Alternative (magazine)
| Alternative: magazine for literature and discussion
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| Area of Expertise | Poetry, prose, political literature; discussion |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Alternative self-publishing |
| First edition | 1964 |
| attitude | 1982 |
| editor | Ansgar Skriver ; then Hildegard Brenner |
| Article archive | Archive for alternative culture |
| ISSN |
0002-6611 |
| ZDB | 243-4 |
Alternative was a German literary magazine that had been published by Hildegard Brenner in Berlin since 1964 as a magazine for literature and discussion and saw itself as the magazine of the New Left .
The predecessors Lyrische Blätter and Visa
The predecessor of the magazine Alternative , the magazine Lyrische Blätter , was published by Ansgar-Skriver-Verlag Berlin, founded in 1956. It was a series of narrow notebooks in which critical, mostly young authors spoke up. The editors were Hans-Christian Kirsch , Reimar Lenz and Ansgar Skriver . An outstanding issue was number 13 in 1957, in which young Polish authors had their say, for the first time in West Germany.
The poetry magazine Visum , which appears in southwest Germany, was also included in the alternative .
Alternative magazine
In August 1958 the magazine “Alternative - Blätter für Lyrik und Prosa” - published by Reimar Lenz and Richard Salis - was created through the merger of the magazines “Lyrische Blätter” and “Visum für Lyrik, Prosa und Graphik”. The first booklet contained poems by Christoph Meckel ( message in a bottle for a deluge, education of the prince ), Hans-Christian Kirsch , Jürgen Mittelstrass ( murderer and man ), Jürgen Beckelmann ( shooting range idyll, exclusive report ), Richard Salis ( emigration ), Peter Rühmkorf ( On this wave Pernod, who drank this lake ) and the London emigrant Arno Reinfrank ( scientific entry ). In addition, texts by Reimar Lenz ( The misunderstanding of modern poetry ) and Werner Dohm (Die Schützenwiese) as well as two illustrations by Willi Baumeister (for Shakespeare's "Storm"). In 1961 the subtitle was changed to “Journal for Poetry and Discussion”; the editors were now Reimar Lenz, Eva Müthel and Stefan Reisner .
Reimar Lenz, after Claus Leggewie one of the first German porters and supporters of Algerian independence, began in 1959 to collect material on the Algerian War of Independence . He found supporters in Berlin who constituted themselves as the Algeria project and put together an exhibition on the atrocities of the Algerian war in the FRG. The exhibition toured several German university cities from West Berlin, and the exhibition team left a diary - “a beautiful document of the politicization in the early Federal Republic” - which was printed in alternative in February 1962 (issue 22).
When Ansgar Skriver left Berlin in 1963, Hildegard Brenner took over the publishing house and the publication of the magazine at the beginning of 1964 , now under the title “Magazine for Literature and Discussion”. The years continued to count from year 7. The publisher got the name of the magazine. In addition to Hildegard Brenner, the editorial team included Georg Fülberth , Helga Gallas , Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner , Klaus Laermann , Helmut Lethen , Hartmut Rosshof and Peter B. Schumann ; Design: Ulrich Harsch .
The first issue, “ Writers in the GDR ”, for which Hildegard Brenner was responsible, contained texts by Volker Braun , Peter Hacks , Hartmut Lange , Christa Reinig , Johannes Bobrowski , Wolf Biermann , Günter Kunert , Heiner Müller , Franz Fühmann , Bernd Jentzsch and others as the first publications
Topics included: What is a National Socialist novel ? (Issue 36); the collection of Czechoslovak poetry, prose and drama with texts by Milan Kundera , Václav Havel and others (volume 42/43); a documentation on the structuralism discussion with contributions from Louis Althusser , Roland Barthes , Michel Foucault , Lucien Goldmann , Jacques Lacan , Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jean-Paul Sartre (issue 54); and the edition " The other view - feminist science ?" (Issue 120/121)
With the issue 145/146 "Im Aufriß" the magazine stopped its publication in 1982. The editorial team said: “ The left theory, as supported by 'Alternative', has… no more place and no space for reflection. ... And those who defend themselves within the social protest movements make no use of what we produce. This means that a magazine like 'Alternative' not only loses its audience, but also its function . "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Claus Leggewie: luggage carrier. The Algeria Project of the Left in Adenauer-Germany , Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88022-286-X , p. 28 ff.
- ↑ In the archive for alternative culture ( Memento of July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Call number: ZS AA0585
- ↑ Alternative 145/46, 1982, p. 133
literature
- Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner: Indispensable episode. Berlin 1967 , in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte II / 4 (2008), pp. 31–44.
- Sabine Koloch: Discussion platform for the undogmatic left. The magazine "Alternative" and its editor Hildegard Brenner [1] , in: 1968 in the German literary studies / topic group "The 68er: Topics, Theses, Theories" (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions) (2020) [2] .
- Helmut Lethen: About the game of infamy , in: Ders. (Ed.): Eerie neighborhoods. Essays on the Cold Cult and Insomnia in Philosophical Anthropology in the 20th Century, Freiburg i. Br., Berlin, Vienna 2009, pp. 135–150.
- Moritz Neuffer: Das Ende der “Alternative” , in: Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte VI / 4 (2012), pp. 50–61.