Vereinigungen and Die Schwärmer. 1911–1914 Librarian at the Technical University of Vienna. 1911 on 15 April Musil marries Martha Marcovaldi. Vereinigungen is published. 1912–1914 Editor for several literary magazines, including Neue Rundschau. 1914–1918 During World War I, Musil is officer at the Italian front. Decorated several times. 1916–1917 July–April: publishes the "Soldaten-Zeitung". 1917 On 22 October, Alfred Musil was hereditary ennobled as Alfred Edler von Musil, making Robert Musil also a member of the nobility until it was abolished less than two years later. 1918 Takes up writing again. 1919–1920 Works for the Information Service of the Austrian foreign department in Vienna. 1920 April–June: lives in Berlin. Meets Ernst Rowohlt, who will become his publisher in 1923. 1920–1922 Adviser for army matters in Vienna. 1921–1931 Works as theatre critic, essayist, and writer in Vienna. Works on Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften. 1921 The play Die Schwärmer is published. 1923–1929 Is vice-president of Schutzverband deutscher Schriftsteller in Österreich. Meets Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who is president of the foundation. 1923 Awarded the Kleist Prize for Die Schwärmer. On 4 December Vinzenz und die Freundin bedeutender Männer is premièred in Berlin. 1924 on 24 January his mother died and on 1 October his father died. Awarded the art prize of the city of Vienna. Drei Frauen is published. 1927 Delivers a speech following the death the previous year of Rainer Maria Rilke in Berlin. 1929 4 April première of Die Schwärmer. Over Musil's objections, the play is shortened and, according to him, incomprehensible. In the autumn awarded the Gerhart Hauptmann award. 1930 The first two parts of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften are published. In spite of critical support, Musil's financial situation is precarious. 1931–1933 Lives and works in Berlin. 1932 Foundation of a Musil-Gesellschaft by Kurt Glaser in Berlin. The foundation aims to provide Musil with the means necessary to continue working on his novel. At the end of the year the third part of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften is published. 1933 in May Musil leaves Berlin with his wife, Martha. Via Karlovy Vary and Potštejn in Czechoslovakia they reach Vienna. 1934–1938 After the dismantling of the Berlin Musil-Gesellschaft, a new one is founded in Vienna. 1935 Lecture for the Internationalen Schriftstellerkongress für die Verteidigung der Kultur in Paris. 1936 Publishes his collection of thoughts, observations, and stories Nachlass zu Lebzeiten. Suffers a stroke. 1937 on 11 March invited by the Werkbund lecture "On