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In respect to the Northwestern-European avant-garde ofthe 1920s the suggestion is often made that this avant-garde did not produce a substantial literature; instead, it is generally assumed that their literary experiments remained rather isolated events. This contribution points at the fact that these experiments may have been isolated events on a national level, that, however, on a supranational level a quite extensive, internationally coherent avant-gardist literary school can be discerned in Northwestern and Eastern Europe, which may be termed constructivist. A school marked not in the last place by its supranational character as weil as by the fact that it was conceived by its protagonists from the outset as a supranational movement. The circumstance that this supranational constructivist school did not receive any substantial attention yet seems in particular the result of the conventional subdivision of literary studies …