Publications
LITMAG: East European Literary Magazines 1945–2004: Testing the Boundaries and Paving the Way to Democratization
Project Book publication
TESTIMONIES: INTERVIEW WITH DR MANCA KOŠIR, MEMBER OF NOVA REVIJA’S EDITORIAL BOARD
Dr Manca Košir is a university professor, journalist, publicist, and writer. She was one of the signatories of the initiative for the creation of Nova revija and has been a member of its editorial board since its foundation in 1982
TESTIMONIES: INTERVIEW WITH SPOMENKA AND TINE HRIBAR
Spomenka and Tine Hribar on free thought, democratisation, the communist party and dissidents, the power of words and magazines once and today, the uncertain future of Europe and the world.
TESTIMONIES: INTERVIEW WITH ZOLTÁN ÁGOSTON
Zoltán Ágoston has been the editor-in-chief of Jelenkor for almost twenty-five years. The interview with Zoltán Ágoston was conducted by Jolán Orbán on 13 September 2023 at the closing event of the exhibition LITMAG 1945-2004, organized in the frame of PécsLIT Literary Festival (Civil Közösségek Háza, Szent István tér, 17, Pécs, Hungary)
ESSEY: Peter Wawerzinek: THE ILLEGAL MAGAZINES AND THE CRAZY PUBLISHER
Peter Wawerzinek (born in 1954 in Rostock, GDR). His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children’s homes. He moved to East Berlin in 1978 where he studied art (without completing a degree), worked a various jobs including gravedigger and carpenter. In the 1980s he was a performance artist and poet. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2010 for an excerpt from of his novel Rabenliebe (Bad Love, literally: Ravens’ Love) which was also on the short-list of the 2010 German Book Prize. He has received numerous grants, among them the author’s grant from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo 2019. He lives in Magdeburg. Recent book publications: Schluckspecht (2014), Liebestölpel (both Galiani, 2019), and Letzte Buchung (Rough Books, 2023).