TransAtlantic

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TransAtlantic

description German culture magazine
publishing company NewMag, Munich
First edition 1980
attitude 1991
Frequency of publication per month
Editor Marianne Schmidt
ISSN (print) 0720-0811

TransAtlantik (derived from transatlantic , connecting or crossing the Atlantic ) was a monthly magazine of the Munich-based NewMag-Verlag (also publisher of the magazines lui and Photo ) by Heinz van Nouhuys . The culture magazine TransAtlantik was founded in 1980 based on a concept by Gaston Salvatore and Hans Magnus Enzensberger and discontinued in 1991 after 82 issues.

Publication history

The first edition appeared at the book fair in October 1980. The target group would be “just as much at home in bookshops [...] as in delicatessen shops”. TransAtlantik polarized from the start, while some complained about the betrayal of leftist ideals, while others praised the editorial team's high cultural standards. TransAtlantik was therefore also compared with ambitious magazines like The New Yorker or du .

The sheet was published with an initial circulation of 150,000 copies. The imprint of the first edition lists Marianne Schmidt as the editor, the editors include Karl Markus Michel , Michael Rutschky and Katharina Kaever (today: Katharina Enzensberger) as well as Bernd Bexte as photo editor. From the October 1981 issue onwards, Bernd Bexte was managed as Art Director and Gundolf S. Freyermuth , who had been a freelancer until then, joined the editorial team. With the April 1982 edition, the latter replaced Michael Rutschky in the imprint. In May 1982 Rainer Wörtmann became Art Director.

In addition to Enzensberger and Salvatore, the authors of the first two years included many well-known journalists, including Peter Schneider , Ulrich Enzensberger , Tom Wolfe , Pauline Kael , Lothar Baier , Hans-Georg Behr , Jörg Schröder , Hellmuth Karasek , but also many young discoveries by Editorial staff that only emerged in and through TransAtlantik , including Irene Dische , Bodo Kirchhoff , Pieke Biermann , Joseph von Westphalen , Angelika Overath , Jochen Missfeldt , Walter Laufenberg , Rainald Goetz , Detlef Blettenberg and Christoph Ransmayr .

In the course of the summer of 1982 - in view of the insufficient number of copies - conceptual conflicts arose between the publisher van Nouhuys and the editor Schmidt on the one hand and the founders, who had the right to veto, on the other. Enzensberger and Salvatore were ousted by Nouhuys, after which the entire editorial team resigned. The last issue for which Enzensberger, Salvatore and the rest of the editorial team were responsible was the December 1982 issue. There was a legal dispute including an injunction from the publisher, which was delivered to the editorial staff during the farewell party and forbidden to the participants , “To proclaim 'literally and / or analogously': 'TransAtlantik would be without the cooperation of Dr. Enzensberger and Gaston Salvatore dead '. "

The issues that appeared after December 1982 had little to do with the magazine designed by Enzensberger and Salvatore. Reinhard Hesse was one of the later editors . In the spring of 1984 the printed edition only reached around 50,000 copies. However, never more than 15,000 copies were sold. After NewMag-Verlag had spent four million  DM in order to save TransAtlantik from bankruptcy, from summer 1984 the magazine appeared only every three months as a “special issue”.

The Spiegel publishing house bought in 1989 TransAtlantik up and introduced soon after the sheet in March 1991. Among the publicists from this period was the Swiss journalist and then Russia correspondent Christoph Neidhart . The publisher Marianne Schmidt gave responsibility for the lack of will to continue the magazine of the limited partnership of the employees of the Spiegel publishing house: "In the end it was probably the employees KG, who would rather have their profits paid out than invest in us."

A remake by students at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2001 officially failed due to the unresolved title rights.

The booklets had a volume of 80 to 100 pages in the format 29 × 21 cm.

expenditure

82 issues appeared in twelve years:

vintage number
10/1980 - 12/1980   3 booklets
1/1981 - 12/1981 12 booklets
1/1982 - 12/1982 12 booklets
1/1983 - 12/1983 12 booklets
1/1984 - 9/1984  9 booklets
1/1985 - 4/1985  4 booklets
1/1986 - 4/1986  4 booklets
1/1987 - 4/1987  4 booklets
1/1988 - 4/1988  4 booklets
1/1989 - 3/1989  3 booklets
1/1990 - 12/1990 12 booklets
1/1991 - 3/1991   3 booklets

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heinrich Heine in an Alfa Romeo . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1980 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Frenkel: Playful, educated, elitist . In: Die Zeit , No. 52/1995
  3. ↑ Culture magazines for the 80s . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1979, pp. 145 ( online ).
  4. ↑ TransAtlantik , October 1980, p. 110
  5. ↑ TransAtlantik , October 1981, p. 114
  6. ^ TransAtlantik , April 1982, p. 98
  7. ↑ TransAtlantik , May 1982, p. 98
  8. ↑ a b dream racket . In: Tempo , March 1991, pp. 86-89;  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.freyermuth.com
  9. ↑ Time mosaic: Faithless readers . In: Die Zeit , No. 30/1984