NMLP P-031183 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)

Thomas Mann · Hans von Weber, Hyperionverlag (Munich), limited edition; trade edition S. Fischer Verlag (Berlin) · 1912

German is the true first. The text first appeared serially in Die Neue Rundschau (S. Fischer) in the October and November 1912 issues, which constitute the first periodical appearance. The von Weber Hyperion limited (1912, 100 numbered copies) is the first book appearance; the S. Fischer trade book edition is 1913. First English appeared from Knopf in 1925 in Death in Venice and Other Stories (trans. Kenneth Burke), later in the H. T. Lowe-Porter translation.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-031183 for "Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig)" by Thomas Mann (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-031183, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).