New Society for Literature

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The New Society for Literature e. V. Berlin (NGL) was founded in 1973 by Ingeborg Drewitz and other authors and was Berlin's largest association of authors.

history

Foundation approaches

At the suggestion of the Association of German Writers (VS) and under the leadership of the association's co-founder and at that time Deputy Chairwoman Ingeborg Drewitz , the New Society for Literature (NGL) was founded as a registered association in West Berlin and began operating in 1990/91 all of Berlin extended. Not least economic constraints had led to the founding of the NGL: after the VS had become part of a union, the possibility of direct funding of activities and events with readings by the Berlin Senate Department for Cultural Affairs ceased because this authority per se did not receive any funding Union can pay.

A new approach taken by the NGL at its inception was “both composition, ie. H. except authors take other professional and social groups, as well as the framework in which this could happen, namely the working and project groups. "In the inaugural answered Hannes Schwengersbauer ," an author who besides Ingeborg Drewitz u. a. was instrumental in promoting the founding of the NGL ", the question of the extent to which the new association should or should be political, with the fact that" the NGL is primarily about the principle of democratization and finding new interest groups. "

This democratic claim should also be expressed “in its entire internal structure”. The board members were elected in a broad, democratic process: three representatives each from the ranks of the NGL and the VS as well as one representative each from the working or project groups. This resulted in a board group of at least eleven, which in turn had the task of appointing a representative from each of its three groups, so that "the 'actual' board, the so-called executive committee, was composed of three people". The main task of this presidium was to represent the association externally, to declare itself responsible for the accounting of state grants and to endeavor to promote the proposals and initiatives from the entire board group. As “confirmed from many sides”, however, in the first few years the decision about what should or should not be implemented was largely left to Ingeborg Drewitz and Dieter Straub. This was mainly due to the fact that the Senate for Cultural Affairs only approved a permanent half-day position with 20 hours per week for an executive secretariat in 1979, which was only increased to 30 and 40 hours per week in 1985 and 1991; At the same time, the NGL was only given a noteworthy office from 1984 onwards.

deals

The NGL offered authors and other cultural institutions in Berlin and, after reunification, also in Brandenburg support in various forms. So they organized lectures, discussions, exhibitions, conferences and festivals like that of Horst-Dieter Klock founded and project from 1990 to 1999 led Märchentage Berlin , the International Berlin Comic Festival , readers show (Berlin festival by young authors) and the workshop for young writers .

It has also edited several anthologies and almanacs with contributions from its members and in other contexts. In addition, together with Hannes Schwenger, as initiator and honorary publishing director, she founded Edition Mariannenpresse in 1979 for her own editions and as a project sponsorship for writers and artists (later also with the participation of other sponsors) to realize u. a. Books, folders and text posters according to their ideas. Furthermore, in cooperation with the working group of small publishers in the Berlin Publishers and Booksellers Association, the NGL was the sponsor of the Berlin book exhibition "exlibris" and co-founder of the German-Polish poet steamer .

Dissolution of the NGL

The last reports on the NGL can be found on June 29, 2003 for the 30th anniversary of the association, at that time it still had “more than 400 members”, and in the mid-1990s even almost 700 members. The last updated version of the NGL homepage can be accessed via Wayback Machine on July 30, 2004 at www.ngl-berlin.de .

According to Dietger Pforte , the NGL was dissolved in 2004 because the association saw no more opportunities to act within the completely restructured literary life in Berlin after the fall of the Wall .

The Berlin Fairy Tale Days , initiated by the NGL in 1990, were started in 2004 by the Märchenland e. V. taken over and continued. The founders of the association are the former Berliner Märchentage NGL project manager Silke Fischer and the former NGL managing director Monika Panse, who have worked for the association since then.

organization

Presidia and boards

See the section on founding approaches, the number of people on the board or in the presidium fluctuated over the years indicated up to 1995. The delegates listed up to June 1980, from which the executive board was then elected, are listed here only once for the years 1973 to 1976. From 1980, only three to five board members with a “1. Chairman ”- sometimes with a high number of strokes or short intervals. After 1995, the former homepage at www.ngl-berlin.de for September 30, 2000 to June 30, 2004 could only be accessed via Wayback Machine and the other, presumably last, members of the Board of Management could be found there.

