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Middens is a German -language annual publication of literature and artwork that attracted attention because of the original combination of art and word. It was published ( with a twelve -year hiatus ) by Erik Martin in Viersen since 1969 and has set the output 47/48-2007/2008 the show.
History
The Journal middens created in the wake of the cross- forest driver's, a small magazine that was published from the vicinity of the Bund Youth in the area of border Kaldenkirchener Forest from 1962 to 1969. When the members scattered as a result of their studies throughout Germany and now literature, art and music were the main topics, the magazine was renamed in the fall of 1969 in middens. The transition Issue 15 (1969 ) was both the title cross forest driver or abbreviation gwf and middens. 1975-1985 presented the magazine temporarily ceased publication. From 1993 to only first editions were published; each issue contained a large part of the picture. The circulation stood at 1,000 copies, the page number between 200 and 230 In addition to the normal subscription there was an extra special subscription that outputs each containing a signed and numbered from 1 to 350 original art supplement. As of 1999, wore middens subtitled " annual publication of literature and graphic ". For editorial staff circle included, among others, the artist Martin Lersch and the writer Peter Klusen.
Content and particularities
To the contents of each issue included narrative prose, essays, poetry and reviews, which were combined with diverse art ( illustrations, photographic series, separate works ). Renowned authors found work as first publication available, but aimed the middens also aim to provide little-known artists and authors a high-quality publication platform. So, for example, published Askan Katrin, Uwe Tellkamp and Markus Orth's already in the years writing before later the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize received. Particularly comprehensive essays on mail art, German -language prose, literary journals and poetry publishers were from the permanent editorial staff Theo Breuer. There were also some special editions, for example, about the writer Werner Helwig.
The special feature of the annual publication were the regular extensive " special parts " that were dedicated to a specific topic, for example ' literature in Greenland "(2005), " Young Danish and Norwegian literature "(2000) or about the artist Gertrude Degenhardt (2007 / 2008). Among others already forgotten authors such as Fritz Grasshoff or Margot Scharpenberg were often given space and new product reviews. " True treasures has raised with the special parts of the middens. He is a writer from Greenland before with their most politically and socially critical tinged lyrics. For most German readers it will be the first contact with the presumably recent literature scene in the world. "
Authors and Artists
Among the well-known authors, published in the middens, included, among others, the Austrian poet Ernst Jandl and the winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Islamic scholar Annemarie Schimmel, also Brigitte Kronauer, Günter Kunert, Siegfried Lenz, Christoph Meckel and Guntram Vespers. Particularly, the annual publication sought to rediscover the writer Werner Helwig and Albert Vigoleis Thelen, of which also posthumous texts were published. Young poets like Jan Wagner and Anja came Utler say along with older, for example, Johannes Kühn or Margaret Hannsmann. Among the renowned artists, the works presented for the annual publication available, included the photographer Barbara Klemm, who lives in New York Clemens Weiss ( title design ), the painter Mark Cramer ( art supplement ), Heerich, Fritz Schwegler and book artist Elke Rehder.
Quotes about the middens
- Mark Siemons: " A growing number of smaller circulation tries to escape the mainstream with sometimes daring twists. They are called middens, [ ... ] "
- Michael Buselmeier characterized the middens as " a good-natured side line of the other die-hard literary establishment. "
- Hermann Kurzke: " Shells are the small, neglected gems on the beach of great literature ."
Secondary literature
- Bernhard Fischer; Thomas Dietzel: German literary magazines from 1945 to 1970. A repertory. Edited German Literature Archive. De Gruyter Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 978-3-598-22000-5
- Hermann Kurzke: With fresh wind into the romance. In: FAZ. 1 January 1994.
- Michael Buselmeier: Hunger phases, migratory birds. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. 8 April 2000.
- Helga Seifert: The last middens. Rheinische Post, February 24th, 2007.
- Markus Orth: Farewell to the middens. In: Am Erker. Journal of literature. No. 53, Daedalus, Münster, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89126-553-6.
- Paul Wietzorek: middens 2007/2008. In: The Lower Rhine. No. 3/2007, Krefeld, ISSN 0342-5673.