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| an.schlag the feminist monthly magazine |
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| description | feminist magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | CheckArt, association for feminist media and politics |
| First edition | 1983 |
| Frequency of publication | 10 issues per year, monthly from February to July and from September to December |
| Editor | CheckArt, association for feminist media and politics |
| Web link | www.anschlaege.at |
| Article archive |
PDF-DownLoad of the years 2007 to 2010 with register for the years 2000 to 2010 |
| ISSN |
1993-3002 |
| ZDB | 824284-7 |
an.schlag is a feminist magazine from Austria , published by the CheckArt association.
history
The an.schlag was founded in 1983 by the association “Women Active in Culture and Work”. The founders of an.schlag were Andrea Krakora and Ingrid Lengheim (today: Ingrid Draxl). The magazine initially appeared four times a year, from 1988 onwards it was published monthly and is still the only feminist monthly magazine in German-speaking countries that appears eight times a year. It was temporarily stopped in 1991, but was revived in 1993 by the newly founded CheckArt association.
title
The title is a play on words and is intended to evoke associations with the typewriter attack as well as the attack on patriarchy as well as on the most original form of communication: the attacks on pronouncements in public places.
Content
According to its own description, the magazine an.schlag "sheds light on current political, social and cultural events from a consistently feminist perspective. The magazine also picks up on topics that otherwise rarely occur: We report on social protest and" politics from below ", write about bodies , Sex and self-determination, analyze developments in the new world of work, take a critical look at scientific discourses and portray upcoming female artists from art and pop. " The an.schlag describe their strategy on their homepage as follows: "We are concerned with making female realities and experiences visible in a male-dominated (media) world, with breaking up patriarchal structures and creating a feminist counter-public ."
Production conditions and financing
In general, the financial situation is tense due to a lack of basic funding and has worsened since the black and blue (or black and orange) government took office. In 2018, under the new black and blue government, funding from the Ministry of Women in the amount of around € 25,000 was discontinued. The magazine stopped receiving subsidies from the Ministry of Women (now Ministry of Health and Women).
Subsidies were also withdrawn from other women's organizations and institutions, which is noticeable in the magazine's absence of advertisers. In 2006, the an.schlag received support from the Vienna City Women's Office (MA 57) and journalism funding, as well as smaller project funding from the cultural departments of Vienna's districts and the Austrian Students' Union.
Independent sources of income for the magazine are subscriptions (currently 4,500 copies, as of March 2019), donations and the proceeds from advertisements. The magazine can only survive because of the volunteer work and extra work of the editors.
Media awards
- 1997 Prof. Claus Gatterer Prize for Critical Journalism
- 1998 Angela Heissenberger: Human rights award from the Concordia press club
- 1998 Martina Knopf: Prize from the Austrian Magazine Association
Web links
- an.schlag - the feminist magazine
- Feminist magazine “An.schlag”: “We have to stand together”. "Attacks" is celebrating its 35th birthday. Editor Lea Susemichel explains why the magazine needs money and how it reacts to the shift to the right in Austria.
- 35 years of attacks. "We are experiencing the greatest feminist revolution of all time". Interview with Lea Susemichel and Brigitte Theißl on mosaik-blog
- Archive of an.schlag tv on the an.schlag homepage
- Feminism today. International Women's Day, 40 years of New Feminism, 25 years of an.schlag. An interview with Lea Susemichel, in: Graswurzelrevolution No. 327, March 2008