Edition The cheerful living room
The Edition The cheerful living room is an Austrian Literature Publishing .
History and conception
The publishing house was founded in 1986 in Vienna by Ilse Kilic and Fritz Widhalm . Right from the start, the focus of the edition was on so-called experimental literature , i.e. non-narration , visual and concrete poetry, texts with a clear focus on the formal area.
The first publication, entitled Book, presents anonymous texts by 40 authors. Using a numbering system, the reader can find out who wrote which text. The problem of the name as a trademark and as a perception-shaping component of the text should be discussed. Shortly afterwards, Important appeared. Kunst von Frauen a documentation of a symposium of the same name at the Graz Authors' Assembly with contributions by Friederike Mayröcker , Elfriede Gerstl , Heidi Pataki and others
Since then, numerous books have been published by primarily Austrian authors, including Franzobel , Christine Huber , Lisa Spalt , Peter Pessl and Petra Ganglbauer , but also visual poetry by the Russian authors Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay .
The publishing house is still trying to sound out various concepts of experimental literature.
The publisher also sees itself as part of a cultural network. Accordingly, great value is placed on friendly cooperation, joint projects with other small publishers and mutual support. Every year the publisher organizes the book show xxx-small with other Viennese small publishers such as Freeboard , Herbstpresse , Edition Exil , Edition zzoo , Edition ch and Edition Die Donau down .
Artist magazine
From 1990 to 2015, the artist magazine Living Room was published once or twice a year in the edition The Happy Living Room. Magazine for unusable texts and images . The allusion to the phrase magazine for useful texts and images , which the literary magazine Wespennest , which has been recognized for many years , seems obvious.
The authors published in the living room include Michael Arenz , Theo Breuer , Safiye Can , Dietmar Füssel , Erna Holleis , Christine Huber , Gerhard Jaschke , Jürgen O. Olbrich , Sophie Reyer , Günter Vallaster and many others. With the 50th edition (there are 25 special editions) the show was discontinued.
gallery
The publishing house in Vienna- Josefstadt has been running a living room gallery with a lucky pig museum in an old hairdressing salon since 2006 .