Christine Koch Society
The Christine Koch Society is the largest literary association in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is named after the writer Christine Koch , but its content covers the entire spectrum of literature.
development
The association was founded in 1993 as a society for the promotion of literature in the Sauerland in Schmallenberg . The company has since been located in Schmallenberg, where the second Westphalian poets' meeting took place years earlier . The founding members included the founding chairman Dietmar Rost , the literary scholar Wilhelm Gössmann , the authors Norbert Klaus Fuchs , Carola Matthiesen and Paul Tigges , the doctor and writer Michael Soeder and the Schmallenberg mayor Bernhard Halbe .
When it was founded, the company was closely associated with the museum in Holthausen . There was a certain degree of competition to the Esloher machine and local history museum and the Christine Koch archive connected to it, which had been built up since 1987. Both sides worked in parallel on the new edition of Christine Koch's works. While the Holthaus edition aimed at a larger audience and only wanted to bring Koch's most important Low German poems together, the Esloh edition aimed at a broad-based edition of works. In the meantime, both institutions have found cooperation and division of labor through personal links.
activities
The Christine Koch Society focuses on maintaining romantic and classical poetry, pre-March and Enlightenment, as well as regional literature and dialect. She also runs workshops for young people across Westphalia to promote young literature. Events and readings are held in churches, synagogues, castles and on ships. The society also maintains a Sauerland literature archive in Schmallenberg with around 2000 periodicals and books. There is also a close cooperation with the Arnsberg Literary Society .
Since 1994 the foundation has published 20 anthologies containing texts by over 150 contemporary authors.
The current chairman is Johann J. Claßen . The magazine Der Edelrabe appears periodically . The association has almost 300 members in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Works and editions
Anthologies (The Little Series)
- Jubilee band Heimat errlichtert inside and nowhere else. , Brilon 2014
- Cédric Müller (Ed.): Poesie am Rothaarsteig , WOLL-Verlag Schmallenberg 2013
- Volume 18: Land (an) sichten , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2011
- Volume 17: Spotkania - Encounters , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2010
- Volume 16: Christmas in Front of Your Eyes , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2009
- Volume 15: Arriving , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2008
- Volume 14: Wind-Wurf , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2007
- Volume 13: Zeitzeichen , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2006
- Volume 12: Mixed feelings , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2005
- Volume 11: Declarations of love , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2004
- Volume 10: ÜberGrenzen , Podszun Verlag GmbH, Brilon, 2003
- Volume 9: Contours , Grobbel Printing and Publishing, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 2002
- Volume 8: Dietmar Rost: Rote Blumenkatzen , Schlabach Verlag GmbH, Bad Berleburg, 2001
- Volume 7: lut'm Siuerlanne, wat de Luie thinks, wat se wellt un wat se maket. , Grobbel Printing and Publishing, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 2000
- Volume 6: On the trail of time , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1999
- Volume 5: Visiten , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1998
- Volume 4: Heimliches Bangen , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1997
- Volume 3: Angels are always somewhere else , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1996
- Volume 2: Written in the Wind , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1995
- Volume 1: Right to live in a landscape , Grobbel Druck und Verlag, Schmallenberg-Bad Fredeburg, 1994
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The largest North Rhine-Westphalian literary association turns 20 , DerWesten from August 22, 2013, accessed on November 17, 2014
- ↑ Homepage Christine Koch Society - The Society ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 17, 2014.
- ↑ Willy Knoppe: Everything is wuat. Orientation search in a regional language form. A literary pedagogical study of the values in Low German poetry by Christine Koch. Göttingen 2005, pp. 21-23.
- ↑ anthologies
- ↑ NRW literature on the net : Christine Koch Society for the Promotion of Literature in the Sauerland eV, accessed on November 17, 2014
