Fiction (model project)

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Fiction (model project ) is a project that examines the changes that digitization brings about for sophisticated literature. Fiktion was founded in early 2013 and first went public in September 2013. Fiktion develops event formats in cooperation with the House of World Cultures , researches new copyright issues and cooperates with reading research. The model project is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation with 240,000 euros.

Different approaches to the project

The focus is on the publication of German and English-language literature that does not meet common market criteria. The titles are available free of charge. All titles appear simultaneously in German and English, are presented and advertised internationally. Making yourself heard in the debate about changes in copyright law from an author's perspective is another important concern of the project. Together with the Law Clinic Internet Law of the Humboldt University in Berlin , under the direction of Katharina de la Durantaye , copyright issues are examined. In March 2014 a congress on literature in the digital age was held. A new digital reading format is also to be developed that is specially designed for reading demanding texts and is to be offered open source. In this regard, there is cooperation with the Institute for Book Studies at Gutenberg University Mainz .

Club fiction eV and Literary Advisory Board

The project is run by an association called Fiktion eV , headed by founders Mathias Gatza and Ingo Niermann . You take on the project management of the program. The communication project management is in the hands of Henriette Gallus, the organization project management is in the hands of Julia Stoff. The English-speaking editor is Alexander Scrimgeour.

German-speaking and international authors belong to the literary advisory board. The advisory board recommends texts and advocates them publicly. It emerged from intensive workshops in 2013. All members support the program management with text recommendations and commitment on other levels. The literary advisory board so far includes Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Douglas Coupland , Katharina Hacker , Elfriede Jelinek , Tom McCarthy , Ben Marcus , Ou Ning, Thomas Pletzinger , Stephan Porombka , Verena Rossbacher and Sabine Scholl .

In a lecture in November 2013 at the E: PUBLISH Congress in Berlin, Katharina Hacker spoke publicly about fiction and her position on the new developments in the publishing industry:

“The authors who support fiction reject the appeal We are the authors . We are not worried that content could be disseminated on the Internet for free - bypassing us - but that our way of writing and thinking will be marginalized, as a result of it appearing both economically and culturally so remote that we do not get involved in our work can live more. "

- Katharina Hacker : From the manuscript for the lecture at the congress

Hacker thus introduced a new perspective on fear-ridden digitization.

declaration

In the spring of 2013, Fiktion organized several workshops in the House of World Cultures in which publishing experts discussed Internet law with authors and the Humboldt Law Clinic about the changes in the writing and publishing of “literature that requires special concentration”. This resulted in a declaration that summarized the position of these authors at that point in time. With this declaration, Fiktion presented itself to the public for the first time in September 2013.

First program

In autumn 2014, Fiktion presented its first program in the House of World Cultures . The two titles, which appeared simultaneously in German and English, are available free of charge on the project's website.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Heimann: Interview with Mathias Gatza about the model project "Fiction": "We are in a pioneering era". In: boersenblatt.net. November 8, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  2. ^ Till Spielmann: Mathias Gatza on his digital model project fiction. In: buchreport.de. November 7, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Matthias Hell: Buch / Handel 2020: When writers take initiative. In: excitingcommerce.de. November 14, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Fiction: On Digital Change ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ a b c d We. ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: fiction.cc , accessed October 1, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fiktion.cc
  6. ↑ workspace General and Neurocognitive Psychology at the Free University of Berlin (Arthur M. Jacobs), Prof. Dr. Arthur M. Jacobs
  7. ↑ http://fiktion.cc/ueber-uns/
  8. ^ Federal Cultural Foundation - Fiktion. (No longer available online.) In: kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on October 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de
  9. ^ Elke Heinemann: Texts from friends and friends of friends. Pleasure and the burden of concentration: The e-book project “Fiktion” aims to pave the way for sophisticated literature to become digital and relies on a new display technique - with mixed success , faz.net , July 2, 2015
  10. ↑ Sascha Josuweit: It's so nice to hear from Proust. In: taz.de. March 26, 2014, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  11. ↑ http://fiktion.cc/ueber-uns/
  12. ^ A b Leonhard Dobusch: Two keynotes, two worlds: Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Katharina Hacker on digital books. In: netzpolitik.org. November 21, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Keynote Lecture: Fiction. From: fiction.cc , November 7, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014.
  14. ↑ Sabine Bürger: Into the future without hocus-pocus. In: derstandard.at. November 23, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  15. ↑ declaration. From: fiktion.cc, September 2013, accessed October 1, 2014.
  16. ↑ Wolfgang Tischer: E-Book and Copyright: Have the Authors finally woke up? In: perlentaucher.de. September 12, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Writers get mobile on the digital playing field. In: buchreport.de. September 9, 2013, accessed October 1, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Free e-books a new project. In: deutschlandradiokultur.de. September 25, 2014, accessed June 24, 2015 .