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More and more people of all languages have made\u00a0Berlin their permanent residence, cultural home and center of life \u2013 turning the German capital into a\u00a0multilingual metropolis. Not only has the city been repeatedly depicted within numerous prominent, renowned literary works, but with various international authors choosing it as their actual living place, Berlin has now become a major center of world literature and so in 2016 this online literary magazine\u00a0was founded to present\u00a0Berlin\u2019s multilingual contemporary literature and to create a platform for all future activities of stadtsprachen<\/em> and its partners.<\/p>\n

After eight years of stadtsprachen magazin,<\/em> a total of 852 texts in 56 languages are now – as of January 2026 – freely accessible online for all interested parties: this means that 583 authors and 297 translators from Berlin have contributed to this online magazine so far – and the number is growing every week! In addition, since the beginning of 2017, we have been able to realize a total of 72 multilingual live presentations of our multilingual reading series PARATAXE throughout Berlin (and beyond), with a total of 310 guest authors (176 f \/ 127 m \/ 7 div) appearing, 192 experts (100 f \/ 84 m \/ 8 div) visiting us and 128 translators (72 f \/ 55 m \/ 1 div) participating in these events. Although this is and will remain a digital online magazine for good reasons, we have also resorted to printed publications a few times, namely in 2019 with the journal PARATAXE<\/em> as issue #9 and in 2022 with #20 as the anthology texthelden<\/em>, as well as in 2024 with the documentary photo book Anything but Ordinary<\/em><\/a> by our photographer Graham Hains about our work (the official book premiere was in February 2025). In summer 2026 we publish as a special edition a bilingual (Greek-German) anthology<\/a> book as #36 of our stadtsprachen magazin<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We consider it to be crucial to finally raise public awareness for the multilingualism of contemporary Berlin literature by highlighting its influences on the German literary scene as well as its international influence and interrelations: We present Berlin\u2019s multilingual contemporary literature at the moment of its creation.<\/p>\n

Editorial Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Martin Jankowski<\/a> (Editor-in-Chief)
\nFranco Marcucci<\/a> (Art Direction from #33 on, Editorial Office)
\nBirger Hoyer<\/a> (Editorial Office, Editing, Communications)
\nLars Jongeblod<\/a> (Production)
\nChiara Schimpe<\/a> (Communications, Editorial Office, Media)
\nJoey Bahlsen<\/a> (Art Direction until #32, Editorial Office, Translations)<\/p>\n

We would also like to thank:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Design: Carolin Riedel
\n<\/strong>Programming\/IT: Jan Kossick<\/strong><\/a>
\nPhotography: Graham Hains<\/strong><\/a>
\nand all other contributors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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