Fantastic authors network

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Fantastic Authors Network eV
(PAN)
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purpose Association for the promotion of German-language fantasy
Chair: Diana Human
Establishment date: 15th November 2015
Number of members: > 200
Seat : Viersen
Website: www.phantastik-autoren.net

The Fantastic Authors Network eV ( PAN for short ) is a non-profit association for the promotion of the literary genre of German-language fantasy . It is a member association of the German Literature Conference .

Organization and membership

The association now has 184 full members and 21 junior members (as of July 21, 2019) from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to being of legal age, regular membership requires at least two fantastic fictional publications that are originally published in German, and since 2017 also self-publications . Anyone can submit an application for junior membership. In addition, there are 27 sustaining members. B. Publishers belong. A committee, consisting of the board and other full members, decides on admission. The association is based in Viersen .

With Syndikat , Mörderische Schwestern and DeLiA, the network is one of the authors' associations in Germany dedicated to a certain genre.

history

Thirteen authors who write German-language fantasy, including Diana Menschig , Lena Falkenhagen , Bernhard Hennen , Kai Meyer , Ju Honisch , Carsten Steenbergen and Judith C. Vogt , founded the Phantastik-Autor-Netzwerk (PAN) eV association on November 15th 2015 in Cologne. Two other founding members were a bookseller and a lecturer . One of the triggers, according to Menschig, was a conflict between the Bonnier publishing group and Amazon , in which the book sales of the publishing group were manipulated and boycotted by Amazon. The Syndicate crime authors' association positioned itself with an open letter. Fantastic authors were barely visible in the dispute, but equally affected. Therefore, the fantastic genre should be given an institution that gives fantastic literature and its authors a voice as an association of authors, both on the market and in the literary scene.

From the beginning, the PAN branch meetings of Fantastik were planned as a platform for exchange both within the network and beyond. In 2017, VDI / VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH was won as a sponsor for the industry meeting in Berlin and was represented with a lecture and workshops. In the same year, through a discussion with Olaf Zimmermann , Managing Director of the German Cultural Council , PAN wanted to get more involved in cultural and political events. The application and admission to the German Literature Conference, the Literature section of the German Cultural Council, took place in April 2018. PAN is the first and so far only association within the association that is dedicated to a certain genre (as of July 24, 2019).

PAN branch meeting of the fantastic

Since 2016, the association has organized the PAN branch meeting of Fantastik once a year . There are also lectures, interviews, panel discussions and workshops with contributions from the literary world and fantasy, but also from non-subject areas such as economics, medicine or archeology. Previous topics were:

  • The German-language fantasy: cultural property - or is it just good? (2016)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to Fantasticism - Crossing Content and Media Boundaries (2017)
  • Do androids dream of freedom? About society and politics in fantasy (2018)
  • One world is not enough - world building and social plans in fantasy (2019)

For the industry meetings in 2017 and 2018, special prints were published in cooperation with the publishing house Martin Ellermeier in the fantasy and adventure game magazine Mephisto , which were included in the issue numbers 64 and 68. The sixteen-page extra booklets Fantastic Lebenselexier (2017) and Do Androids Dream of Freedom? (2018) thematically address the content of the respective industry meeting.

The association's annual general meeting takes place as part of the industry meeting.

Projects and activities (excerpt)

