Ostragehege (magazine)

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description Journal of literature, art
Area of ​​Expertise Literature, art
language German
publishing company Literary arena e. V.
Headquarters Dresden
First edition October 1994
Frequency of publication quarterly
Sold edition 500 copies
(Publisher's information)
Widespread edition 250 copies (by subscription)
(Publisher's information)
Editor-in-chief Axel Helbig , Aron Koban, Ulf Großmann
editor Literary arena e. V.
Web link ostra-gehege.de
Article archive Front cover and table of contents. Special publications.
ISSN (print) 0947-1286

Ostragehege is a literary magazine , which u. a. is dedicated to the encounter between Central and Eastern European cultures and was published for the first time in 1994.

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Edition and cooperation

"Ostragehege" is being relocated in Dresden and is published quarterly with around 60 pages. Poetry , prose and essays by contemporary authors are printed . A unique selling point among the 450 literary magazines and newspapers in Germany is that "Ostragehege" had " printed translations from all Slavic languages " up to 2010 . The publication of each new issue of “Ostragehege” is accompanied by reading events with an author included in it. The magazine would also like to "[mirror] Dresden as a music, art and museum landscape."

The editor, LITERARISCHE ARENA e. V., cooperates with literary associations on a national and international level.

Rubrics

The section “Situation discussion - Young German-language poetry” is dedicated to the up-and-coming generation of authors (some with literary debut ): “Book publishers use the magazine as a truffle finder on the literary market.” In the “Interview” section, well-established writers have their say "Intensive questioning about her poetological and work backgrounds".

There are also reviews of recently published books. Each issue also contains several reproductions of works by a contemporary visual artist in the fields of graphics, painting and photography. a. Hartwig Ebersbach , Hubertus Giebe , Wolfgang E. HerbstSilesius , Andreas Hegewald , Gregor Kunz , Christian Lang , Arno Rink , Christine Schlegel and Gudrun Trendafilov. The literary critic Joachim Hildebrandt judged: "The connection between imagery and narration can be described as successful."

Contributions to contemporary music are also frequently printed ( e.g. on Sofia Gubaidulina , Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and George Crumb ), as well as contributions to the cultural and political reappraisal of the GDR past.

In the “Interview” column, for example, Karl Dedecius - “a European from Lodz ” - and Raoul Schrott had their say. The section “Poetry” featured poetological essays by Elke Erb , and the section “Speech” included a. a. documented a speech by Zsuzsanna Gahse . In addition, translations such as B. presented by Jorge Luis Borges , Federico García Lorca and César Vallejo .

Posts: Acquisition and Genres

According to the publisher, the magazine does not approach authors and does not award any orders, but uses around 80 of the approximately 1,500 articles it receives annually - all of them first publications. The editors select the submissions according to “quality criteria” (such as the “special tone, your own rhythm, the exclusivity of the message, the relationship between form and content, experiment and tradition”). Due to its size, only short dramatic texts and partly abbreviated prose texts are published in addition to poetry. The editorial team has deliberately avoided columnist and scientific literature.

Title "Ostragehege"

The title refers to the city of Dresden Ostragehege whose name in turn to the Slavic word ostrov - stromumflossenes Eiland points. The magazine therefore understands the title “Ostragehege” as a suitable metaphor for the situation of literature in the flow of neighboring language areas: in addition to the Sorbian, the Polish and Czech literary traditions . "The spectrum is now global."

history

The magazine by a group of writers, including writers from the Dresden was founded Peter Gehrisch and Norbert White , the from Plauen originating Utz Rachowski and the American author Kurt Vonnegut "honorary founding member".

“Ostragehege” initially focused on the encounter between Central and Eastern European literature, but now presents international literature worldwide.

Frequency of publication

Regular expenses

The regular editions have been published in different ways since the company was founded: initially varying between one to three times a year, and since 2000 quarterly (2014 with two editions).

