Trajekt (magazine)
Trajekt ( ZDB-ID : 275771-0) was the in-house magazine of Hinstorff Verlag in Rostock from 1970 to 1990 . Of the periodicals with sophisticated content and graphics in small format of 19 cm by 10 cm, a total of 23 issues have been published over the course of twenty years.
history
History of the magazine
The first Trajekt magazine appeared in 1970. It did not contain a foreword or a message to readers about the publisher's motif. Instead, issue 1 opened inside with a colored decorative sheet by the illustrator Heinz Bormann combined with the wish: "On the big wave of our time, the small ship and its crew always have a good trip on course for the next decade". The editorial on the issue of the new magazine, which the reader might have expected , was also missing with issue 2/1970. Nevertheless, the project met with a positive response. The editors reprinted a review on page 2 under the heading Die Fähre , which had appeared on the new periodical in the Berlin weekly Die Weltbühne . “Publishers dream of wonderful new advertising material that could be the publisher's calling card, brochure and literary ID in one. Some dream, others do. What various of the more or less elderly gentlemen among the house magazines of our publishers conceal with venerable patina. Hinstorff's new in-house magazine still shows it blank and with verve: concise and clear information about books, authors and literary society, ”it said. There was even admiration for the “remarkably white paper”.
In his Trajekt series, Hinstorff advertised new publications, recalled reprints, gave outlooks on new books through reading samples and quoted press reviews on important books. Original articles by Hinstorff published authors appeared again and again in the booklets. The notebooks were garnished with graphics and photo work. For over 20 years, Trajekt has been considered a “fresh literary breeze” and “poetry ferry” from Rostock.
History of the publisher
Hinstorff repeatedly used his in-house magazine to present the publisher's history and development in detail. In issue 12/1979, 20 years of state-owned company Hinstorff Verlag was remembered. Issue 14/1981 was dedicated to a “big” company anniversary: Harry Fauth headed his essay 150 Years of Hinstorff Verlag with “Traditions preserved, new things promoted”. Horst Bien delivered a "Congratulations, dear friends at Hinstorff". Jürgen Borchert started thinking about a future Hinstorff bibliography. And the publisher contributed the facsimile of the old publishing contract between Carl Hinstorff and B. Ritzerow.
In the following issue 15/1982 there was a review of the previous Hinstorff anniversary under the heading Dispute and open . Under the supplements to the history of the publishing house in volume 16/1983 under the title Gelernt bei Hinstorff there was a tribute to the former Hinstorff apprentice Adolf Marcks , who made it to a major publisher in St. Petersburg in the 19th century , and an article titled Hinstorff in Chicago . Issue 17/1984 contained further additions to the publishing history. In issues 19/1987 and 20/1988 Hinstorff celebrated his move to the publishing house Lagerstraße 7 in Rostock ( at an old site in the new house , first guests in the new house ). Issue 21/1989 took on another anniversary of the publishing house: 3 decades of national ownership - facts and figures . This article was supplemented by a copy of a conversation that Jürgen Grambow had with Konrad Reich about VEB Hinstorff Verlag.
Contributions were also made repeatedly to the former Hinstorff publisher Peter E. Erichson (issues 14/1981 and 22/1990).
Special issues
A few issues were dedicated to the authors of the Hinstorff Verlag:
Issue 5/1972 Franz Fühmann for his 50th birthday on January 15, 1972, Issue 6/1972 Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg for his 60th birthday on October 19, 1972, Issue 7/1973 Erich Arendt for his 70th birthday on April 15, 1973 and issue 10/1976 to the Hinstorff editor-in-chief and editor of the collected works and letters Fritz Reuters Kurt Batt . Issue 14/1981 was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Hinstorff Verlag.
Front page
The name “trajekt” and the respective issue number appeared in lowercase on the title. Below was the publisher's name "Hinstorff Rostock".
Editor and editor
VEB Hinstorff Verlag was listed in the imprint with its Rostock address, but did not expressly identify itself as the publisher. Kurt Batt, Konrad Reich and Klaus Schlesinger (issues 1/1970 to 4/1971 and 6/1972 to 9/1974) were at times "responsible for the content" . In the 5/1972 issue, these three were listed under "Publishing and editing". Issue 10/1976 was published by Konrad Reich. For issues 10/1976 and 12/1979 to 22/1990, according to the legal notice, Jürgen Grambow was responsible for editing . The editors of the past, in the 1990 turnaround time of the GDR published booklet "special trajekt" concerned Renate Heincke, Grit Schröter and Horst Mocker.