First presidium of the founding members:

Delegates elected to the board after the first ordinary general meeting (MV) see brackets:

The resulting executive committee:

  • December 19, 1973 to November 30, 1976: Manfred Busche, Ingeborg Drewitz, Dieter Straub

Thereupon the following executive presidiums from:

  • November 30, 1976: Ingeborg Drewitz, Elmar Engels, Hans Häußler
  • December 19, 1978: Ingeborg Drewitz, Elmar Engels, Dieter Straub
  • December 17, 1979: Ingeborg Drewitz, Elmar Engels, Gisela Kraft

The following board members each depend on:

  • June 9, 1980: Gisela Kraft (1st chairwoman), Tilman Lehnert, Gerda Szepansky
  • December 10, 1982: Anna Jonas (1st chairwoman and delegate of VS), Christiane Binder-Gasper , Rolf Dürr
  • December 12, 1983: Ulrich Goerdten (1st chairman), Nepomuk Ullmann , Paul Schuster (VS)
  • December 18, 1984: Ulrich Goerdten (1st chairman), Sabine Techel , Olav Münzberg (VS)
  • September 24, 1985: Olav Münzberg (1st chairman and delegate of VS), Sabine Techel, Peter Stephan
  • December 1, 1986: Olav Münzberg (1st chairman and delegate of VS), Claudio Lange , Merve Lowien
  • February 23, 1987: Olav Münzberg (1st chairman and delegate of the VS), Claudio Lange, Merve Lowien, Josef Peter Budek, Hans Häußler
  • October 14, 1987: Olav Münzberg (1st chairman and delegate of VS), Claudio Lange, Merve Lowien, Erika Stöppler, Rajvinder Singh
  • November 1, 1988: Hans Häußler (Acting 1st Chairman), Claudio Lange, Merve Lowien, Rajvinder Singh
  • March 9, 1989: Olav Münzberg (1st chairman and delegate of VS), Rajvinder Singh, Ursula Lehmer, Elsbeth de Roos, Wolfgang Fehse
  • December 14, 1989: Olav Münzberg (Acting 1st Chairman), Ursula Lehmer, Elsbeth de Roos
  • January 15, 1990: Ursula Lehmer (1st chairwoman), Elsbeth de Roos, Annegret Gollin , Hans Häußler, Olav Münzberg
  • April 8, 1991: Hans Häußler (acting chairman), Olaf G. Klein (confirmation of co-opting), Maja Wiens
  • February 3, 1992: Annegret Gollin (1st chairwoman), Hans Häußler, Olav Münzberg, Angelika Skoda, Henryk Bereska
  • February 1, 1993: Jüm Hinrich Volkmann (1st chairman), Ingeborg Görler, Hans Häußler, Detlev Kurzweg, Olav Münzberg
  • September 27, 1993 to ?: Bernd Erich Wöhrle (1st chairman), Ingeborg Görler, Hans Häußler, Olav Münzberg
  • March 21, 1995 to ?: Dorothee Neserke (optional)

Evidence from the former homepage at www.ngl-berlin.de of September 30, 2000 and June 30, 2004, presumably last board members:

  • 1996 to 1999: Rolf Dürr (CEO)
  • 2000 to 2004: Henry Kersting (CEO), Kathrin Külow (1st deputy), Rolf Dürr (2nd deputy)

Office

The following persons ran the office of the NGL on a voluntary basis:

  • 1973: Adalbert Norden
  • 1974: Gabriele Fuchs
  • 1975: Beate Becker
  • 1976: alternately Beate Becker and Gabriele Dörwald
  • 1977: alternately Gabriele Dörwald, Barbara Höpner and Ingrid Höpfner
  • 1978: Ingrid Höpfner

The following persons led the office of the NGL with 20 hours per week ( BAT V):

  • 1979: Mechthild Wilhelmi
  • 1982: Wilhelm Steffens
  • 1983: Bernd Schmidt (1982 and 1983 he also headed the Berlin book forum "ex libris")
  • 1984: Ernest Wichner

The following persons led the office of the NGL with 30 hours per week ( BAT V):

The following person carried out the NGL office with 40 hours per week ( BAT V, from January 1991 BAT IV):

  • 1990: Hedi Schulitz

The following persons led the office of the NGL with 40 hours per week ( BAT IV):

  • 1992: Anna Tüne
  • 1993: Isolde Arnold
  • from Sept. 1994 to ?: Barbara Fischer

Evidence from the former homepage at www.ngl-berlin.de from September 30, 2000 and June 30, 2004, presumably last employee of the office:

  • from 1998 to June 2004 (?): Mareike Röper (managing director: program management), Monika Panse (managing director: finances, human resources; since 2004 (as of September 2019) managing director of the Märchenland e.V. association )
  • from 1998 to max. 2002: Kerstin Faude (head of the NGL radio play workshop), Dietrich Fobbe (project manager of the NGL youth literature network NEW VOICES)
  • from January 1, 2000 to 2004: Silke Fischer (NGL project manager of the Berliner Märchentage , then taking over the project in the Märchenland eV association founded by her and Monika Panse in 2004 , of which she is director to this day (as of September 2019) )

Other members (if known)

Releases (according to DNB)

The book titles listed here are taken from the information provided by the German National Library . In addition, there were probably several book publications that are not listed in the DNB.