Special publications

The magazine also publishes special publications that include: a. the European Literature Days in Lwówek Śląski (Löwenberg in Silesia) - also known as the Lwówek Śląski festivals - document, according to the anthologies

  1. It's time to change clothes! Voices from Poland. Poems (1998),
  2. The country of Ulro after the cinnamon shops closed (2000),
  3. Homecoming from abroad - Voices from the center of Europe (2002) and
  4. ORPHEUS gathers the spirits - voices from the center of Europe (2005).

Authors (selection)

The numerous authors who published in the regular editions or in the special publications include: a. Andreas Altmann , Artur Becker , Thomas Böhme , Nora Bossong , Michael Braun , Volker Braun , György Dalos , Róža Domašcyna , Kurt Drawert , Bettina Eberspächer , Elke Erb , Daniela Fischerová , Zsuzsanna Gahse , Peter Geist , Robert Gray , Uwe Grüning , Mila Haugová , Franz Hodjak , Jayne-Ann Igel , Oleg Jurjew , Björn Kuhligk , Ludvík Kundera , Günter Kunert , Thomas Kunst , Gregor Kunz , Kito Lorenc , Olga Martynova , László Márton , Undine Materni , Czesław Miłosz , Ingrid Mylo , György Petri. , Andreas Reimanni., , Lenka Reinerová , Dominik Riedo , Tadeusz Różewicz , Kathrin Schmidt , Raoul Schrott , Jaroslav Seifert , Andrzej Stasiuk , Wisława Szymborska , Uwe Tellkamp , Ljudmila Ulitzkaja , Jan Wagner , Theodor Weißenborn , Ron Winkler , Jens Wonneberger and Ulrich Zieger .

In the section "Situation discussion - Young German-language poetry" appeared u. a. Contributions by CRAUSS , Mara Genschel , Udo Grashoff , Dorothea Grünzweig , René Hamann , Herbert Hindringer , Hauke ​​Hückstädt , Adrian Kasnitz , Christian Lehnert , Steffen Popp , Monika Rinck , Hendrik Rost , Silke Scheuermann , Tom Schulz , Lutz Seiler , Ulf Stolterfoht , Anja Utler and Uljana Wolf , as well as authors from Switzerland ( Armin Senser ), Austria (Sonja Harter) and South Tyrol ( Sepp Mall ).

editorial staff

The editorial team is composed as follows:

  • Axel Helbig
  • Aron Koban
  • Patrick Wilden
  • Andreas Beier - picture editing, typesetting and design from No. 3 (II / 1995).

Former editors were:

Advisory Board

The advisory board of literary , art and musicologists as well as writers, appointed without a time limit , critically accompanies the edition and consists of the following members (as of July 2017):

