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Full text

description Literature newspaper
Area of ​​Expertise literature
language German
First edition 2002
Frequency of publication 4 × per year as well as various special editions
Sold edition 30,000 copies
( I / 2008 )
editor Thomas Keul, Christian Reder
Web link www.volltext.net

Volltext (own spelling: VOLLTEXT ) is a bi-monthly German-language literary magazine in newspaper format. It is edited by Thomas Keul and Christian Reder . The magazine has been published four times a year since 2002 with a circulation of 30,000 copies (as of 2010). Publication countries are Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Full text can be purchased at a single price of € 5.90 in bookshops, tobacconists and kiosks as well as over-the-counter sales and can be obtained through various subscription offers.

content

The aim of full text is to make contemporary literature accessible to the broadest possible audience. The editorial focus is on original articles and preprints, which are supplemented by interviews, portraits, reports and critiques / reviews. The spectrum includes all literary genres. The regular columns the other day by Andreas Maier , Our Popmoderne , in which Marc Degens presents new publications by fictional authors, The residents of Château Talbot by Arno Geiger , No longer available! by Clemens J. Setz on works by important authors that are out of print and the Carte blanche column , in which publishers have their say. The poetry is dedicated to Silke Scheuermann in Lyrischen Moment and Michael Braun (critic) in his poetry logbook .

In addition to the regular issues, various special issues appear, for example on Ernst Jandl or special issues on the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . In the 3/2011 edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair , the texts of which come entirely from writers, the names of all authors were anonymized or numbered chronologically in order to - as the publisher (number 2) and editor (number 3) write in the editorial - the “magic name “Leveling the sounding names of authors and publishers.

Thomas Keul and Christian Reder are also publishers of the science newspaper Recherche .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. Aligning, blackening, exposing . First episode of the series "No longer available"
  2. Number magic: Authors without names.