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Entwerter / Oder (own spelling: ENTWERTER / OR ) is a small-run, original graphic artist magazine . It combines contemporary art in the form of original graphics, original drawings , photographs, objets trouvés , copy and concept art , music (in sheet music and / or on MC and CD), films (DVD) and first-published texts, mostly by German-speaking authors. The text form ranges from visual poetry to lyric poetry to experimental prose and essays on art history.
history
Entwerter / Oder was founded by Uwe Warnke and Siegmar Körner in 1982 in East Berlin. Uwe Warnke has been the sole editor since 1984. It was the first of the illegally appearing artist magazines in eastern Germany to become a scene of the “magazine nonsense” (Chr. Tannert). The editions ranged from 4 to 100 copies. This artist magazine occupied a space within East German society that was maintained until the collapse in 1989. It took advantage of a loophole in the law that did not expressly prohibit working with artistic originals up to an edition of 99 copies. The typewriter was the "print medium" of the texts; Photographs were always hand prints; among other things, screen prints, lithographs and etchings can be found in printmaking.
Entwerter / Oder came from the East Berlin subculture and was part of the so-called complementary, counter or 2nd culture within the GDR.
39 issues and 9 special issues appeared up to 1990.
The Berlin bookbinder Hinrich Peters has been binding all editions since 1984.
The format is usually A4 (portrait format 21 × 29.7 cm). The volume of an issue can be 12 to 200 sheets. The edition is currently 33 copies. Around 20 authors and artists are featured in each issue. Each artist / author involved will receive a copy after completion. Thematic editions were introduced with No. 23. Since then, thematic and non-thematic editions have alternated. Special editions on photography, experimental literature and other art forms and topics have been around since 1984.
99 issues had been published by December 2014. There are also 28 special editions. Around 200 artists and authors from around 9 countries took part in Entwerter / Oder. In 2016 Entwerter / Oder 100 appeared as a 5-volume anniversary edition in a wooden box.
In an international context, the art project fits into the assemblings.
The special editions
In addition to the regular editions, special editions have been published since 1984. These can be designed and published by an artist or a group of artists on different topics and occasions. They also make it possible to react spontaneously to certain events.
- Special issue 1:… interim… GASOMETER ... or - on the demolition of the monument-protected gasometer covers, East Berlin 1984
- Special issue 2: Kunstsalon - LETZTER DEUTSCHER KUNSTSALON / Herbstsalon, East Berlin 1984
- Special issue 3: NEUE Entwerter V ersuchungen OR, East Berlin 1985
- Special issue 4: Photo special issue 1 - conceptual photography, ed. by Uwe Warnke and Kurt Buchwald, East Berlin 1987
- Special issue 5: Photo special issue 2 - cross-border projects, subjective and conceptual photography, ed. by Uwe Warnke and Kurt Buchwald, East Berlin 1988
- Special issue 6: uwe warnke - serial texts among others, East Berlin 1989
- Special issue 7: Photo special issue 3 - on so-called life photography, ed. by Uwe Warnke and Kurt Buchwald, East Berlin 1989
- Special issue 8: Photo special issue 4 - experimental work, ed. by Uwe Warnke and Kurt Buchwald, East Berlin 1990
- Special issue 9: The so-called KOMISCHE NUMMER (satirical works), East Berlin 1990
- Special issue 10: Uwe Warnke FOUND POETRY 1987 - 91, a conceptual work, Berlin 1991
- Special issue 11: PLG Friesländer - Das Inselbuch, Berlin 1994
- Special issue 12: Keyword: Sonnenschein, Ottfried Zielke, Klaus Zylla, Peter Thieme, Berlin 1994
- Special issue 13: Special photo issue 5 - on contemporary photography. ed. by Uwe Warnke and Kurt Buchwald, Berlin 1994
- Special issue 14: Valeri Scherstjanoi - scribentische ornamärze, Berlin 1995
- Special issue 15: pack / pack - on the wrapping of the Reichstag, Berlin 1995
- Special issue 16: Hartmut Andryczuk - An ethnic cleansing of all snowmen, Berlin 1995
- Special issue 17: Uwe Warnke - OST WEST / Exercise for four hands, Berlin 1996
- Special issue 18: Manuscript I - first collection of manuscripts / autographs, Berlin 1996
- Special issue 19: autographs II, Berlin 1999
- Special issue 20: autographs III, Berlin 2002
- Special issue 21: Ulrich Schlotmann - The joys of hunting, Berlin 2003
- Special issue 22: autographs IV, Berlin 2004
- Special issue 23: Farewell / Abschiede, ed. by Birger Jesch and Lutz Wohlrab, Berlin 2005
- Special issue 24: Ottfried Zielke / Uwe Warnke - "Tagesthemen", Berlin 2006
- Special issue 25: Zielke & Konsorten - On the 70th birthday of Ottfried Zielke, Berlin 2006
- Special issue 26: Farewell / Abschiede II, ed. by Birger Jesch & Lutz Wohlrab, Berlin 2007
- Special issue 27: edition f ..., Berlin 2009
- Special issue 28: Photo special issue 6 - see freely. 21 positions on contemporary photography. ed. by Uwe Warnke and Peter Thieme, Berlin 2014
Prices
- 1991 Victor Otto Stomps Prize from the city of Mainz to Uwe Warnke for validator / Oder
literature
- Erik Stephan (Ed.): Uwe warnke. verbatim . Burgk Castle Museum 1996