Literární noviny

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Literární noviny
Literární noviny logo.jpg
description Literary magazine
First edition 1927
Frequency of publication per month
Editor-in-chief Petr Bilek
editor Litmedia as
Web link literarky.cz

Literární noviny ( literary newspaper ), sometimes also Literární Listy ( literary sheets ) or Listy ( sheets ), is a traditional magazine of Czechoslovak (or Czech) writers, which has been published since 1927 with an eventful history and with occasional interruptions and bans. In the 1960s, it became a platform for a wide range of intellectual circles who prepared the reform process that would later become known as the Prague Spring .

Overview

The publication of the magazine can be divided into the following periods:

Literární noviny

  • 1927–1941: literary-critical culture journal of Czechoslovak writers
  • 1946–1951: Continuation of the publication after the war
  • 1952–1967: (up to No. 39) re-establishment as a weekly magazine of the reorganized writers' association
  • 1967 (No. 40–52): - 1968 (No. 1–5) takeover by the Ministry of Culture and Information

Literární listy

  • 1968 (No. 0-26 with several special editions): as a new magazine of the Writers' Union since February 1968 (with a special edition from August 1970)

Listy

  • 1968 (No. 1-8) - 1969 (No. 1-19): Journal of the Writers' Union

Literární noviny

  • newly founded since 1990

In addition, the exile magazine Listy , published by Jiří Pelikán in Rome , appeared in the period 1971-1990 , which is symbolically, ideally and partly also personally linked to the banned Prague magazine; After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, the editorial team moved to Prague in 1990 , where it still appears.

History of the magazine

The pre-war magazine Literární noviny , which appeared monthly, had the claim of a literary-critical cultural review; it was last published by the ELK - European Literature Club. Besides well-known Czech authors such as Vítězslav Nezval , Stanislav Kostka Neumann , Konstantin Biebl , Jan Neruda and others. v. a. Numerous translations were published, mainly by English, French and Russian authors ( Guillaume Apollinaire , Eduard Bagrickij , Paul Éluard , Sergej Jesenin , Michail Jurjewitsch Lermontow ).

After the magazine was temporarily banned during the protectorate period , namely from 1941 to 1945, it was re-published as a two-month magazine from 1946 to 1951, from 1949 under the direction of the publishing house of the SČSS. After the reorganization of the association, the magazine was re-established in 1952 while retaining the name (which was also the translation of the party-loyal Literaturnaja Gazeta in the USSR ). The new weekly magazine should defend the party line in the field of culture and literature. From the sixties, however, the magazine left the party line, it became more critical and was increasingly dedicated to socio-political issues. The simultaneously increasing popularity led to the fact that the magazine was withdrawn from the writers' association in September 1967 due to a decision by the Central Committee of the KPTsch and placed under the Ministry of Culture and Information. The name, the graphic design and the headings were retained, but the entire editorial staff was dismissed (and due to the lack of other editors, some employees of the army magazines were replaced. From February 1968, the name was changed to Kulturní noviny (in April 1968 then set).

At the same time, the writers' association's critical journal was reprinted. From February 1968, the association's chairman, Germanist and Kafka expert Eduard Goldstücker continued to run the magazine with the original editorial team under the name Literární listy . After the fall of the Prague Spring , the magazine was renamed Listy , which could appear until May 1969. The editors included Bohumil Hrabal , Milan Jungmann , Ivan Klíma , Milan Kundera , Vladimír Neff , Karel Kosík and others. a.

Since 1990 the magazine has appeared again in Prague under the name Literární noviny (first as a supplement, from 1992 as an independent magazine); In 2007 the Centrum pro média a demokracii (Center for Media and Democracy) in Brno took over the publishing of the magazine, in February 2009 the citizens' association Právo, solidarita a informace (Law, Solidarity and Information). The changed socio-political situation and the loss of the privilege of being able to act as a spokesman for the opposition against a regime that has been brought into line have also shaped the importance and appearance of the magazine. Since 1999, the interest in ecological issues has come to the fore, after the protagonist of ecological issues, Jakub Patočka , became the chief editor (from 1999 to 2009). From February 2009 to June 2010 Zbyněk Fiala was the editor-in-chief after the magazine changed publisher twice (first Právo eV, then Litmedia), after which Petr Bílek took over .

