EXOTIC
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| description | German literary magazine |
| Area of Expertise | Comedy and literature |
| language | German |
| publishing company | EXOT / satyr |
| First edition | 2005 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Sold edition | 500 copies |
| editor | Francis Kirps, Anselm Neft , Lino Wirag, Tilman Strasser |
| Web link | exot-magazin.de |
| ISSN |
1861-6283 |
EXOTIC. Zeitschrift für Komische Literatur was a German-language, fully illustrated literary magazine that has been published in paperback format since 2005, similar to Der Rabe (1982-2001) . This makes EXOT the only magazine on the German-speaking book market that only publishes comic literature. No issues have appeared since issue 19 (end of 2015).
Origin and development
The EXOT magazine has its roots in the German-speaking author scene for poetry slam and reading stages and is the successor to the discontinued online magazine Hanebüchlein . The first editions were published by the authors Anselm Neft , Christian Bartel and Francis Kirps, later by Olaf Guercke and Ella Carina Werner ; Currently, the authors Lino Wirag and Tilman Strasser are responsible for the magazine alongside Neft and Kirps. Some issues of EXOT were published by Muschel Verlag in Cologne , and the magazine has been cooperating with Satyr Verlag in Berlin since 2012 .
The magazine
Content orientation
Under the motto "EXOT is more than an attitude towards life: It is a booklet", the magazine tries to depict the diversity of current comic literature. The focus is on short prose (for example tragicomic everyday stories or grotesques ), columnar texts and comic poetry (for example a wreath of sonnets whose subject matter is computer games ). In addition, the magazine is dedicated to the rediscovery of voluntarily or involuntarily comical authors who are no longer present on the book market ( e.g. Quirinus Kuhlmann , Hermann Harry Schmitz , Kurt Kusenberg and others). Comics and cartoons also appear in EXOT . In addition, the majority of the literary contributions are illustrated with specially made drawings by comic artists: between 30 and 50 authors and illustrators are involved in each edition.
Authors
Nationwide well-known authors such as Ahne , Katinka Buddenkotte , Dietmar Dath , Eugen Egner , Uli Hannemann , Falko Hennig , Marc-Uwe Kling , Alexander Nitzberg , André Schinkel , Xóchil A. Schütz , Andy Strauss , Volker Surmann , Cornelia Travnicek , Heiko published in EXOT Werning or Klaus Cäsar Zehrer as well as internationally known authors such as Thomas Ligotti . Regular contributors include cabaret artists such as Tilman Birr , Martin Betz and Wolfgang Lüchtrath, the lyricists Alex Dreppec , Michael Schönen and Johannes Witek, the blogger Madame Modeste and the Berlin reading stage artists Micha Ebeling, Kirsten Fuchs and Nils Heinrich , who are known for their appearances and book publications .
Illustrators
The cover of the 14th edition of EXOT was designed by British artist David Shrigley , the cover picture of the 16th edition comes from the award-winning illustration Nadia Budde .
Public attention
In memory of Robert Gernhardt , the editors called in 2006 to continue his popular Pauline letters ("Paulus wrote to the Apatschen: / You shouldn't clap after the sermon.") On the magazine's homepage and in this way gathered around 2000 new Pauline letters. The so-called Buergelmaschine, which was available on the magazine's website from 2007 to 2010, attracted particular attention : It generated an image description for any artist name and image title, which, through arbitrary abstractness, was used by Roger M. Buergel , the then curator of documenta , and other participants in the art industry neat jargon parodied . In 2010 the ironing machine had to be stopped for legal reasons. In 2008, EXOT awarded the “ Quirinus Kuhlmann Prize for Accidentally Funny Literature”. The first prize winner was the German writer Thomas Brussig , who was honored for his novel “Berliner Orgie”.
Web links
- Literature from and about EXOT in the catalog of the German National Library
- EXOTIC. Journal of comic literature
Reviews
Individual evidence
- ^ Lino Wirag: Computer games: a sonnet wreath. In: EXOT No. 7, p. 23ff
- ^ Robert Gernhardt: Wörtersee , 2nd edition, Frankfurt am Main 1984, p. 83. ISBN 3596132266 , ISBN 978-3596132263
- ^ Aram Lintzel in Literatures (edition 09.07)
- ↑ Matthias Heine: Talking about art? Read the Buergel machine! In: Die Welt , June 26, 2007 [1]