was no more than a wit to them.