Austrian Literature Forum

Austrian Literature Forum
description	Literary magazine
language	German
publishing company	LITTERA - Association for the Promotion of Literature
First edition	1987
attitude	1991
Frequency of publication	Quarterly
Editor-in-chief	Johannes Diethart
editor	LITTERA Association for the Promotion of Literature, Johannes Diethart and Michael Lion, Association of the Austrian Literature Forum
Web link	www.onb.ac.at
ISSN	1011-8764

As Austrian Literary Forum changed its name from late 1987 to mid-1991, a German-language literary magazine that the LITTERA society for the promotion of literature under the direction of John Diethart founded in Vienna was moved. After the literary magazine ended, Johannes Diethart has been running a book publisher under the same label since 1989 .

Although this literary magazine triggered heated debates in some cases and was supported by prominent contributors as authors, the fifteenth issue with the number 2/1991 already marked its end after a good three and a half years. As far as they were still available, the remaining copies were taken over by the remaining distribution system of the previously discontinued Limes magazine ( St. Pölten , 1986–1990) and offered for sale until 1996.

Alignment

The magazine saw itself as a publication forum for German-language literature from Austria and Germany, which also translated foreign-language articles from other countries. Participants in the translations include a. Carla Kraus and Herbert Kuhner .

Published poetry , short stories , novel excerpts , essays , reviews and interviews . Although introductory texts on literature were also included here, contributions to or on “ literary theories ” were categorically rejected. Numerous drawings and caricatures were added to the text contributions , including a. by Kolibri and Klaus Pitter .

The main topics were sometimes kept more general as in “Women”, “Children” and “Satire”, but mostly more narrowly defined such as B. in "GDR - The gentle revolution" or "Abgenabelt - Eine LiteraChronik deutscher Länder". In this u. a. from Ulrich Karger , who lives in Berlin and who co-edited the magazine (ÖLF IV.3 / 1990), numerous German authors from East and West also commented on the newly reunified Germany with their contributions .

Authors (selection)

Evelyn Adunka Walter Back Wolfgang Becvar Sigrun Casper Manfred Chobot Milo Dor Jutta Schutting Franz-Josef Degenhardt Ines Eck Dietmar Füssel Anne Gollin Michael Guttenbrunner Hadayatullah Pretty Hanns Dieter Hüsch

Karin Ivancsics Ivan Ivanji Ulrich Karger Matthias Kehle Freya Klier Stephan Krawczyk Herbert Kuhner Frank-Wolf Matthies Norbert Ney Lutz Rathenow Gerhard Ruiss Angela Steinmüller Karlheinz Steinmüller Hannes Vyoral Achim Wannicke

Book publisher

Parallel to the literary magazine Österreichisches Literaturforum , its former editor-in-chief Johannes Diethart founded a small publishing house of the same name in 1989, which has published around 130 fiction book titles to date (as of 2010) - not a few of the authors' former contributors to the literary magazine.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ onb.ac.at Website of the Austrian National Library for the literary magazine Limes
2. ↑ onb.ac.at List of authors of the literary journal Österreichisches Literaturforum
3. ^ Dnb.de Proof of publication of the book publisher Österreichisches Literaturforum in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• onb.ac.at Website of the Austrian National Library for the literary magazine Österreichisches Literaturforum
• Official website of the book publisher Österreichisches Literaturforum