Between the wars
| Between the wars. Leaves against time
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| publishing company | Self-published |
| First edition | December 1952 |
| attitude | January 1956 |
| Sold edition | approx. 200 copies |
| editor | Albert Thomsen, Werner Riegel [No. 1-2; from No. 3:] Werner Riegel |
The magazine Zwischen den Kriegen was one of the most important German post-war magazines in the field of poetry and was published from 1952 to 1956 in Hamburg-Eppendorf, initially under the editorship of Albert Thomsen and Werner Riegel , as whose life's work it is described, from No. 3 under the sole editor Editing by Werner Riegel, who received lasting support from Peter Rühmkorf . Both authors published in the journal under different pseudonyms: Riegel drew under the names Conrad Kefer, Lothar Leu, Scharbock, Rühmkorf drew as Leslie Meier, Leo Doletzki, Johannes Fontara. One reason for this apparently multiple staff split was a constant lack of contributors. But Kurt Hiller also published here occasionally, as did Eugen Brehm or Hans Henny Jahnn . In addition to individual Hamburg authors, Richard Anders made his poetry debut in Between the Wars in 1954 . Riegel was finally able to win over some representatives of Expressionism (such as Ludwig Meidner ) and Dadaism (such as Richard Huelsenbeck ) for articles in the magazine. So published in issue 21 (January 1955) by Ludwig Meidner "Memories of Jakob van Hoddis ". The cover pictures of the graphic artist Horst Sikorra show how strongly the magazine was externally linked to Expressionism .
The magazine appeared hectographed in A4 format, each number 10 or 16 pages thick, printed on one side, with a print run of 100, later around 200 copies. The single number initially cost 60 pfennigs, then 25 pfennigs - a cost price, since Riegel and Rühmkorf had no commercial intentions with the paper. The number of regular subscribers was a maximum of 70 to 80 people. The magazine's subscribers included Heinrich Böll , Max Brod , Lars Clausen , Alfred Döblin , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Karl Krolow , Reimar Lenz (publicist) , Ansgar Skriver and Dieter Wellershoff . Individual numbers were also sent to Gottfried Benn , whose poetry had the greatest influence on Riegel and Rühmkorf, to Alfred Andersch and Arno Schmidt , who was one of the first critics in Germany to publish a detailed and appreciative article about the Riegel (Lothar Leu: "Portrait of a poet ". Issue 25, September 1955).
"Between the Wars" represented a strictly avant-garde quality, but at the same time politically very belligerent, in its own diction a " schizographic " line (from Greek s | chizos "split"), which for the author both texts of the highest artistic demands and such demanded independent and sharp political criticism. Like quite a few ( cf. Ultimism ), the authors also expected a third world war to come soon (hence the title) and described their attitude as “ Finism ”.
Riegel's sudden death in 1956 ended its publication.
In 2019, Wallstein Verlag will publish a reprint of the idiosyncratic magazine for Rühmkorf's 90th birthday.
Afterlife
A planned successor magazine “ Anarche ” no longer appeared. Both friends had already turned more to the " Studentenkurier ", the widely read magazine of the 1958 movement Fight against Atomic Death .
Individual evidence
- ^ Rüdiger Schütt: Between the Wars , Munich 2009, p. 9
- ↑ Lars Clausen , The Finists . In: Mittelweg 36 , Vol. 1, 1992
- ↑ Susanne Fischer : Poetischer Expression von Nulligkeit, Hamburg History Live Magazin, Issue 11 (2019), pp. 98-109.
literature
- Peter Rühmkorf: Werner Riegel. "... loaded with a program of poets and the poor pig". Zurich, 1984.
- Rüdiger Schütt (ed.), Between the Wars. Werner Riegel, Klaus Rainer Röhl and Peter Rühmkorf - Correspondence with Kurt Hiller 1953–1971 , edition text + kritik, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-88377-997-3 .
- Martin Kölbel (ed.): Between the wars. Leaves against time. A magazine by Werner Riegel and Peter Rühmkorf , Göttingen: Wallstein 2019, ISBN 978-3-8353-3535-6 .