Boa Vista (magazine)

Temporary BOA VISTA editorial office during the 1970s, Eulenstrasse 27, Hamburg

Boa Vista [ ˈboɐ ˈѵɪʃʈɐ ] ( Portuguese for beautiful view ) was a German-language alternative literary magazine founded in 1974 by Daniel Dubbe and Bernd Cailloux , which was published until 1983, at times in Göttingen, at times in Hamburg.

Publication frequency / places of publication

The magazine came out at irregular intervals and had a total of ten issues. In 1973 it was published by Verlag Udo Breger, Göttingen, 1974–1980 in Edition Boa Vista, Hamburg, and 1981–1983 again by Verlag Udo Breger, Göttingen.

editor

The publication of the Boa Vista was shared alternately by Daniel Dubbe , Manfred Hennig, Natias Neutert and Peter Waldheim. Their distribution was initially limited to the university bookstores in both cities and to such nationally recognized local events such as B. the Hamburg "literary hubbub". Under the editorship of Natias Neutert, the magazine temporarily opened up beyond the Göttingen and Hamburg sphere of influence also to large cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich and at that time was even available through the distribution and mailing of two thousand one .

Goals and authors

With the adaptive recourse to Dada , Surrealism and based on Kurt Schwitters Merz (term of art) and the narrative forms of beat and cut-up literature, the magazine was completely oriented towards experimental poetry and prose. Her regular or temporary collaborators included the following writers and artists:

Bernd Cailloux Daniel Dubbe Frederike Frei Helmut Heissenbüttel Natias Neutert Peter Rühmkorf Helmut Salzinger

Jürgen Schnitzler Kiev Stingl Ralf Thenior Klaus Thiele-Dohrmann Walter Thielsch Peter Waldheim Charly Wüllner

effect

The otherwise rather difficult to measure effect of the Boa Vista can at least be read in the then influential cultural magazine Ulcus Molle Info , which invited its readers from the underground (culture) milieu to read with the following appeal: Boa Vista "should definitely be read!" a year later, Uwe M. Schneede invited the group under the title “BOA VISTA im Kunstverein” to the art weeks in Hamburg from July 20 to September 3, 1978 at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, where, in addition to the presentation of issues 1 to 6 a poetry reading was also offered. Authors of the inner circle of the loosely organized group took part in it:

Peter Waldheim: Your Green Hair / Poems Manfred Hennig: surveys before getting up / prose Natias Neutert : The poet stumbles outside / short messages to pedestrians Bernd Gail Cailloux: Two prose texts Kiev Stingl reads songs and poems Charly Wüllner : The radio program. The American trip and the lecture on the Teuton bomb. / A listening scene.

Web links

• Literature by and about Boa Vista in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See forewords in Boa Vista, Zeitschrift für Neue Literatur - Hamburg October 1974, Udo Breger Verlag, Göttingen, p. 5 (without pagination).
2. ↑ SCENE No. 12, Dec. 1977, p. 17.
3. ↑ Tages-Anzeiger in Zurich from July 22, 1978.
4. ↑ See German Bibliography. In: THE TIME. No. 41, Sept. 30, 1977, ditto DIE ZEIT. No. 43, Oct. 14, 1977 and Konkret. November 1977, p. 16.
5. ↑ See also the advertisement for Boa Vista, 5 in concrete. No. 11/1977.
6. ↑ Günter Guben in: ulcus molle info No. 7/8 1977, p. 101.
7. ↑ See event poster of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, July 1978.
8. ↑ See the program leaflet of the Kunstverein in Hamburg, July 1978.