Free German Association of Authors
The Free German Authors Association (FDA) is a professional organization for German-speaking authors. Its members are writers, copywriters, critics, librettists, other publishing artists and heirs to authors.
The FDA is a member of the German Literature Conference , indirectly, to the German Cultural involved, the cultural, social and economic concerns and interests of authors against elected representatives and the management of the Federal , the country and the European Union represents. The FDA is also involved in the German Literature Fund and the Artists' Social Fund .
history
The FDA emerged from the "Group of Independent Writers in the VS" formed in spring 1972 when conservative members of the Bavarian State Association did not want the Association of German Writers (VDS) to join the IG Druck und Papier, which is considered to be left-wing , and were subject to the election of the board. The separation, initially limited to Bavaria and co-initiated by Otto Zierer , was followed on February 23, 1973 by the establishment in Munich at the federal level as a union-independent authors' association. In 1974, the FDA occupied on the board of VG Wort three of the six for the belles lettres provided courses, including Luis Trenker and the FDA-President Prince Hubertus zu Lowenstein .
structure
Bureau
The federal association FDA is divided into a presidium made up of president, vice-president, treasurer, legal advisor, European commissioner, competition and youth commissioner, special commissioner for committee work and commissioner for public relations as well as in ten regional associations each with their own regional boards.
The following presidents have presided over the FDA since its inception:
- Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein (1973–1984),
- Nikolaus Lobkowicz (1985–1991),
- Angela Baroness von Brentano (1991–1993),
- Werner Ross (1993-1996),
- Hans Klein (1996),
- Klaus Jentsch (1997-2002),
- Ilse Nagelschmidt (2002-2018)
Admission criteria
The admission criteria are subject to the specifications of the respective regional associations. In general, however, “independent authors” and “self-publishers” (creators of self-publications ) can also become members of the FDA without having published books in regular public publishers .
literature
- Detlef Gojowy: Documentation for the 30th anniversary in 2003 and the events for the anniversary year. Pandion, Simmern 2004, ISBN 3-934524-49-4 .
National periodicals:
- For the author. FDA information sheet / FDA information. FDA, Munich, 1973–1985 (?)
- Wartburg documentation from the Free German Association of Authors. Bouvier, Bonn, since 1995.
- FDA current. Bulletin of the Free German Association of Authors. FDA, Sankt Augustin, 1999-2006.
- Journal. Annual magazine of the Free German Association of Authors. Salon Literatur-Verlag, Munich, since 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the German Literature Conference
- ↑ authors Gesplitter , in: The time of 5 May 1972 no. 20
- ^ Writer: End of a beautiful fiction , in: Der Spiegel, September 4, 1972
- ↑ Thomas Keiderling: Spirit, Law and Money: The VG Wort 1958-2008. Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 978-3-899494501 , p. 71.
- ↑ FDA: Become a member ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2017 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. , online at fda.de
