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die horen - magazine for literature, art and criticism

description German literary magazine
publishing company Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen
First edition 1955
Frequency of publication quarterly
Sold edition 4000 copies
( die-horen.de )
editor Jürgen Krätzer
Web link www.die-horen.de
ISSN (print) 0018-4942

die horen - magazine for literature, art and criticism (until 1983: magazine for literature, graphics and criticism ) is a quarterly literary magazine in Göttingen . It was founded in 1955 by Kurt Morawietz , from 1994 to 2011 its editor was Johann P. Tammen , since 2012 Jürgen Krätzer. It appears four times a year.

The advisory board includes Safiye Can , Christoph Hein , Katja Lange-Müller and Johann P. Tammen.

History and profile

The name of the magazine was based on the monthly Die Horen , which was launched by Friedrich Schiller in 1795 , whereby the three Greek goddesses Eunomia , Dike and Irene were meant, which stand for decency (Eunomia), justice (Dike) and peace (Irene) stood. “Die horen” was founded in 1955 by Kurt Morawietz in Hanover , edited from 1994 to 2011 by Johann P. Tammen, from 2012 to 2019 by Jürgen Krätzer. The magazine is published four times a year by Wallstein Verlag Göttingen. In addition to "open" volumes, there are thematic anthologies, also on foreign-language literatures.

The magazine has u. a. The aim is to discover young authors and to wrest important writers from oblivion. She devotes herself to prose and, to a remarkable extent, also to poetry , in some of her notebooks German, otherwise in magazines, each of a national literature little known in Germany (e.g. Iceland or Poland ). She repeatedly drew attention to persecuted writers, for example Greek writers during the military junta or Chinese writers .

The magazine, supported by the state of Lower Saxony and the city of Hanover, has already received several awards, including a. twice from the Börsenblatt for the German book trade with the Alfred Kerr Prize for literary criticism and in 2008 with the Culture Prize Silesia of the State of Lower Saxony .

Other precursors (except Schiller)

In the 20th century there were two other, briefly published magazines with the same title, which are neither legally nor economically connected to die horen :

  • Die Horen from 1925 to 1930, published by a publisher of the same name. A project by Hanns Martin Elster , a later National Socialist. From 1928 the co-editor was Wilhelm von Scholz .
  • The Horen was published in Vienna from 1903 to 1904 by a publisher of the same name. The editor was Hugo Schoeppl. Six issues are verifiable.

literature

  • Theo Breuer : The night when Oskar Pastior died. News from the territories of inexhaustibility. In: Pebbles & Chestnut. Of new poems and stories. Monograph on contemporary poetry and prose after 2000. Edition YE, Sistig / Eifel 2008, ISBN 978-3-87512-347-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig Germanist Jürgen Krätzer is the editor of the literary magazine die horen. In: lvz online. Leipziger Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, December 28, 2011, accessed on September 27, 2012 .