{"id":2296,"date":"2007-08-26T02:18:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2008-07-21T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T15:34:54","slug":"hugo-steiner-prags-golem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/08\/26\/hugo-steiner-prags-golem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Steiner-Prag’s Golem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Der Golem, first edition (1915) and Dover reprint (1986).
\nIllustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. <\/em><\/p>\n

Before leaving Prague (for the time being), it’s worth mentioning the lithograph illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880\u20131945) for Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem<\/em>. These atmospheric drawings always remind me of the production sketches Albin Grau created for Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens<\/em><\/a> in 1922. Grau was an occultist as well as a horror aficionado and would certainly have read Meyrink’s book which was a Europe-wide bestseller when first published. The success of the novel inspired Paul Wegener’s first Golem<\/em><\/a> film (now lost) which in turn helped fuel the demand for horror films that led eventually to Nosferatu<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Nosferatu poster by Albin Grau (1922).<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s little of Steiner-Prag’s work available on the web but the Dover paperback<\/a> above contains all the illustrations. The novel has been re-translated recently<\/a> but I’ve yet to read one of the more recent editions to see how it compares with Dover’s 1928 Madge Pemberton version.<\/p>\n

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The Golem by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1915). <\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Nosferatu<\/a>
\n\u2022 Barta’s Golem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Der Golem, first edition (1915) and Dover reprint (1986). Illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag. Before leaving Prague (for the time being), it’s worth mentioning the lithograph illustrations by Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880\u20131945) for Gustav Meyrink’s The Golem. These atmospheric drawings always remind me of the production sketches Albin Grau created for Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens … Continue reading “Hugo Steiner-Prag’s Golem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,42,51,7,22,48],"tags":[6607,402,358,5312,361,146],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-white","category-books","category-cities","category-film","category-horror","category-illustrators","tag-albin-grau","tag-golem","tag-gustav-meyrink","tag-hugo-steiner-prag","tag-paul-wegener","tag-prague"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-B2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}