network veterans look back When a handful of editors of European Cultural Journals first got together in 1983, they could not have imagined that the network they had initiated would still be going strong 25 years later. Network veterans look back on the history of a community that has endured.
Editors of all countries
network veterans Olivier Corpet was present at the European meetings of cultural journals from the very start. Writing in 1986, the founding editor of "La Revue des Revues" reported on a movement that was steadily gaining momentum. [ more ]
Thesis, antithesis, prosthesis
network veterans Johan Öberg, former editor of Swedish journal "Ord&Bild" and organizer of the Gothenburg meeting in 1992, recalls the network's successes and failures – and retells a strange story about a legless Finn. [ more ]
Neither an editor nor a European
network veterans Writer and journalist George Blecher's first European meeting of Cultural journals was in Berlin in 1989. He has been coming back ever since – despite his being neither an editor nor a European. [ more ]
Fin de Siécle, the Moscow agreement, and the dawn of the twenty-first century
network veterans For Walter Famler, the European Meetings of Cultural Journals have been an inducement to carry on in the journals business – and an opportunity to pursue a variety of less official interests. [ more ]
Reinventing Europe
network veterans Eurozine has expanded the scope for bringing together intellectuals from eastern and western Europe – a concern as relevant today as it was directly after 1989, writes Klaus Nellen. [ more ]
Three strokes of luck
network veterans Gaby Zipfel, editor of "Mittelweg 36" and pioneer of Eurozine, came to the European Meeting of European Cultural Journals in 1992 expecting to be the only woman among seasoned male professionals. And so she was – but that didn't matter. [ more ]
Being part of the gang
network veterans Contact and friendship with the publishers of European cultural journals has helped Samuel Abrahám, founding editor of "Kritika&Kontext", realize his goal of publishing a liberal journal in post-socialist Slovakia. [ more ]
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