Allmende - magazine for literature

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description Literary magazine
language German
publishing company Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle / Saale
First edition 1981
Frequency of publication half-yearly
editor Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann
Web link allen-online.de
ISSN (print) 0720-3098

commons - literary magazine is a 1981 first published literary magazine , which was founded by a group of South German writers and cultural workers, including the later co-editor Martin Walser , Adolf Muschg and André Weckmann , also Hermann Kinder , Jochen Kelter , Peter Solomon and the two editors Manfred Bosch and Matthias Spranger . Later came as co-editor u. a. Ulrike Längle and Hermann Bausinger added.

The old German legal term common land denotes a community property, the use of which is available to all members of a community. In symbolic correspondence, Allmende wanted to take up an exemplary dialogue about the past and present of the Alemannic region in all literary, essayistic and documentary forms and genres . The peculiarity of the magazine was from the beginning in the border crossing, as it is decided in the "small internationality" of the Alemannic (which extends to Baden-Württemberg , the German-speaking Switzerland , Vorarlberg , the Alsace and Liechtenstein ). The region therefore did not see Allmende as a separate terrain, but - as it was stated in the reason for the award of the Reinhold Schneider Prize by the city of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1992, “as a place where space and closeness, home and foreign land meet meet and constantly interpenetrate. In this dialectic, the cultural journal Allmende is an important cultural-political ferment for Europe. "

From the beginning it was rated as "Critical Local Lore" and sympathetically supported by critics. The editions published twice a year in book format include articles by Lothar Baier , Hermann Bausinger , Peter Bichsel , Beat Brechbühl , Hermann Burger , Walter Dirks , Manfred Fuhrmann , Olga Grjasnowa , Erich Hackl , Peter Hamm , Josef Haslinger , Günter Herburger , Barbara Honigmann , Ricarda Junge , Kevin Kuhn , Angelika Klüssendorf , Ulrike Längle , Hanna Lemke , Ludger Lütkehaus , Christoph Meckel , Walter Moßmann , Adolf Muschg , Lotte Paepcke , Verena Roßbacher , Dieter Schlesak , Saša Stanišić , Martin Walser , André Weckmann and Markus Werner .

At the end of the 1980s, the magazine gradually switched to main topics: Topics were new literature from Vorarlberg, childhood - literary, female writing, cultural politics in crisis, 1848/49 - paths to revolution and Alemannic Judaism. Some of these editions provided further research and cultural policy impulses.

With the highly controversial cessation of magazine funding by the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2002, the question of the existence of the commons arose again. In 2003, the Literary Society Karlsruhe took over the editing under the leadership of Hansgeorg Schmidt-Bergmann .

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literature

  • Sandra Uschtrin and Heribert Hinrichs (eds.): Handbook for authors . 8th edition. Uschtrin Verlag, Inning am Ammersee 2015, ISBN 978-3-932522-16-1 , p. 269 .

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