Yes, everything these days is digital: we can read, comment and send anything on our little screens. And yet print remains. It’s on the decline, but it still exists. I love print a lot, especially magazines: the turning of the pages, the curled up paper splashed with coffee or bath or pool water, the big photos that seem more real in print and the clever thoughts whose authority grows on the printed page. It’s the pages that can be torn out, sent, put on the wall and wrapped around gifts. It’s the object. The fetish. Everything. Three particularly clever and good examples of independent Berlin magazines are (or – unfortunately – were) Das Wetter, Die Epilog and Underdog Block from author Theresia Enzensberger. For ten years these issues decorated shelves, living rooms and WG bathrooms across the city. And rightly so: they assemble literature, art, music, poetry, high and pop culture and lots of photography with wit, freshness, feeling and staying power.
Now it’s time to mark ten years of these publications – of deadlines broken and met. Tonight (13.07.2023) at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus the editorial teams of the three zines are hosting a celebration and, in the case of Die Epilog, whose very-very-last issue “Kraft” was published in 2021, a deferred farewell. The evening program is wild, and will of course include readings. Jakob Nolte and Teresa Guggenberger, Lynn Takeo Musiol, Paulina Czienskowski and Rudi Nuss will read alongside special guests from Metamorphosenmagazin. There will be drinks from a bar manned by editors and authors, live music and DJ sets, a clearance sale of the publisher’s stock, nostalgia, and lots and lots of conversation. Yes, everything is digital. But really good literature parties can only be had in real life.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Urs Mader & Literaturforum
Literaturforum im Brecht–Haus, Chausseestr.125, 10115 Berlin–Mitte; map
Druckabgabe 13.07.2023 from 19h, party starts 23h.
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