The White Raven (literary magazine)

The white raven
description	German literary magazine
publishing company	Rabenpresse, Berlin
First edition	1932
attitude	1934
Frequency of publication	bi-monthly
editor	Victor Otto Stomps

The white raven was a German literary magazine that was published from 1932 to 1934 by Victor Otto Stomps in his publishing house Rabenpresse in Berlin . It was subtitled "Magazine for Verse and Prose".

In 1932, initially three issues appeared at monthly intervals, from 1933 onwards the "white raven" appeared in double issues every two months.

Stomps was the editor of the first issue. Werner Plümicke was responsible for the other two issues from 1932 and the first double issue from 1933. The other issues from 1933 were dedicated to certain types of poetry: Werner Milch was the editor of issue 3/4 on "Magical Poetry", Horst Lange of issue 5/6 on "Landscape Poetry", Stomps of issue 7/8 on "Vagabonds." -Dichtung ”, Heinz Oskar Wuttig of issue 9/10 on“ Love poetry ”and Theodor Goswin of issue 11/12 on“ Religious poetry ”. Another issue appeared in 1934.

Regarding the program of the magazine, Stomps wrote in the first issue that the task of the “white raven” was not “to stand up for his publishing house 'die Rabenpresse' alone, he just as happy to do this within his framework for other publishers by reviewing and printing samples , through inclusion in the program of his lecture evenings, which should not only be accessible to the own authors. "

Horst Lange published the text "Die Ziegelei" under the pseudonym Konrad Ostendorfer in the 5/6 edition he had compiled. Other contributors include Gerda von Below , Werner Bergengruen , Richard Billinger , Max Herrmann-Neiße , Peter Huchel, Hermann Kasack , Gertrud Kolmar , Gustav Leuteritz , Eberhard Meckel , Walther G. Oschilewski and Paul Zech .