Authors
The publisher's authors were the first to have their say in the Trajekt magazines, but also authors who dealt with the publisher's authors. The so-called “about” contributions had a firm place: Renate Apitz on Hans-Georg Lietz 's novel Das Hexenhaus , Brigitte Birnbaum on Benno Voelkner , Heinz Czechowski on Erich Arendt, Heinrich Ehlers on Rolf Schneider's new novel The Death of the Nibelungs , Manfred Jendryschik about Erich Köhler , Heinz Knobloch about Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg, Hans-Georg Lietz about the novel Hexenzeit by Renate Apitz, Roland Links about Klaus Schlesinger's Michael , Gisela Perlet about Per Christian Jersild and Heðin Brú , Anne Storm about Sven Fagerberg. Contributors to the booklet were: Jurek Becker , Kurt Biesalski , Christa Borchert, Jürgen Borchert, Gerhard Branstner , Fritz Rudolf Fries , Franz Fühmann, Peter Goldammer, Peter Jakubeit , Bernd Jentzsch , Heinz Kamnitzer , Rainer Kirsch , Sarah Kirsch , Erich Köhler, Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg, Gert Neumann , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Ursula Püschel , Egon Richter, Anna Seghers , Rolf Schneider, Armin Stolper , Winfried Völlger , Christa Wolf , Gerhard Wolf .
Members of the Hinstorff Verlag have written articles for Trajekt: Kurt Batt (editor-in-chief from 1961 to 1975), Günter Drommer (editor for contemporary literature), Harry Fauth (publishing director), Jürgen Grambow (editor for contemporary literature), Ursula Gunsilius (department head for northern European literature ), Wolfgang Heincke (production manager), Wolfgang Müns (department head for Low German and regional literature), Konrad Reich (publishing manager) and Horst Simon (head editor).
illustration
Hinstorff applied particular care, combined with high artistic standards, to the cover design of the booklets. The cover illustrations are by Werner Schinko (issue 1/1970), Eberhard Binder (2/1970); Klaus Ensikat (3/1970); Heinz Bormann (4/1971); Brigitte N. Kröning (6/1972); Helmut Merten (7/1973); Rosemarie Fret (8/1974); Lothar Reher (9/1974); Werner Schinko (10/1976); Alfred von Bodecker (11/1978); Felix Büttner (12/1979); Rolf Xago Schröder (13/1980); Hartwig Hamer (14/1981); Heinz Holzgraben (15/1982); Eberhard Kahle (16/1983); Alfred Traugott Mörstedt (17/1984); Carl Hinrichs (18/1986); Heinz Holzgraben (19/1987); Inge Jastram (20/1988); Heike Bräuer (21/1989); Erika Müller-Pöhl (22/1990) and Eduard Albrecht (special trajectory 1990). The illustrations inside the booklet were provided by Manfred Böttcher , Wieland Förster , Bert Heller , Horst Hussel , Adolf Jöhnssen , Dan Jonsson, Werner Klemke , Fritz Koch-Gotha , Harald Kretzschmar , Lothar Mannewitz , Harald Metzkes , Rolf F. Müller , Armin Münch , Ronald Paris , Stefan Plenkers , Nuria Quevedo , Hendrik Röder, Eva Johanna Rubin, Heinrich Vogeler .
The imprint names the designers for some issues: Horst Wolf (1/1970 and 2/1970) and Wolfgang Heincke (3/1971 to 8/1974).
photo
The middle section of the Trajekt booklet contained photo series of different lengths, mostly eight or twelve pages and in exceptional cases also 16 pages (Fühmann booklet 5/1972). The photo section of the Trajekt booklet showed photos of the authors of the publishing house, readings, book exhibitions, publishing events, etc. The imprint of each booklet contained a complete list of all illustrators and photographers. Among the photographers were Dirk Alvermann , Hans-Hubertus Brumberg, Jürgen Fensch, Egon Fischer, Christian Kraushaar, Roger Melis , Klaus Morgenstern, Gisela Pätsch, Horst Pedersen, Hildegard Levermann-Westerholz, Hans Wotin.
