The friend (2004-2006)

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The friend was a literary magazine of the Axel Springer AG . The publisher was Christian Kracht , editor-in-chief Eckhart Nickel . The editorial office was located in Kathmandu , Nepal .

The friend appeared every three months; there were a total of eight issues within two years. The first issue appeared on September 23, 2004, the last on June 15, 2006. The friend presented texts in great detail, as well as the art of drawing and obscure illustration. Essays, short stories, literary miniatures, columns, poems and extensive interviews were lined up in an amusing forum. Most of the texts appeared in German; now and then in English and French. The concept of Der Freund was down to the last detail - format, text types, teasers, layout, freedom of advertising, illustrations, etc. a. m. - an exact copy of the US American magazine The Believer, founded in 2003 .

The authors of Der Freund included Rem Koolhaas , Hans-Ulrich Obrist , Jonathan Safran Foer , Alain Robbe-Grillet , Julia Franck , Alban Nikolai Herbst , David Woodard , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Ingo Niermann , Momus , Albert Ostermaier , Rafael Horzon , Albert Hofmann , Reinhold Messner , Rezzo Schlauch , Wladimir Sorokin and Eduardo Kac . The illustrators included the Slovenian artist collective NSK and the Swiss artist duo Fischli & Weiss . Stories and poetry from Truman Capote to Allen Ginsberg were reprinted under license . Extensive interviews were conducted with, among others, David Lynch , Nam June Paik , Stanisław Lem and Albert Hofmann.

Der Freund received a lot of recognition for its design and front pages. In March 2006 the magazine received two awards: the bronze nail of the Art Directors Club in the “Magazine Design” category and the LeadAward in gold in the “Cover of the Year” category.

In 2007 the publisher started a new funding concept called SCOOP! (by Scoop ) for “creative lateral thinkers”. From this the magazine Humanglobaler Zufall was born.

During their stay in Kathmandu, Christian Kracht and Eckhart Nickel bought a used book every day for their editorial library. The resulting "Kathmandu Library" was exhibited in 2015/2016 in the temporary exhibition The Moving Book in the Modern Literature Museum in Marbach.

literature

  • Moritz Baßler : 'The Friend'. On the poetics and semiotics of dandysm at the beginning of the 21st century. In: Depressive dandies. Game forms of decadence in pop modernism. Edited by Alexandra Tacke and Björn Weyand. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20279-8 , pp. 199-217.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefanie Flamm: Books on the road. Selected dreams in Zeit Online from May 11, 2013.
  2. ^ The Moving Book - Voices on the Exhibitions. German Literature Archive Marbach, accessed on December 11, 2015 .