Some of the most fun publications are the makeshift ones: little booklets pieced together on WG floors with staples and glue. Ah yes, the humble zine – a gloriously independent medium that is being celebrated this week at the Flyleaf Book & Zine Festival in Neukölln (24–27.10.2024). More than 70 book and mag makers will be exhibiting their pamphlets, micro-publications, artist books and illustrations at three different places: the publishers Falschrum Books and Replika Publishing who share an address on Braunschweiger Straße and the WirWir project space on Stuttgarter Straße. Covering everything from photocopied poetry to art and activism, these publications’ readerships are small, their topics hyper-niche and their politics radical. You’ll find the chaotic dreamy illustrations of Argentina/Berlin based artist Maria Victoria Rodriguez alongside the risograph-printed Communist Reader from Berlin-Vienna publisher Well Gedacht. Then there’s Issue 001 of Monochromator Magazine which – in what appears to be one of the all-time triumphs of cultural critique – contains a 146-page-long post-colonial analysis of the phenomenon known as…Barbenheimer.
Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: April Gertler, Flyleaf
Falschrum Books & Replika Publishing, Braunschweiger Str.16, 12045 Berlin–Neukölln; map
WirWir, Stuttgarter Str.56, 12059 Berlin–Neukölln; map
Flyleaf Book & Zine Festival (24–27.10.2024)
Thu–Fri 16–21h & Sat–Sun 12–21h
@falschrum_books
@replika.publishing
@wirwirberlin
