Rhinozeros (literary magazine)

Rhinozeros was an experimental literary magazine that appeared between 1960 and 1965 in the young Federal Republic of Germany.

Story and editor

The magazine was founded by Klaus-Peter Dienst and Rolf-Gunter Dienst in Itzehoe . The two brothers published a total of ten issues themselves. The booklets had a format of 145 × 205 mm (approximately DIN A5 ), the size of the booklet was between 24 and 36 pages. Rolf-Gunter Dienst edited the texts and corresponded with the authors, Klaus-Peter Dienst calligraphed and edited the texts.

The spelling varied between RHINOZeros, RhinozEROS and RhinozEros. On the cover of the third issue they call their RhinozEROS a “youth magazine” and in the subtitle “Calligrammatic & logographic literature review”.

"Our RhinozEROS sees itself as a 'calligrammatic literature review', which is graphically and logically justified by the Dienst brothers from Itzehoe and published in an episodic manner."

- Klaus-Peter Dienst : ABC weapons for poets

content

The magazine published first publications by partly unknown young German and internationally known writers. These included Hans Arp , Samuel Beckett , Horst Bienek , Elisabeth Borchers , William S. Burroughs , Jean Cocteau , Reinhard Döhl , Jean Dubuffet , Jean Genet , Allen Ginsberg , Peter Härtling , Katja Hajek , Raoul Hausmann , Walter Höllerer , Henry Miller , Franz Mon , Andreas Okopenko , Ezra Pound , Klaus Roehler , Peter Rühmkorf , Ror Wolf , Dieter Wellershoff , Dieter E. Zimmer u. v. a. All editions contain advertisements from various publishers and galleries designed by Klaus-Peter Dienst (including DuMont Verlag Cologne, Rowohlt Verlag Reinbek, Walter Verlag Olten). You must have helped to fund the magazine.

Each of the ten editions is characterized by a “special graphic” “as an interpretation and textual criticism, in that we literally stage literature without being ordered by official philological grace”. The "graphically locked and open-minded texts" are intended to encourage the reader to read spelling again - this is the intention of the editors.

Front page of RhinozEROS 1

effect

The name Klaus-Peter Dienst has been almost forgotten today, and with it his graphic work. His largely linguistically autonomous word landscapes in the rhinoceros notebooks are just as far removed from calligraphy as they are from typography. They are visual texts that can be located in a border genre between art and poetry. For example, the publisher Kyklos Presse lists Klaus-Peter Dienst in three of five departments as artists in the narrow portrait-format catalog for the First Literary Whitsun Fair in Frankfurt am Main in 1963: in the categories "books", "portfolios and art prints" and "magazines". But Klaus-Peter Dienst was also known among the concrete poets of the 1960s and 1970s. His graphical sheets and books appear in catalogs in the context of the concrete and visual poetry of those years. The appreciation that was shown for him and his work is revealed in publications such as movens (1960), das kunstwerk (1963), Schrift und Bild (1963), phenomenal art (1967), letters and picture alphabets (1970) or posthumously in text as a figure (1987) and literally literally literally literally (1987).

Publications

Klaus-Peter Dienst , Rolf-Gunter Dienst (eds.): Rhinozeros, No. 1 (Itzehoe 1960) to No. 10 (Berlin 1965), Rhinozeros Archive
Holger Jacobs, Victor Malsy (eds.): Klaus-Peter Dienst. Calligrammatic typography and poetic text images, Düsseldorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-941334-44-1

Double page from RhinozEROS 5

Individual evidence

↑ “My little brother wrote the lyrics; because I still haven't learned to be talkative or charming on command. ”Klaus-Peter Dienst in a handwritten letter to Prof. Gerhard Fietz, June 5, 1960. The art historian and author Dr. Maike Bruhns researches Prof. Gerhard Fietz.
^ ^A ^b Klaus-Peter Dienst: ABC weapons for poets . Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin September 22, 1963.
^ Bazon Brock: movens. Documents and analyzes on poetry, fine arts, music, architecture. Ed .: Höllerer, de la Motte, Mon. Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 27 .
^ Rolf-Gunter Dienst: Informal writings . In: the artwork . No. 10 / XVI . Baden-Baden and Krefeld April 1963, p. 4 .
^ Dietrich Mahlow: writing and image . Amsterdam and Baden-Baden 1963, p. 162 ff .
^ Herbert W. Franke: The phenomenon of art. The scientific principles of aesthetics . Heinz Moos Verlag, Munich 1967, p. 127 .
^ Robert Massin: Letter pictures and picture alphabets. From character to letter and from letter to character . Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1970, p. 237 and 239 .
↑ Jeremy Adler and Ulrich Ernst: Text as a figure. Visual poetry from ancient times to modern times. Wolfenbüttel and Bonn 1987, p. 284 .
↑ Michael Glasmeier: literally literally literally literally. Ed .: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Berlin 1987, p. 20, 95, 201, 202, 244 .

[1] “My little brother wrote the lyrics; because I still haven't learned to be talkative or charming on command. ”Klaus-Peter Dienst in a handwritten letter to Prof. Gerhard Fietz, June 5, 1960. The art historian and author Dr. Maike Bruhns researches Prof. Gerhard Fietz.

[abc_waffen-2] A ^b Klaus-Peter Dienst: ABC weapons for poets . Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin September 22, 1963.

[3] Bazon Brock: movens. Documents and analyzes on poetry, fine arts, music, architecture. Ed .: Höllerer, de la Motte, Mon. Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1960, p. 27 .

[4] Rolf-Gunter Dienst: Informal writings . In: the artwork . No. 10 / XVI . Baden-Baden and Krefeld April 1963, p. 4 .

[5] Dietrich Mahlow: writing and image . Amsterdam and Baden-Baden 1963, p. 162 ff .

[6] Herbert W. Franke: The phenomenon of art. The scientific principles of aesthetics . Heinz Moos Verlag, Munich 1967, p. 127 .

[7] Robert Massin: Letter pictures and picture alphabets. From character to letter and from letter to character . Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg 1970, p. 237 and 239 .

[8] Jeremy Adler and Ulrich Ernst: Text as a figure. Visual poetry from ancient times to modern times. Wolfenbüttel and Bonn 1987, p. 284 .

[9] Michael Glasmeier: literally literally literally literally. Ed .: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage. Berlin 1987, p. 20, 95, 201, 202, 244 .