advancement

The consciously ad-free magazine “Ostragehege” is funded by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony , the Saxon State Ministry of the Interior and the State Capital Dresden . There are also sponsors .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So since July 2000, except for 2014 every six months. See the list in the itemization in the section regular expenses .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Axel Helbig. In: Thomas Gärtner: Bridges between countries and the arts. “Ostragehege” is 20 years old - for editor Axel Helbig the magazine is something unique. In: DNN . October 20, 2014 (Thomas Gärtner in an interview with Axel Helbig).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Axel Helbig. In: Karin Großmann: A magic number. Ostragehege magazine is famous for discovery and celebrates a rare festival. In: SZ . October 21, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b Publisher's information on “Ostragehege”. In: ostra-gehege.de, accessed on May 8, 2016.
  5. ↑ “The name 'situation discussion' comes from the poetry anthology published by Kurt Drawert in 2001 at Suhrkamp. Drawert was also the first guest editor to start this section. ”Axel Helbig. In: Thomas Gärtner: Bridges between countries and the arts. “Ostragehege” is 20 years old - for editor Axel Helbig the magazine is something unique. In: DNN . October 20, 2014 (Thomas Gärtner in an interview with Axel Helbig).
  6. ↑ “We are very open to the latest poetry. This means that we are also very open to new challenges, and there will always be a problem with understanding poetry because poets are looking for new ways of expression, and the reader is confronted with new formal approaches, perhaps with new rhythms. That means: Reading requires a contribution, just as literature is something that stands between author and reader and absolutely needs the reader. "Axel Helbig. In: "Ostragehege" - Joachim Hildebrandt presents the Dresden magazine for literature and art, which has been published for fifteen years. (Editing and moderation: Harro Zimmermann ). In: Radio Bremen . Northwest Radio . Show literature time. April 5, 2009.
  7. ↑ a b c d See also Michael Braun: Zeitschriftenlese. Review of Ostragehege. No. 57 (I / 2010). In: SR KulturRadio 2 . April 13, 2010. Writing in: poetenladen.de. April 13, 2010, accessed May 8, 2016.
  8. ↑ a b Axel Helbig. In: "Ostragehege" - Joachim Hildebrandt presents the Dresden magazine for literature and art, which has been published for fifteen years. (Editing and moderation: Harro Zimmermann ). In: Radio Bremen . Northwest Radio . Show literature time. April 5, 2009 (with mention of the issue No. 52 [IV / 2008] and its graphic design by the Leipzig painter Mechthild Mansel).
  9. ↑ See, for example, the review by Wolfgang Schlott of Ines Geipel , Joachim Walther : Gesperrte Ablage. Suppressed literary history in East Germany 1945–1989. Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2015, ISBN 978-3-940357-50-2 . In: Ostragehege. No. 80 (II / 2016). - Cf. also the review by Fred Fischer : “When leaving the underground”? to Tom Pohlmann , Steffen Birnbaum (Ed.): Leaving the Underground: Dramaturgies and ironies for a successful uprising that lasted twenty years (= Edition Mischhaus ). Plöttner, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-938442-37-1 (anthology). In: Ostragehege. No. 55 (III / 2009). - See also Michael Braun: Zeitschriftenlese. Review of Ostragehege. No. 55 (III / 2009). In: SR KulturRadio 2 . November 24, 2009. Writing in: poetenladen.de. November 27, 2009, accessed May 8, 2016.
  10. ↑ Bettina Eberspächer: "then my thoughts bear fruit in your language" (conversation with Karl Dedecius). In: Ostragehege. No. 52 (IV / 2008).
  11. ↑ Cf. Karl Dedecius: A European from Lodz: Memories. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-518-41756-8 .
  12. ↑ Axel Helbig: Theogony , Iliad and Old Testament are based on the same myths . Conversation with Raoul Schrott. In: Ostragehege. No. 79 (I / 2016).
  13. ↑ Elke Erb: Sentences on poetology / speaking and seeing (short essays). In: Ostragehege. No. 57 (I / 2010).
  14. ↑ Zsuzsanna Gahse: It could work - Lucerne speech. In: Ostragehege. No. 79 (I / 2016).
  15. ↑ See Harold Alvarado Tenorio: Conversation with Jorge Luis Borges. In: Ostragehege. No. 70 (II / 2013).