Roll in the Prague Spring

“ The Czechoslovak Writers' Union will now publish the weekly Literární listy because it prefers not to return to the old name, which has since lost its authority as a result of what it has been misused to do outside of the association's control. The entire editorial team of Literární noviny becomes the editorial staff of Literární listy. Les Lettres françaises warmly greet their new colleague. "This welcome was Aragon's magazine Les Lettres Françaises , the new magazine in Prague.

Although it was a literary magazine in terms of its self-image, - depending on the circumstances - the focus was on commenting on and promoting political events. She quickly reached a high level and took part in the discussions that led to and continued with the Prague Spring. Numerous political statements, petitions, comments from foreign press and other information appeared on the pages of the magazine. Among the best known texts that have been published here, which is part manifesto of 2,000 words of Ludvik Vaculik , Havel's reflections on an opposition party, Isaac Deutscher's Unfinished Revolution. 1917–1967 and other texts.

Sources and individual references

  • Listy (2) 1968-69, in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945), published by the Institute for Czech Literature (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR), slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/...docId=Id = 144 ... , Czech
  • Literární noviny (1) 1927-51, in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945), published by the Institute for Czech Literature (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR), slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/...docId= 151 ... , Czech
  • Literární noviny (2) 1952-67, in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945), published by the Institute for Czech Literature (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR), slovnikceskeliteratury.cz/...docId= 1286 , Czech
  • Literární noviny (3) 1967-68; Kulturní noviny, 1968, in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945), published by the Institute for Czech Literature (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR), slovnikceskeliteratury.cz / ... docId = 153 ... , Czech
  • Literární Listy, in: Slovník české literatury po roce 1945 (Dictionary of Czech Literature after 1945), published by the Institute for Czech Literature (Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR), slovnikceskeliteratury.cz / ... docId = 149 ... , Czech
  • Prague Spring and Autumn in the Testimony of Poets. Czech poetry from “Literární Listy” 1968 , translated and edited by Peter Lotar . Candelabra, Bern 1970 ( DNB 574909230 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compiled from archiv.ucl.cas.cz Literární noviny , archiv.ucl.cas.cz Literární Listy , archiv.ucl.cas.cz Listy , supplemented according to Historie Literárních novin [History of Literátní noviny], seminarky.cz (Czech) Retrieved August 27, 2009
  2. ↑ Listy (homepage) accessed August 27, 2009
  3. ↑ LITERÁRNÍ NOVINY (1) 1927-51, slovnikceskeliteratury.cz (website of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , Czech), accessed August 27, 2009
  4. ↑ Literární noviny , archiv.ucl.cas.cz accessed August 27, 2009
  5. ↑ Literární noviny , archiv.ucl.cas.cz accessed August 27, 2009
  6. ↑ Literární noviny (3) 1967-68; Kulturní noviny , 1968, slovnikceskeliteratury.cz (website of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , Czech) accessed August 27, 2009
  7. ↑ History Literárních novin [History of Literátní noviny] seminarky.cz (Czech) accessed 27 August 2009
  8. ↑ ct24.cz , report from the television station ct24.cz of May 14, 2009 (Czech) accessed August 27, 2009
  9. ↑ See January Čulík, Zbyněk Fiala přestal být šéfredaktorem Literárních novin (Zbyněk Fiala is no longer editor of Literární noviny) Britské Listy of 23 June 2010, online: blisty.cz/2010/6/23 ( Memento from June 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Announcement of the portal Týden.cz, tyden.cz / ... , Czech, accessed on June 15, 2012
  11. ↑ Imprint of Literární noviny, literarky.cz/kontakt , Czech, accessed on June 15, 2012
  12. ↑ Les Lettres françaises , No. 1219, January 31, 1968, cited above. from Literární listy , No. 0/1968, p. 1 archiv.ucl.cas.cz accessed on August 27, 2009
  13. ↑ a b Literární listy 1968 - 1968, slovnikceskeliteratury.cz (website of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences , Czech) accessed August 27, 2009