Westphalian mirror
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| description | Culture magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Ardey-Verlag ( Germany ) |
| First edition | October 1951 |
| Frequency of publication | bi-monthly |
| Widespread edition | 14,000 copies |
| Web link | www.westfalenspiegel.de |
| ISSN (print) | 0508-5942 |
The Westfalenspiegel is a magazine for Westphalia-Lippe that appears six times a year by Ardey-Verlag ( Münster ) and has been published since October 1951. The Westfalenspiegel is one of the oldest regional culture magazines in Germany. The magazine is sold through subscriptions, museum shops and newsagents. The single issue price is 5 euros (as of February 8, 2019). The publisher and the magazine are financially supported by the Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe . Both are part of the cultural promotion in Westphalia-Lippe.
content
The magazine reports on art, museums, literature, theater, music and film, politics, economy and society, introduces people, cities and landscapes from Westphalia and Lippe and gives tips for excursions and dates. Since 2002, every issue has had a 14 to 20-page thematic focus, for example “Architecture”, “Theater and Dance”, “Photography”, “Jokes, Satire, Irony”, “Numbers”, “Die Lippe”, “Pop Music” "," Railway "," Comics "," From Knights and Castles "," Zoo Stories "," Archeology "," Our Brain "," Archives "," Kiosk Culture "," Fascination Moon "and" When Arminius Outwitted the Romans - 2000 years of the Varus Battle ".
Brands from Westphalia are presented in a series. The fixed categories include exhibition, book and theater reviews, a celebrity questionnaire, a cartoon, a riddle and the cultural calendar with dates from Westphalia-Lippe.
In the literary section, the magazine has frequently published poems and excerpts from prose works by contemporary authors since the 1950s, for example by Peter Paul Althaus , Otto A. Böhmer , Otto Jägersberg , Hugo Ernst Buyer , Klaus-Peter Wolf , Ernst Meister , Karl Riha , Peter Rühmkorf , Paul Schallück , Ralf Thenior , Oliver Uschmann , Frank Goosen , Volker W. Degener and Fritz Eckenga .
Using photo series, the magazine regularly presents works by well-known Westphalian photographers such as Fritz Pitz , Thomas Wrede , Hans Rudolf Uthoff , Brigitte Kraemer , Roman (Maria) Mensing , Annet van der Voort and the Ruhrgebiet pixel project . In the 1950s, the photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch was one of the staff of the magazine and published many of his pictures there.
Current news and articles from politics, business, society, culture and science as well as leisure tips are published on the website of the Westfalenspiegel. In addition, a weekly newsletter from the editors informs about news from Westphalia.
history
The original editors of the magazine were the Westphalian Heimatbund and the regional transport association Westphalia . The magazine initially appeared on a monthly basis and was intended to be “a mirror of Westphalian life”. The first editor-in-chief (from October 1951 to May 1975) was the journalist Clemens Herbermann. The main focus was on culture and cultural policy between the Rhine and Weser rivers as well as the tourist attractions of Westphalian cities and landscapes. From the beginning, Westphalian literature had a high priority. The Westfalenspiegel documented and reflected on the Schmallenberg poet controversy, advocated modern Westphalian literature and published early texts by the then controversial Ernst Meister , which led to fierce letters to the editor in the magazine.
The former authors include many writers:
- Josef Reding
- Hans Dieter Black
- Erwin Sylvanus
- Norbert Johannimloh
- Kurt Dörnemann
- August Everding
- Werner Streletz
- Jürgen P. Wallmann