Asperger's Authors' Workshop

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The Asperger Autorwerkstatt e. V. was active from 1994 to 2003 and was based in Asperg near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg . The union of freelance authors and literary professionals from the left-wing alternative literary scene in the 1990s gave itself the legal form of a registered association . The literary activist Michael Schönauer was co-founder and managing director . The Asperger Authors' Workshop dealt primarily with the literary underground , in particular social beat and later also slam poetry-Literature. She also appeared as editor of some publications and sometimes also as a small publisher .

history

The Asperger Authors' Workshop was founded in 1994 in the small town of Asperg, which is in the catchment area of ​​the state capital Stuttgart, on the initiative of the author, editor and publisher Michael Schönauer. The entry in the register of associations at the Ludwigsburg district court took place at the beginning of 1995. Before that, Schönauer, who comes from the neighboring district town of Ludwigsburg , self-published the alternative literary magazine einblick - Das Magazin für Literatur und Kunst , which is dedicated to promoting the literature of the In the 1990s. Schönauer was also one of the pioneers of the Social Beat in 1993/1994, played a key role in several nationwide literary festivals of the Social Beat scene and the slam poetry movement that was developing in parallel, and became one of the leading protagonists of the left-wing alternative literary scene of the 1990s Years.

The name of the authors' workshop in Asperg, later characterized as “Social Beat Headquarters South”, referred to the place name of the place where it was founded and where the association was based. Schönauer was the managing director of the registered association from 1994/12995 to 2003 . The author's workshop took over a. editorial work on anthologies , acted partly as editor and published some publications as a small publisher.

In 1995, as part of a new series of publications, the small publishing house Killroy Media , which still exists today , was founded, which has since been run as a sole proprietorship by sole owner Michael Schönauer . Killroy Media was also based in Asperg until 2013 and has been based in Ludwigsburg ever since.

The activities of the Asperger Authors' Workshop ended around 2003 after some of them had been transferred to the Killroy Media publishing house. The registered association was formally dissolved in 2013.

Activities and authors

In 1995, the Asperger Authors' Workshop organized the so-called “3. Social Beat Festival ”in Germany. After the first two social beat festivals, which were held in Berlin in 1993 and 1994 , two national social beat festivals took place in 1995, but not a “central” one. In addition to the now third from Kersten Flenter in Hannover organized Social Beat Music & Poetry Festival Asperger Author Workshop in Ludwigsburg organized at the local arts center Karlskaserne the festival Tatwort 1995 . In the run-up to the event, the authors' workshop advertised a program that it had published and edited by Michael Schönauer , which was distributed in an edition of 25,000.

The tatWort literature festival in 1995 created one of the first connections between the social beat and the emerging new literary movement of slam poetry . Among the participants were many later slam organizers, such as Munich's Rayl Patzak and Ko Bylanzky . In 1996 and 1998 Schönauer's Asperger author workshop then organized two more tatWort festivals in Ludwigsburg. In the second half of the 1990s, Schönauer himself appeared under the pseudonym “Yussuf M” as an action and performance artist at various slam poetry events and also organized slams in Stuttgart.

The Authors' Workshop published another issue of the literary magazine einblick , the subsequent issues were then published by Killroy Media. She also edited some books - mostly anthologies - and / or supervised them editorially and also published some books herself. The authors' workshop dealt with works by the authors Frank Bröker , Peter O. Chotjewitz , "HEL" ( Herbert Laschet Toussaint ) , Jaromir Konecny , Jan Off , Jürgen Ploog and Philipp Schiemann , from the artist "YAM" ( Yvonne A. Mühleis ), the artist Boris Kerenski with his Mailart campaign "Was ist Social Beat?" as well as by Michael Schönauer himself and his brother Joachim Schönauer.

The Asperger Authors' Workshop was a partner of the earlier Baden-Württemberg initiative : Places for Words. Literature Reading , which was founded in 1997 by the Baden-Württemberg state government to promote reading and literature.

literature

  • Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form. 2nd, expanded edition. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2383-9 , pp. 114, 119-122, 168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b According to the entry in the register of associations of the Ludwigsburg district court under the register number VR 1453 .
  2. ↑ a b c See KILLROY media - publishing feature and further information on the website of the Killroy Media publishing house (www.killroy-media.de); Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d e NN: 10 years of Social Beat - An inventory. Scientific (house) thesis, Humboldt University Berlin 2013 ( online as PDF).
  4. ↑ See Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013 (= 67th year, volume 2). Verlag Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023278-3 , p. 953: Entry on Schönauer, Michael ( excerpt from Google Books ).
  5. ↑ See entry on Schönauer Michael, ed . In: Database of the Archive Artist Publications , Munich (www.künstlerbucharchiv.de); Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  6. ↑ Ní Gudix : Save Killroy! Portrait of the publisher Killroy Media in the online feature section satt.org from July 2004; Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ See partner of the “Places for Words” initiative >>  Asperger Authors' Workshop, Asperg . Former listing, published by: Ministry of Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg , still available online at www.millennium-postbox.de; Retrieved February 26, 2014.