Editing Gustav Meyrink (section)

==Early works==
[[File:Der heise Soldat Gustav Meyrink.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''[[The Hot Soldier|The Hot Soldier and Other Stories]]'']]
During the 1900s Meyrink started publishing satiric [[short stories]] in the magazine ''[[Simplicissimus]]'', signing them with his mother's surname. During spring 1903 Meyrink's first book, ''[[The Hot Soldier|The Hot Soldier and Other Stories]]'', was published.  Approximately at the same time he relocated to [[Vienna]].  Almost immediately after his arrival he published another compilation of his short stories, ''The Orchid. Strange stories''.

On 8 May 1905 Meyrink married Philomene Bernt, whom he had known since 1896. On 16 July 1906 his daughter Sybille Felizitas was born. On 17 January 1908, two days before Meyrink's fortieth birthday, the second son, Harro Fortunat, was born. Subsequently, the main character of the second Meyrink's novel ''The Green Face'' was given the same name. In 1908 the third compilation of short stories, ''Waxworks'', was published.

Being in need of money, Meyrink started working as a translator, and he became a prolific one; during five years he managed to translate into German fifteen volumes of [[Charles Dickens]], as well as work by [[Rudyard Kipling]] and [[Lafcadio Hearn]].<ref name="fr">{{ cite book | author = Rottensteiner, F. | author-link = Franz Rottensteiner | chapter = Afterword | title = The Green Face | editor = Gustav Meyrink | others = Mitchell, M. (translator) | location = Sawtry | publisher = Dedalus / Ariadne | year = 1992 | pages = 218–224 | isbn = 0-946626-92-8 }}</ref> He continued translating until his death, including various occult works and even the Egyptian ''[[Book of the Dead]]''. Meyrink also edited a series of books on the occult.

In 1911 Meyrink relocated with his family to the little Bavarian town [[Starnberg]], and in 1913 the book ''Des deutschen Spießers Wunderhorn'' (''The German Philistine's Magic Horn'') was published in Munich. It was a compilation of short stories from the previous three books and several new ones; the title is a parody of ''[[Des Knaben Wunderhorn]]''. Many of these stories had satirical styles, ridiculing institutions such as the army and the church;  Austrian writer [[Karl Kraus (writer)|Karl Kraus]] would later describe Meyrink's work as combining "[[Buddhism]] with a dislike for the infantry".<ref name="fr" />