  • In October 2016, PAN participated in the network author rights project initiated by Nina George .
  • In 2017, PAN took over the Fantastik Lounge at the Leipzig Book Fair, which had been in charge of WerkZeugs Kreativ KG for many years . The lounge is both a retreat for authors and an opportunity to exchange ideas with the fantastic specialist audience. The lounge area will be made available to PAN by the book fair until 2019.
  • In October 2017, PAN, together with Literaturschock , initiated the Fantastic Best List , a monthly best list with the 10 best new publications from the different subgenres of Fantastic. The project was later handed over to Literaturschock.
  • Since the beginning of 2018, PAN has been organizing tenders for short stories for tor-online.de , the online presence of Fischer Tor , and also provides the jury for this. A PAN story of the month appears cyclically .
  • On October 12, 2018, PAN organized a two-hour science fiction lounge with the Frankfurt Book Fair on trade visitor day. The discussion was about women in science fiction literature. The occasion was the death of Ursula K. Le Guin .
  • As part of the fourth Fantastik industry meeting, PAN held a reading on April 25, 2019 in Cologne under the title 1. Fantastic Reading Night with eight of its members, including CE Bernhard, Stefanie Hasse , Bernhard Hennen, Tommy Krappweis and Kai Meyer.
  • After the Leipzig Book Fair 2020 could not take place due to the corona virus, PAN got involved in online campaigns, especially to support small publishers and authors. With #bücherhamstern an action was started that caused a sensation nationally and internationally.
  • The Fantastik authors network has been one of the main sponsors of the Fantastik Literature Prize Seraph since 2020 . As a result, every category of the award has been endowed since 2020. Due to the cancellation of the Leipzig Book Fair, the 2020 award ceremony took place in a Twitch livestream, moderated by Tommy Krappweis .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of members on the club website . Retrieved July 21, 2019
  2. ^ Members of the German Literature Conference , accessed on July 21, 2019
  3. ^ Wieland Freund: Prolegomena: The company . April 29, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed May 20, 2019]).
  4. ↑ PAN eV is the first authors' association to take self-publishers on articles by Teilzeithelden from June 5, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2019
  5. ^ Articles of Association of the Association
  6. ↑ Annika Weber: German authors found an association to strengthen their own genre. (PDF) January 7, 2015, accessed May 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ New author network founded Börsenblatt newsletter of January 13, 2016, accessed on May 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Unite genre interests. January 12, 2016, accessed on May 20, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Frank Patalong: Supporters launch pro-Amazon petition. In: manager magazin. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  10. ^ Lisa Hegemann: German authors rebel: uprising against the Amazon dictate. In: Handelsblatt. Retrieved July 23, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Christin Fetzer: Networks and Power Problems. In: Leipziger Lerche 44. Retrieved on July 23, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Wiebke Ehret: Science meets fiction: VDI / VDE-IT supports artists with visions of the future. In: Information Service Science. April 18, 2017. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  13. ^ The Fantastic Authors Network joins the German Literature Conference. Retrieved on July 24, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ PAN press archive PAN press archive, accessed on May 3, 2019
  15. ↑ Industry meeting Die Vierte Teilzeithelden Online, accessed on July 20, 2019
  16. ↑ Report of the Fantastic Couch , accessed on July 22, 2019
  17. ^ Mephisto issue 64 , accessed on July 21, 2019
  18. ^ Mephisto issue 68 , accessed on July 21, 2019
  19. ↑ PAN industry event archive , accessed on July 20, 2019
  20. ↑ NETWORK AUTHORITY RIGHTS founded ver.di press release of October 14, 2016, accessed on May 3, 2019
  21. ↑ Börsenblatt: Uprising of fantasy authors from September 14, 2016. Accessed on July 21, 2019
  22. ↑ Fantastic prospects press release of the Leipzig Book Fair from December 6, 2016, accessed on May 3, 2019.
  23. ↑ PAN starts new Fantastik best list Börsenblatt on October 6, 2017, accessed on July 22, 2019.
  24. ↑ Fantastic Best List Author World of October 16, 2017, accessed on July 22, 2019.
  25. ↑ PAN story of the month: The jury presentation by the PAN jury on April 13, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2019.
  26. ↑ The future: Think Ursula . In: Tor online from October 10, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2019
  27. ↑ Markus Mäurer: News: The Frankfurt Book Fair is dedicated to science fiction
  28. ^ Yvonne Fitzenberger: First science fiction lounge “Think Ursula” at the book fair. In: OP Online. October 13, 2018, accessed July 21, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Review of the Think Ursula press release from Fischer Tor on November 22, 2018, accessed on May 3, 2019
  30. ↑ Christopher Dröge: Reading tour in the Mediapark: "Fantastic authors network" invited to the magical night. In: rundschau-online.de. Kölnische Rundschau , April 28, 2019, accessed on May 20, 2019 (German).
  31. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 4, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 .