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Killroy Media ( spelling KILLROY media  ) is a small German publisher in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg, which has been publishing primarily contemporary German-language literature since 1995 . Part of the publishing program is assigned to the literary underground .

History and program

Since it was founded in 1995, the publishing activities have been largely led by the author, action and performance artist ("Yussuf M") and publisher Michael Schönauer , who is also the sole owner of the publisher , which operates in the legal form of a sole proprietorship . Before that, from 1984 to 1994 Schönauer had self-published the alternative literary magazine einblick - Das Magazin für Literatur und Kunst , which was dedicated to promoting literature in the 1990s and the last issues of which were published by Killroy Media until the magazine was discontinued in 1995 . Schönauer was also one of the pioneers of the Social Beat in 1993/1994 , played a key role in several nationwide literary festivals of the Social Beat scene and the slam poetry movement that was developing in parallel, and became one of the leading protagonists of the left-wing alternative literary scene of the 1990s Years. In addition, from 1994/1995 to 2003, Schönauer was managing director of the Asperger Autorwerkstatt e. V. in Asperg near Stuttgart , where Killroy Media was founded in 1995 as part of a new series of publications .

The publisher's name KILLROY media  ® has meanwhile been protected by the publisher as a word mark . The publishing house was based in Asperg from 1995 to 2013 and then moved to the neighboring district town of Ludwigsburg. There he settled in the Eglosheim district to the northwest of the core city of Ludwigsburg .

The publishing program includes u. a. Stories , novels and poetry , artist books and anthologies . The publisher carries out the following series of publications:

  • Killroy 10 + 1 Stories , with literary debuts by “young” authors; was started in 1998 as the publisher's new label
  • Killroy novel , with novels by u. a. Laabs Kowalski
  • Children's book , with so far one children's book with Yo Rühmer 's own illustrations
  • The magazine for literature and art (insight) , with the last two issues of the magazine and a special issue
  • Social Beat SLAM! Poetry , a three-volume anthology series on the literature and subculture of the social beat, with “scene-relevant research” and contributions by numerous authors
  • Killroy audio book , with so far one audio book by the artist and publisher Philipp Schiemann
  • Killroy artist book , with "Poems and Photographs" by Philipp Schiemann and Mailart works ("What is Social Beat?") By Boris Kerenski

The publisher is u. a. Regularly represented at literary festivals such as the Stuttgart Book Weeks and the Frankfurt Book Fair .

Authors and books

Numerous first works by German authors were published by the Killroy Media publishing house . The publisher's authors include a. Bernd Fischle , Kersten Flenter , Laabs Kowalski , Björn Ludwig , Yo Rühmer , Frank Salewski , Philipp Schiemann and Christian Wolter , as well as the publisher Michael Schönauer himself.

The publishing work of Killroy Media repeatedly attracted a lot of attention, for example with Björn Ludwig's once again flying , which was newly published in 2005 as part of the “carefully designed hardcover series 10 + 1 Stories ”, or with the letter novel Heimkehrt - Wäre he was published in 2012 but liked by Frank Salewski, whom the Westdeutsche Allgemeine (WA) counted among the "ten books" that the WA reviewer "noticed at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012". The book has now also been published in English as an e-book by the Bremen e-book publisher Strombuch . In addition, the publishing house Killroy Media brought out several foreign-language, "forgotten pearls" - according to Frank Milautzcki in a review - in German translation, such as the 2008 autobiographical book Der große Ausbruch aus Folsom Prison by US migrant worker and professional burglar Jack Black (1868-1933 ), which is his term and his memories of the uprising in the once notorious prison Folsom State prison processed, or 2010 Metta Victor (1831-1886) diary nem bad rascal , a classic of " rascals -literature" from the United States , the was newly translated into German by the literary translator Ní Gudix .

The publisher's three-volume anthology series Social Beat, SLAM! Poetry , which publisher Michael Schönauer and his brother Joachim Schönauer, who also worked for the publisher, published from 1997 to 2001, is characterized in the literary world as "authoritative and trend-setting" and from literary studies to the " comprehensive presentations on slam poetry and social beat literature in Germany ”.

literature

  • Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form. 2nd, expanded edition. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2383-9 , pp. 114, 119–122 (section publishers ), 168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See KILLROY media - publishing feature and further information on the publisher's website (www.killroy-media.de); Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ Information on the trademark  "KILLROY media" in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
  3. ↑ See information on the publisher's program on the publisher's website (www.killroy-media.de); Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  4. ↑ See Gabi Schaffner: Prolls & Trolls . Review in the online magazine Textem (www.textem.de) on May 27, 2005; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  5. ↑ See Ralf Stiftel: 64th Frankfurt Book Fair: Ten books that caught our eye >>  6. Frank Salewski . In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine (WA) of October 12, 2012; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  6. ↑ a b cf. Frank Milautzcki : A forgotten rascal survived . Review in the features section of the online literature network Fixpoetry (www.fixpoetry.com) on October 17, 2010; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  7. ↑ See pension notes on Jack Black: "The great escape from Folsom Prison" in the online magazine Perlentaucher ; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  8. ↑ Cf. Caroline Hartge (collaboration: Axel Klingenberg ): Social Beat-men (recapitulation) . In: KulturNetz , ver.di cultural magazine , issue 1/2013, pp. 4–5; PDF, 6.1 MB; Retrieved February 19, 2014.
  9. ↑ See Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form. 2nd, expanded edition. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2383-9 , p. 120.

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