The Berlin literary criticism
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| News and information about literary life | |
| Online magazine for literature ( ISSN 1613-6306 ) | |
| languages | German |
| operator | Martin Schrader |
| editorial staff | Martin Schrader |
| Registration | No |
| On-line | 2002 / Cessation of editorial work at the end of 2011 (currently active - but only archive texts have been offered since the end of 2011.) |
| http://www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de/ | |
The Berliner Literaturkritik (BLK) was a German literary magazine with a publishing and editorial office in Berlin . It existed from 2002 to 2011 and was last published online on the Internet on working days and in a print edition every quarter . The magazine brought news and information on the subject of literature , with literary criticism as a focus. The printed edition, which, among other things, contained a selection of reviews from the Internet edition, had been published at changing frequency since 2004 until it was discontinued . After the editorial work was discontinued at the end of 2011, the website has continued to this day, but only offers archive texts .
history
The online magazine was founded at the end of 2002 by journalist and editor ( Deutsche Welle ) Martin Schrader in Berlin- Wannsee , based in the former Villa Wild on the property at Am Sandwerder 1. In the villa building, which was built by Ernst Petzholtz in 1875 , both the publishing house and the editorial office are based. Schrader had the idea for this project for several years, albeit as a print version.
For cost reasons, he relocated the projected magazine to the Internet , with a changed concept: Originally intended as a pure “review organ”, Schrader chose other journalistic forms due to the possibilities and usual “formats” of the other medium . His goal now was to become a literary news agency and to offer reviews as well as “short and long news, essays , interviews ” - “focused on books , authors and publishers ”.
The Berlin literary criticism thus competed with other review platforms and the online services of the industry magazines as well as the online magazine Perlentaucher and the Internet newspaper Netzeitung, which was discontinued in 2009 . Initially, the online magazine was created by a three-person editorial team and several freelancers .
From May 2004 a printed edition was published, which initially appeared monthly, from 2007 every two months. The print edition was last published quarterly.
The online magazine and print edition were most recently created by a full editorial team geared towards the range of topics , which consisted of several editors and additional freelancers and interns. The online magazine could be used free of charge and the print edition was distributed free of charge, and it was financed through advertising . In addition, the content was “re-used”. The reviews were often taken over by the German Press Agency (dpa) and then offered to their customers from the newspaper market. In addition, the BLK also operated a bookstore in the form of an online bookshop that offered selected books and audio books , especially new publications and bestsellers .
Among the reviewers represented in the Berlin literary criticism were Michael Fisch , Susanna Gilbert-Sättele , Wilfried Mommert , Jan Röhnert , Martin Spieß and Roland H. Wiegenstein .
The editorial work was stopped at the end of 2011. Since then, only an online archive has been operated where previous reviews and previous editorial contributions can be accessed. The editorial office has meanwhile been relocated from Berlin to Hildesheim .
The online magazine
The Berlin literary criticism published current news and information "all about literary life" on its website. One of the main focuses was on reviews of new publications in fiction and non-fiction . In the non-fiction area, the areas of politics, philosophy, religion, art and culture as well as law, economics, nature and technology were covered. In addition, the online magazine published a weekday literature news service, selected reading samples from new books and a literature event calendar.
Access to the online magazine was possible without registration , while the retrieval of newsletters required a user account to be set up beforehand. Since the editorial work was discontinued at the end of 2011, the freely accessible website has only offered archive texts.
The print edition
| The Berlin literary criticism (print edition) |
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| description | Literary magazine with reviews |
| language | German |
| publishing company | The Berlin literary criticism (Germany) |
| First edition | May 2004 |
| attitude | End of 2011 |
| Frequency of publication | last 4 times a year |
| Widespread edition | last 13,000 free copies |
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| Editor-in-chief | Martin Schrader |
| editor | Martin Schrader |
| Web link | www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de |
| ISSN (print) | 1613-6292 |
The printed literary magazine Die Berliner Literaturkritik , which was published quarterly under the same name as the online magazine, contained literary news, reports about new books and about authors and publishers, as well as an event calendar. It also published selected reviews of the online magazine. According to the publisher's own statements, the booklet last appeared in a print run of 13,000 copies, three quarters of which were distributed free of charge in Berlin bookshops , libraries and cultural institutions. The remaining quarter of the print edition was distributed nationwide and was available at important literary venues throughout Germany.
The printed edition of the BLK is part of the archive holdings of the German National Library in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main as well as the collection and reference holdings of the Central and State Library in Berlin and the German Literature Archive in Marbach .
Web links
- The Berlin literary criticism - official website
- Nils Kahlefendt: Literary criticism on the net: From the new boom of an old genre . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur , May 20, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Nils Kahlefendt: literary criticism on the net: From the new boom of an old genre . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur from May 20, 2003; accessed on September 15, 2014.
- ↑ See information on the homepage and in the imprint of the website of the Berliner Literaturkritik , www.berlinerliteraturkritik.de; each accessed on September 15, 2014.
- ↑ See media data and ad price list 2009/2010 . (PDF; 156 kB) Berlin literary criticism ; accessed on September 15, 2014.
- ↑ See proof of ownership for the print edition of the Berliner Literaturkritik , ISSN 1613-6292 , at the German National Library ( DNB 026225611 ). (As of September 15, 2014.)