Rubrics
Information on Hinstorff's publishing program had a permanent place from the beginning of the publication to the end of the series. These appeared in the course of the years under changing headings, initially "New publications, subsequent editions, available production", later "New publications, subsequent editions" (issues 12/1979 to 22/1990). In addition, almost all of the booklets published contained the headings “Hinstorff Information - Hinstorff News” and “About the person - About the matter”. Occasionally press comments on Hinstorff and his program were given.
Appear
Hinstorff had initially announced that the series would be published every six months, but only kept this claim with two issues each in the years 1970 to 1972 (issues 1 to 6) and in 1974 (issues 8 and 9). In later years Hinstorff achieved annual publication (issues 7/1973 and 10/1976 to 22/1990). In 1975, 1977 and 1985 no Trajekt books were published.
scope
Most of the booklets were 60 pages long. The special trajectory 1990 with 40 pages and the 4/1971 and 9/1974 with 56 pages had the smallest volume. The volumes 5/1972 (Franz Fühmann on his 50th birthday) and 14/1981 (150 years of Hinstorff Verlag) were the most extensive, each with 132 pages.
Manufacturing
The first ten issues, published between 1970 and 1976, were produced by the "Franz Maecker" print shop in Neuruppin. Issues 11/1978 to 21/1989 were produced by the Schweriner Volkszeitung printer in Schwerin. The Schwerin printing house is designated for typesetting and printing for issue 22/1990. Ostsee-Druck in Rostock took over the typesetting and printing of the last issue (special trajekt 1990).
Edition
The number of copies of the individual Trajekt issues is not known.
Special traject
With the “Sonder-trajekt” booklet published in 1990, Hinstorff said goodbye to its existence as a state-owned company, although it still identified itself as “VEB” in the imprint. “The worries have not faded away” is the title of the preface to the magazine from December 1989. On the last page the publisher let it be known: “Hinstorff has a works council, elected in January 1990.” It was the first publisher in the GDR to opt for such a solution. On November 8th and 9th, 1989 the publishing house hosted its contemporary literature authors. The foreword states: “When the Hinstorff authors were in Rostock, Egon Krenz still held three positions. When they left Rostock and the gates at Hinstorff closed, gates were opened elsewhere. Suddenly Berlin's wall had a thousand doors. ” The idea for the Trajekt special came from the authors. They wanted to spontaneously articulate the opinions and sensitivities of those days. The further political events then overwhelmed authors and publishers. “Some of the contributions from our trajectory now seem almost classic - because they are historically obsolete,” says the preface to the 40-page contributions by a total of 15 authors. The “remarkable series” from Hinstorff's house “regrettably” did not survive the fall of the Wall , stated the 2002 yearbook for book lovers .
reception
A complete directory of all authors and their contributions, which appeared in the 23 Trajekt issues, is available in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan Berlin .
literature
- Jürgen Grambow: Offers to talk to each other / "Trajekt" - business card of VEB Hinstorff Verlag. In: Börsenblatt for the German book trade, publishing house of the Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhandels. 1982. Volume 149, Part 4, Issue 44, pp. 865-868
- Ulrike Erber-Bader: German-language publishing almanacs of the 20th century: AM, No. 1-1493 . German Schiller Society , 2001, ISBN 3933679524
- Simone Barck , Martina Langermann, Siegfried Lokatis : Between “Mosaic” and “Unity”. Magazines in the GDR. Christoph Links Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3861531917 , pp. 389, 392f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Marginalia: Zeitschrift für Buchkunst und Bibliophile, issues 39–43, Pirckheimer-Gesellschaft, 1970, p. 221
- ^ JS in Die Weltbühne , Berlin, July 28, 1970.
- ↑ Kulturpolitische Korrespondenz, issues 976–993. East German Cultural Council, 1996, p. 12
- ^ The Librarian, Central Institute for Libraries, 1972, Volume 26, p. 430
- ^ Imprimatur: Ein Jahrbuch für Bücherfreunde, Verlag der Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 2002, Volume 17, p. 256