Fiction

The following publications are published by other publishers:

  • Poetry non stop - poems in Berlin . Readings 1974 a. 1975. NGL annual edition 1st Einhorn-Presse Book 10th Einhorn-Presse, Berlin 1975.
  • Isolde Arnold (Red.): Writing how we want to live - an almanac . NGL, Berlin 1981. ISBN 3-922510-07-8 .
  • Hans Ulrich Hirschfelder (Red.): Berlin allowance - poems from d. Province . Anthology d. Poetry working group in d. Neue Ges. Für Literatur e. V., Berlin 1982
  • Hedi Schulitz (Ed.): Stay - Collages of a City . The Arabic Book , Berlin 1988.
  • Olav Münzberg , Bernd Erich Wöhrle (Hrsg.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . Argon Verlag , Berlin 1995 ISBN 978-3-87024-328-9 .
  • Olav Münzberg: Breaks and transitions - poems and prose from 23 countries . Add. with a workshop of cultures in Berlin. Jovis, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-931321-01-0 .
  • Hedi Schulitz (Ed. And Red.), Andrej Jendrusch (Red.): The wish well - fairy tale book of Berlin children . With a foreword and an epilogue by Nina Korn and Horst-Dieter Klock . Edition Dodo, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-934351-02-6 .

To events

  • First Congress of European Writers' Organizations - Berlin-West . Kongresshalle, February 11-13, 1977. Special edition 1977. European Ideas Publishing House, Berlin 1977
  • Barüske, Heinz (Ed.): Land from the Sea - on the culture of Iceland and the Faroe Islands . An event of the New Society for Literature e. V. (NGL) Berlin from July 8th - 12th, 1980 in the State Library / Prussian Cultural Heritage. Emil Thomsen, Tórshavn 1980.
  • Ekhard Haack (Ed. And Red.): Materials about Berlin as a city of literature . This breviary was published for the Berlin Book Forum - Ex Libris '83 - in d. Akad. D. Arts, from 28.10. - November 6, 1983. NGL, Berlin 1983. ISBN 3-922510-08-6 .

literature

  • Olav Münzberg , Bernd Erich Wöhrle (Hrsg.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag, Berlin 1995 ISBN 978-3-87024-328-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 30 years of the Neue Gesellschaft für Literatur e. V. Berlin . presseportal.de
  2. ↑ a b Hedi Schulitz: New Society for Literature - What it was and what it wants . In: Olav Münzberg, Bernd Erich Wöhrle (Hrsg.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 138-146.
  3. ↑ a b See Bernd Heimberger : To all, all, all! Review of Arn Aske u. a. (Ed.): The desert life . New Society for Literature, Berlin 1996. In: Bookmarks of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein , 1996
  4. ↑ Edition Mariannenpresse - exhibition from the holdings of the University Library of the Free University of Berlin November 13, 2013 - January 6, 2014 (PDF) Information from the University Library of the Free University of Berlin with an extensive list of works from the Edition Mariannenpresse in the order of their appearance, 4 pages
  5. ^ New Society for Literature ( Memento of July 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), last updated, accessible homepage of the NGL, ngl-berlin.de
  6. ^ According to a communication in October 2019 from Dietger Pforte , former head (1977–1996) of the literature department in the Berlin Senate Cultural Administration
  7. ↑ 6. Chronicles 1973–1995 - a: Board members , s. P. 240–243 in: Olav Münzberg, Bernd Erich Wöhrle (eds.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag, Berlin 1995.
  8. ↑ a b c Board of Directors . ( Memento from September 30, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) ngl-berlin.de/vorstand
  9. ↑ a b Board of Directors . ( Memento from June 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) ngl-berlin.de/vorstand
  10. ↑ 6. Chronicles 1973–1995 - b: Office , s. P. 243 in: Olav Münzberg, Bernd Erich Wöhrle (ed.): Literatur vor Ort - a literary-documentary anthology about the New Society for Literature Berlin . New Society for Literature (ed.). Argon Verlag, Berlin 1995.
  11. ↑ a b About Us . Website of the Berlin Fairy Tale Days
  12. ↑ a b c office . ( Memento from September 30, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) ngl-berlin.de
  13. ↑ a b Management . ( Memento from June 3, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) ngl-berlin.de
  14. ↑ Office . ( Memento of February 21, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) ngl-berlin.de; Kerstin Faude and Dietrich Fobbe are no longer listed here, but other assistants only listed here