Volume 2: Summer 2015
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Mat Wilkinson Welcome back to The Freiburg Review. Like our first volume, I hope you’ll indulge yourself in the many worlds and characters created from the minds of our twenty-one contributors. Volume 2 features new flash fiction, poetry, photography, and short stories, as well as a big scoop: an interview with American writer Ishmael Reed, a figure as controversial as he is acclaimed. Reed tells us about the time he interviewed Malcolm X, his views on the current situation of black American writers, and how he blends jazz, foreign languages, and cartoons to create his stories. But before I let you wander through the minds of this volume’s characters, a little story: The Freiburg Review is actually almost a hundred years old! A friend of mine was searching for our website when she stumbled upon a magazine with Freiburg’s Münster printed on the front – from August 1918. It turns out that during the First World War , a group of British prisoners of war held in Freiburg published a monthly magazine also called The Freiburg Review. A research project awaits someone to comb through the archives and find out what was on the minds of these officers. Today, under much different and happier circumstances, our two volumes feature contributors from Hong Kong, Pakistan, Australia, Poland, the United States, and of course Germany. So take a seat by the Dreisam with your copy of the magazine and immerse yourself in the dilemmas of this volume’s array of characters. With them, you’ll be taken to the depths of a coal mine, sit homeless in a dirty back-lane, and contemplate life over a few quiet nights in Freiburg. You’ll wander through colonial ruins, move to a new city, overcome lost love, listen to chainsaws in the forest, hearken to the voice of America’s fathers, and relax to the rumble of a dishwasher. You’ll be merry too: you’ll bask under the late summer sun, drink wine abroad, and make love by the sea. All this and more awaits you in this very special second volume (and nearly 100th year...) of The Freiburg Review . |
CONTRIBUTORS:
FLASH FICTION Manon Henne Anna Tatjana Brenner POETRY Erica Kao William Stupp Ester Gnandt Dominique Lorraine Rebecca A. Watson Joachim Maria Nauroth Beate Kury Fabian Schwamb Clemens Benesch Josias Ender Benjamin Uhlman VISUAL ART Marco Cramer Christine Eichwald Marek Gryglewicz INTERVIEW Sophie Mathieu, Mat Wilkinson and Laura Leisinger in conversation with Ishmael Reed SHORT STORY Roy G. Biv Beate Kury David Lorenz Johannes Spörer |
