Wasp's Nest (magazine)
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| description | Austrian literary magazine |
| publishing company | Waspennest group association, Vienna |
| First edition | 1969 |
| Frequency of publication | half-yearly |
| Sold edition | 5000 copies |
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| editor | Andrea Roedig , Andrea Zederbauer |
| Web link | www.wespennest.at |
| ISSN |
1012-7313 |
wasp nest. magazine for useful texts and pictures is an austrian literary magazine .
The journal has published quarterly texts since 1969 and biannual texts by international authors since 2010 as well as new literary discoveries. In addition to country-specific, literary, art-theoretical or political topics, each issue offers interviews, polemics, reports, portraits, book and theater reviews as well as photographic work on 112 large-format pages.
history
The magazine, founded in 1969 by Peter Henisch and Helmut Zenker , developed as a project by a group of authors from the context of the Viennese '68 scene . The title says it all. Waspennest wants to transform and update the socially critical demands of the early days without betraying them under the conditions of a changed market. Due to a distribution cooperation with the Munich publishing house CH Beck, Wespennest is represented in the entire German-speaking book trade.
In the field of literature and essay writing, it offered and still offers internationally known authors such as Friedrich Achleitner , Gennadij Ajgi , Lothar Baier , Rudolf Burger , Mircea Cartarescu , Inger Christensen , Peter O. Chotjewitz , György Dalos , Jesús Díaz , Ulrike Draesner , Katarina Frostenson , Arno Geiger , Sabine Gruber , Adolf Holl , Nora Iuga , Jaan Kaplinski , Navid Kermani , Friederike Mayröcker , Elif Şafak , Warlam Schalamow , Robert Schindel , Burghart Schmidt , Heinz Steinert , Ilija Trojanow , Tomas Venclova , Wolf Wondratschek and others the forum of a literary community and a critical public. The Wasp's Nest is a forum for dialogue for European literature, in which not only countries such as Spain, the Netherlands, Greece or the Scandinavian states are taken into account, but also, above all, the literature of Eastern European countries from Bulgaria to Hungary is presented and discussed.
With the founding of the Wespennest, the then twenty-year-old writers Peter Henisch and Helmut Zenker initially created a publication organ for their own texts, as opposed to the literary journal Literature and Criticism, which was perceived as "too good", and the "too avant-garde" manuscripts . After the founding authors left, among others the writers Gustav Ernst and Franz Schuh were editors and co-editors of the Wespennest. In the mid-1980s, Josef Haslinger modified the concept of the quarterly magazine so that, in addition to German-language literature and essay writing, translations of up-and-coming foreign authors who were not yet known in the German-speaking area are regularly published. In the meantime, through cooperation with the Internet magazine Eurozine , one of whose founding magazines was the Wespennest, a lively exchange with intellectual publication rooms in and beyond Europe is maintained.
Walter Famler , editor of the magazine until 2014, expanded the magazine publisher in the early 1990s to include a book publisher that published three to five books a year in the Edition Literatur, Edition Essay and Edition Film series. The Wespennest, originally founded as a literary magazine, is now a medium that is recognized beyond the German-speaking area and has also opened up to the field of humanities and social sciences. In the form of an essay , the Wespennest regularly and critically devotes itself to topics of contemporary art and film, but also to political and social events at home and abroad.
With the 100th edition of the Waspennest, published in September 1995, there were again changes in content and design. Since then, Stefan Fuhrer has been responsible for the new design; articles such as Drago Jančar , Dževad Karahasan , John Mateer and Meg Stuart appear under the label “Wasp's Nest Portrait” . A basic idea of these portraits is the special connection between photography and text.
In addition to the four, or since the beginning of 2010, two special issues per year, special issues appear again and again, for example on the jazz composer Franz Koglmann , the poet Friederike Mayröcker or the Art-brut artist Adolf Wölfli .
Award
The Wespennest is one of the “most innovative and at the same time most renowned literary magazines in the German-speaking world and proves its international format four times a year,” said the jury, who awarded the magazine the 2003 Victor Otto Stomps Prize awarded by the city of Mainz “for outstanding achievements in small-scale publishing “Excellent.
editorial staff
Since 2014 Andrea Roedig and Andrea Zederbauer have been editing the magazine together with Erich Klein , Walter Famler, Jan Koneffke (literature), Tanja Martini (defector), Reinhard Öhner (photo), Ilija Trojanow (report) and Thomas Eder (book reviews). György Dalos (Berlin), George Blecher (New York), Jyoti Mistry (Johannesburg) and Franz Schuh (Vienna) are permanent employees.
literature
- Ruth Esterhammer, Fritz Gaigg and Markus Köhle (eds.): Handbook of Austrian and South Tyrolean literary magazines 1970-2004 . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4608-9 .
- Sandra Uschtrin and Heribert Hinrichs (eds.): Handbook for authors . 8th edition. Uschtrin Verlag, Inning am Ammersee 2015, ISBN 978-3-932522-16-1 , p. 304 .