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1913
 
    
Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion has its first performance – in a German version in Vienna       
Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle, 1914
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1913
 
    
German author Thomas Mann publishes the novella Death in Venice       
1922
 
    
Thomas Mann publishes a fragment of his Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man       
1923
 
    
Rainer Maria Rilke publishes his Duino Elegies and his Sonnets to Orpheus       
1924
 
    
German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain       
1927
 
    
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality       
1927
 
    
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme       
1927
 
    
Mysterious German author B. Traven writes a novel, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, about three Americans searching for a lost gold mine in Mexico       
1929
 
    
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army       
1947
 
     
Bertolt Brecht's play The Life of Galileo has its premiere in Los Angeles with Charles Laughton in the lead