Siren (magazine)
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| description | German literary magazine |
| publishing company | Babel-Verlag, Munich |
| First edition | 1990 |
| attitude | 1999 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| ISSN |
0933-7423 |
Sirene is a German literary magazine that has been published twice a year since 1990 by the Munich-based Babel-Verlag of the Turkish publisher Bülent Tulay . The magazine, founded in 1988, was previously published by the Sirene editorial team and the Kirchheim publishing house.
concept
The magazine focuses on international authors who are largely unknown in Germany. The editorial team consists of French, Greek, Turkish and German authors and translators.
meaning
Hans-Jürgen Heise called the magazine what he saw as “the most important magazine that has seen the light of the journalistic public in recent years”. It lures the German reader "from his regional corner, his provincial offside". Reviewer Michael Braun from Saarländischer Rundfunk spoke of an attack on “Eurocentric narrow-mindedness”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung judged: "an international literary magazine in the best sense of the word."
Another literary magazine emerged from the magazine, New Sirene , which appeared in 1994 alongside Sirene .
In 1999 the publication was discontinued.
Awards
- Horst Bienek Award of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts 1991 for services to poetry