MINERVA - magazine for self-defense and philosophy
MINERVA - magazine for self-defense and philosophy was a German-language alternative magazine for subcultural literature and philosophy. It was published from 1987 to 1991 in 16 editions, mainly in West Berlin .
founding
In 1986/87, in the course of a change of editorial team and its direction-changing renaming to “Journal for Self-Defense and Philosophy”, MINERVA changed from an “Institute postille for Classical Studies” at the Philosophical Seminar of the Free University of Berlin to an independent theory and literature magazine. In addition to literary experiments and new theoretical approaches, major interviews with contemporary thinkers such as Paul Virilio , Jean-François Lyotard , Dietmar Kamper gave MINERVA a special place in the avant-garde environment of the subcultural scene in West Berlin as a thinking zone. The editorial team consisted of a changing line-up, in addition to temporary editorial members such as Andreas Dury , Konradin Leiner alias QRT, Gregor Mirwa u. a. the author and playwright Paul M. Waschkau acted as a kind of "editor-in-chief". The MINERVA was not only available nationwide in Berlin bookshops, but also at special cult venues and cinemas. The edition was between 500 and 1500 copies.
Self-image and approach
Understanding literature and theory as a contribution to the exacerbation of conflicts was an essential part of the self-image in the channel dropping of the new media. In the essays and literary contributions, the keywords - political emergency - obscenity - betrayal - zapping - everyday life and science fiction - scaffold drammat - media mutations and machine phase study - brood of monsters - TRAKT and TCM analyzes (Texas Chainsaw Massker-Film; German blood court in Texas ) "Strategies of Writing" that strayed far from the mainstream of the theory scenes. Literary forms of exaggeration were understood as an attempt to stand up against the horizontal habit of the old and against the distortion of reality. The entry via the editorial of an issue often resembled a trend-setting manifesto .
Stations
The preoccupation with new media theories, the publication of dramatic texts, but also cultural manifestos and criticisms of the so-called OFF scene led to cross-genre invitations from the MINERVA group of authors. On the one hand, radio play compositions with MINERVA texts were broadcast on Radio 100 Berlin's then “Nachtflug” ; on the other hand, the group of authors around Paul M. Waschkau was several times guests in literary and dramatic performance nights in the then avant-garde RAMM / ZATA theater.
In the course of a self-initiated German-Russian literary exchange with the Leningrad group "Kamera Khraneninja" around Oleg Jurjew and Olga Martynova , MINERVA first traveled to Leningrad in September 1990. In November of the same year, the invitation to Berlin took place. At the end of 1991 MINERVA stopped its publication.
Web links
- Literature by and about MINERVA - magazine for self-defense and philosophy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Central directory of antiquarian books
- MINERVA - Journal for Self-Defense and Philosophy 1987–1991
- MINERVA at INVASOR.org
About MINERVA
- Magazine show , taz v. May 24, 1991