  16. ↑ " Heinz Czechowski advocated the name" Ostragehege "because it stands for both art and literature." Axel Helbig. In: Thomas Gärtner: Bridges between countries and the arts. “Ostragehege” is 20 years old - for editor Axel Helbig the magazine is something unique. In: DNN . October 20, 2014 (Thomas Gärtner in an interview with Axel Helbig). - This sprawling Auengelände served Caspar David Friedrich as a motive for his painting The big preserve (about 1832). The American author and honorary founding member of the magazine, Kurt Vonnegut, was interned here as an American prisoner of war in World War II , which he processed in his novel Schlachthof 5 or The Children's Crusade .
  17. ↑ Orpheus gathers the spirits. Literary arena e. V., Dresden 2005, p. 212.
  18. ↑ See e.g. B. the rubric “NEW LYRIC FROM TAIWAN”. In: Ostragehege. No. 55 (III / 2009).
  19. ↑ The issues in detail:
    1st year: No. 1 (1994),
    2nd year: No. 2 (I / 1995), No. 3 (II / 1995),
    3rd year: No. 4 ( I / 1996), No. 5 (II / 1996), No. 6 (III / 1996), No. 7 (IV / 1996),
    4th year: No. 8 (I / 1997), No. 9 ( II / 1997), No. 10 (III / 1997),
    5th year: No. 11 (I / 1998), No. 12 (II / 1998), No. 13 (III / 1998),
    6th year : No. 14 (I / 1999), No. 15 (II / 1999), No. 16 (III / 1999),
    7th year: No. 17 (I / 2000), No. 18 (II / 2000) , No. 19 (III / 2000), No. 20 (IV / 2000),
    8th year: No. 21 (I / 2001), No. 22 (II / 2001), No. 23 (III / 2001) , No. 24 (IV / 2001),
    9th year: No. 25 (I / 2002), No. 26 (II / 2002), No. 27 (III / 2002), No. 28 (IV / 2002) ,
    10th year: No. 29 (I / 2003), No. 30 (II / 2003), No. 31 (III / 2003), No. 32 (IV / 2003),
    11th year: No. 33 (I / 2004), No. 34 (II / 2004), No. 35 (III / 2004), No. 36 (IV / 2004),
    12th year: No. 37 (I / 2005), No. 38 (II / 2005), No. 39 (III / 2005), No. 40 (IV / 2005),
    13th year: No. 41 (I / 2006), No. 42 (II / 2006), No. 43 (III / 2006), No. 44 (IV / 2006),
    14th year: No. 45 (I / 2007), No. 46 (II / 2007), No. 47 (III / 2007), No. 48 (IV / 2007),
    15. Vol. 49 (I / 2008), No. 50 (II / 2008), No. 51 (III / 2008), No. 52 (IV / 2008),
    16th year: No. 53 (I / 2009), No. 54 (II / 2009), No. 55 (III / 2009), No. 56 (IV / 2009),
    17th year: No. 57 (I / 2010), No. 58 (II / 2010), No. 59 (III / 2010), No. 60 (IV / 2010),
    Volume 18: No. 61 (I / 2011), No. 62 (II / 2011), No. 63 (III / 2011), No. 64 (IV / 2011),
    19th year: No. 65 (I / 2012), No. 66 (II / 2012), No. 67 (III / 2012), No. 68 (IV / 2012),
    20th year: No. 69 (I / 2013), No. 70 (II / 2013), No. 71 (III / 2013), No. 72 (IV / 2013),
    21st year: No. . 73 (I / 2014), No. 74 (II / 2014),
    22nd year: No. 75 (I / 2015), No. 76 (II / 2015), No. 77 (III / 2015), No. . 78 (IV / 2015),
    23rd year: No. 79 (I / 2016), No. 80 (II / 2016), No. 81 (III / 2016) ...
  20. ↑ It's time to change clothes! Voices from Poland. Poems (= Ostragehege. Special issue [1]) [published for the German-Polish Literature Days Dresden 2. – 5. July 1998]. Edited by Peter Gehrisch and Dieter Krause . Literary arena e. V., Dresden 1998, OCLC 315464690 (Polish poetry).
  21. ↑ The country of Ulro after the cinnamon shops closed - voices from Germany, Poland , the Czech Republic and Hungary (= Ostragehege. Special publication [2]). With graphics by Agata Ewa Kordecka and acrylic painting by Elke Ulrich. Edited by Peter Gehrisch and Axel Helbig. Sandstein, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-930382-48-2 (text partly German, partly Polish, partly Czech, partly Hungarian; - including reference to Czesław Miłosz's great essay "Das Land Ulro") .
  22. ↑ Returning from abroad - voices from the center of Europe (= Ostragehege. Special publication [3]). With graphics by Janusz Jaroszewski. Edited by Peter Gehrisch and Axel Helbig. Literary arena e. V., Dresden 2002, OCLC 76459548 (poetry, prose and essays by 69 authors from nine countries; - with first publications of early poems by Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz).
  23. ↑ ORPHEUS gathers the spirits - voices from the center of Europe (= Ostragehege. Special publication [4]). With pictures by Gudrun Höritzsch. Edited by Peter Gehrisch and Axel Helbig. Literary arena e. V., Dresden 2005, OCLC 699818280 (with a translation of the poem "Prayer", probably the last literary text by Czesław Miłosz).
  24. ↑ a b Ostragehege Editorial Issue 79. In: ostra-gehege.de, accessed on May 8, 2016.