Vienna diary
| Vienna diary
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| Frequency of publication | per month |
| Editors-in-chief | Ernst Fischer , Bruno Frei , Franz Marek , Leopold Spira , Martin Pollack and Hazel Rosenstrauch a . a. |
| ISSN (print) | 0039-8934 |
Wiener Tagebuch is the most common name for an Austrian cultural journal , which existed under different names from 1946 to 1989, was financed by the KPÖ until 1969 and later oriented towards Eurocommunism and in which numerous important intellectuals contributed.
history
As the Austrian diary , the magazine was kept from 1946–1947 by Alexander Sacher-Masoch , later by Bruno Frei , who was considered loyal to the line . 1950 to 1969 the magazine was called "Diary". Viktor Matejka , who was assigned the co-editors Ernst Fischer and Bruno Frei , initially acted as editor-in-chief . The magazine, which was run down to around 500 copies around 1950, achieved large increases in circulation (to well over 10,000 copies) through exports to the nearby countries of the Eastern Bloc , which, however, also resulted in interventions by the Stalinist governments there. In 1957, in the wake of the Hungarian popular uprising of 1956, Ernst Fischer, who was still considered to be somewhat loyal to the party at the time, was appointed editor-in-chief instead of Matejka , followed by Bruno Frei in 1960. In connection with the Prague Spring , the “diary” moved further and further away from the KPÖ's largely Moscow-loyal line. In 1969 there was a break. During the last decades the magazine was kept as the “Wiener Tagebuch” by editors-in-chief like Franz Marek , Leopold Spira , Martin Pollack and Hazel Rosenstrauch . Throughout its existence, the magazine has always stood for a relatively open, undoctrinally leftist attitude away from a narrow-minded party line. It is a valuable document on the Austrian and European cultural history of the post-war period. Its contributors included Ryszard Kapuscinski , Georg Lukács and Eric John Hobsbawm . Especially in the period after 1968, the magazine attracted numerous younger writers such as Claudio Magris , Erich Hackl and Karl-Markus Gauß . Ultimately, however, the project failed due to the thinning and aging of the core readership of classic left-wing intellectuals.
There has been a follow-up project since 2019: Diary - Journal for Confrontation from Vienna.
literature
- Christina Zoppel: Loyalty to the line and liberalism. The reception of contemporary Austrian literature in the communist “diary” 1950-1960 . University of Vienna, 1995 ( wienbibliothek.at [PDF] diploma thesis).
- Hazel Rosenstrauch : While sifting through the inheritance. Viennese pictures for the museum of a declining culture. Mannheim: Persona-Verlag, 1992. ISBN 9783924652197
Web links
- Literature from and about Wiener Tagebuch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Diary - journal for argument