Language in the technical age
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| description | German literary magazine |
| publishing company | Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne / Vienna |
| First edition | 1961 |
| Frequency of publication | quarterly |
| Editor-in-chief | Thomas Geiger |
| editor | Thomas Geiger, Norbert Miller , Joachim Sartorius |
| Web link | www.spriss.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0038-8475 |
Language in the Technical Age ( Sprint for short ) is a literary magazine founded in 1961 by the author and literary scholar Walter Höllerer with an editorial office at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB).
Characteristic
Walter Höllerer explained the title of the magazine in the foreword to the first issue as follows:
"A 'language of technology' is not spoken here, nor should language be traced back to its countable, mechanical laws, but the necessary use and resistance of language in a century influenced by technology is to be examined."
A characteristic of the Spritz is the combination of original literary texts with theoretical and literary articles as well as essays and interviews. Language in the technical age repeatedly intervened in major controversies such as the Zurich literary controversy . Today u. a. Marcel Beyer , Katja Lange-Müller , Ingo Schulze , Volker Sielaff and Burkhard Spinnen are represented more frequently in the magazine. In addition to the first publication of new texts by German-speaking authors, the magazine is now particularly committed to foreign authors, some of whose works are being presented for the first time in German translation. The main focus in this regard is on authors from East Central Europe and the Anglo-American language area. Since the 1990s, the graphic design has consciously been linked to the emphatically objective and calm appearance of the first years; the author portraits, which are generally reproduced in black and white and mostly by the photographer Renate von Mangoldt, are characteristic.
History and frequency of publication
In its early years, the magazine was closely associated with Höllerer's institute of the same name at the Technical University of Berlin . It has been published four times a year since it was founded, and the issues have been counted continuously since No. 1. Since 2002, special issues have also been published at irregular intervals. From 1980 to 1991 the literature supplement existed in the technical age (the title of which was consequently abbreviated to “Litz”). With the 1992 vintage, the division into a theoretical part (Spritz) and a supplement with literary texts (Litz) was abandoned. The publisher changed several times: The magazine was published by Kohlhammer Verlag (until 1976), self-published by LCB (until 1992), by Rütten & Loening (1993) and Aufbau-Verlag (1994-1996). After the publication of issue No. 140, the last issue of 1996, the Aufbau-Verlag surprisingly announced the discontinuation of the magazine. The strong media response, however, led other publishers to apply for continuation; In the summer of 1997, Höllerer and his employees finally decided on SH-Verlag . The magazine is now published by Böhlau Verlag . Since Höllerer's death in 2003, his co-editors Norbert Miller and Joachim Sartorius have continued the magazine. Editor-in-chief Thomas Geiger has also been the publisher since 2014. In 2006, Spritz received the Calwer Hermann Hesse Prize ; from the reason: "The publishers and editors of the magazine have accomplished the impressive achievement of keeping the magazine free of fashions and still making it a current chronicle of literary life."
literature
- Sandra Uschtrin, Heribert Hinrichs (Hrsg.): Handbook for authors . 8th edition. Uschtrin Verlag, Inning am Ammersee 2015, ISBN 978-3-932522-16-1 , p. 300 .
- Helmut Böttiger : 40 years of language in the technical age . In: Language in the Technical Age , No. 166, June 2003, pp. 188–193.