Bizarre cities
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| description | Literary magazine |
| language | German |
| First edition | 1987 |
| attitude | 1989 |
| editor | Asteris Kutulas |
| ZDB | 1133193-8 |
The magazine Bizarre Cities , which belonged to the third generation of unofficial magazines in the GDR, appeared between 1987 and 1989 in thirteen issues. The editor of the magazine, Berlin-based Germanist Asteris Kutulas , pursued a concept that was open in terms of topics and content and allowed authors of different generations and divergent views to have their say.
In addition to established writers such as Volker Braun , Heiner Müller , Christoph Hein , Heinz Czechowski , Adolf Endler and Uwe Kolbe, Kutulas published the young and sometimes experimentalists Johannes Jansen , Frank Lanzendörfer , Bert Papenfuß-Gorek , Matthias Baader Holst , Jan Faktor , Durs Grünbein and others Almost all contributions were first published.
Graphic artists, photographers and painters also played a major role in the sometimes very elaborate editions with original graphics and photos, such as Erika Stürmer-Alex , Trak Wendisch , Carsten Nicolai , Leonore Adler , Gottfried Bräunling , Horst Hussel , Angela Hampel , Johannes Heisig , AR Penck , Lutz Fleischer and others
Bizarre Cities combined many literary genres, but also offered graphics, drawings and photos as well as audio productions on cassette - weighted differently from issue to issue. The number of copies ranged from 21 to 100 copies per issue. BS behaved relatively autonomously compared to the other “underground magazines” and from today's perspective appear as independent in the “scene”.
The two Dresden volumes of the Bizarre Cities series were compiled by Gregor Kunz and Thomas Haufe, Thomas Haufe also printed all the pictures of these editions in his Dresden workshop. The poet Gerd Adloff was co-editor of volume no . Ina Kutulas , Johannes Jansen, who also came up with the idea for the title “Bizarre Cities” (based on the poem “Bizarre Towns” by Vítězslav Nezval, written in 1943), were the editorial staff for the entire edition .
The German Literature Archive Marbach owns a full range of BS.