Jemand is not a wordless novel. It is designed for a speaker and a choir in conjunction with a simultaneous screening of images from Die Passion eines Menschen by Frans Masereel.

Front cover of Jemand.
  • Title: Jemand. Ein Chorwerk von Hans Sahl, Mit den Holzschnitten “Die Passion eines Menschen” von Frans Masereel
  • Author: Hans Sahl
  • Illustrator: Frans Masereel
  • Foreword: Hans Sahl
  • Date of publication: 1938
  • Publisher: Oprecht
  • Printer: Cooperative Printing Works Zurich
  • Place of publication: Zürich
  • Copyright: Dr. Oprecht & Helbling A. G., Zurich
  • Binding: apparently in 3 versions
    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • loose sheets in envelope
  • Language: German titles, etc
  • Paginated
  • Printed: verso and recto
  • Edition: stated to be 50 copies numbered as well as signed by Sahl and Masereel
    • threre is no mention of the unnumbered copies which clearly exist
  • Printed from the original matrix: but this is unclear
  • Description: the work consists of a series 25 woodcuts by Masereel, followed by 31pages of a kind of libretto, the text for the „Chorwerk“, a piece for choir and speaker. For a performance there should be the speaker, the choir and a parallel screening of Masereel’s images.
Jemand: back, spine, and front cover.
Jemand title page.
Jemand – image from Die Passion
Jemand: text to accompany images.