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“Die Box” with the “Schönerlesen” books 1–100

Beautiful reading is a series of 16 to 24-page booklets that has been published by the Berlin publisher SuKuLTuR since 1996 . The contents of the first 147 issues were selected by the SuKuLTuR program manager Marc Degens . The program mainly includes texts by authors of contemporary German literature , but also foreign-language texts in translations. The booklets are mainly sold via confectionery machines, in this way over 100,000 machine booklets were sold between 2004 and 2015 in Berlin alone. Since November 2015, starting with issue number 148, the series has been supervised by Sofie Lichtenstein and Moritz Müller-Schwefe , who also select the texts.

Origin and character of the series

The first issue of the series was published in 1996, since then a total of over 150 issues have been published, which cover a broad spectrum of contemporary literature in various genres (“Pop and Sci-Fi prose, but also autobiographical stories, gonzo journalism, sound poetry and hermetic poetry "). In a publisher's portrait of the weekly newspaper der Freitag , “Beautiful Reading” was described as “an influential phenomenon in the undergrowth of the Berlin literary jungle”. In autumn 2010 SuKuLTuR published the “Box”, a slipcase limited to 222 copies with the first 100 books.

Trivia

In 2007, the booklet series "Schönerlesen" was nominated for the "Vending Star", the innovation award of the Federal Association of the German Vending Machine Industry, in the category "Products for dispensing or preparation in machines".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "In 1996 we published the first two, in the next year three 'Schönerlesen' books, bold poetry and strange prose." - Marc Degens: The SuKuLTuR Years. Berlin: 2009. p. 5. (See list of titles, No. 88.)
  2. ↑ SuKuLTuR is 100.00! Retrieved March 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ “Our 'Faust' was called 'Der Knubbel'. It was a sixteen page story about my over leg. I wrote the story, Torsten designed, set and stitched the booklet. Outwardly, the first 'Schönerlesen' booklet was reminiscent of the ' Universal Library ' from Reclam Verlag : The same format, the yellow cardboard, a similar font. In the beginning we also used a price point system and the black bar on the envelope. Our booklets were only printed thinner and worse. ”- The SuKuLTuR Years , p. 3.
  4. ↑ a b Jörn Dege: To Twix a Dath. In: Friday , November 18, 2010. (online)
  5. ↑ See http://www.sukultur.de/die-box.html
  6. ↑ See archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thats-coffee.com