Present (Innsbruck)

The present - magazine for a relaxed intellectual life was a cultural magazine for Austria and the surrounding area, published from 1989 to 1997 by the writer couple Stefanie Holzer and Walter Klier in Innsbruck .

The ambitiously made large-format magazine based on the model of the New York Review of Books presented a mixture of essays, detailed reviews and literary texts (however with the regular, only rarely and with more satirical intent, “no poems please” note). Klier and Holzer cultivated the unconventional, the surprising, the entertaining, and sometimes the little academically recognized. The magazine initially received a relatively broad media response, but suffered from its marginal location in relation to the centers of the cultural industry and from the minimal funding compared to more adapted competing products. It was ultimately given up by the editors out of excessive workload and self-exploitation. The magazine is part of the Austrian Literature Online project and can be accessed via Tirolensia nova . A follow-up product was the magazine Schreibkraft published by Werner Schandor .

literature

• Stefanie Holzer / Walter Klier: Essays from five years of the present 1989-1994 , Deuticke, Vienna 1995

Web links

• Stefanie Holzer and Walter Klier : Present. No. 25 April / May / June 1995. Edited by Stefanie Holzer and Walter Klier. ISBN 3-216-30139-7 .
• "Present" without a future. In: The time . Nº 44/1997. October 24, 1997.
• Journal copies in digitized form