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Love, jealousy, resurrection, changing tires, fruit and vegetables, stockfish, nonsense, music, the eyelashes of the companion, making blue – these are just some of the many themes that have always moved the world and its poets and have found their way into the Flying Words. More than 1,500 poems from six continents, 2,600 years and…

According to the Grimm dictionary, buccaneers are “those who seize foreign property by force on the sea in order to enrich themselves, without having authority for this seizure from any state”. Pirates, corsairs and, to a certain extent, privateers are other synonymous phrases, all of which mark a counter-world, a world of freedom, audacity, adventurousness.…

 »You cannot change your century, but you can stand against it and prepare fortunate impacts.«Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ][ The desire for a better world has accompanied humanity since time immemorial. In this unique volume, Alida Bremer and Michael Krüger bring together contributions by authors and artists who, under the motto “glückliche Wirkungen” (engl.: “fortunate…

The issue of Beton International No. 2 has been published in book form in Serbia. With this issue, we have managed to gather authors from different parts of Europe and ask them to formulate their views on the last seventy years as well as on the present of our continent. While we are committed to…

With this issue of Beton International, we have managed to gather authors from different parts of Europe and ask them to express their views on the last seventy years as well as on the present of our continent. While we are committed to our continent growing together and to the borders of nation states becoming…

The anthology with contributions by Albanian, Bosnian, German, Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian authors offers well-founded historical-political, international-legal and sociological analyses of the shards left behind by Yugoslavia and points out perspectives for the Yugoslav heirs.

Theatre and television dramaturge Davor Korić writes 22 letters from Sarajevo to his wife Dragana and their children, who have fled to Germany, between July 1992 and May 1993. Korić gives a detailed account of everyday life and death during the siege of his home town. He reflects on the end of Yugoslavia, describes the…

Laura Marchig is one of the most important Italian-writing authors in Croatia. She belongs to a generation that grew up under socialism, with rock ‘n’ roll as bread for the soul, and at the same time with the language of Dante. This generation, tired and spent after the war, a war for democracy, is skilled…

“Jugosphere”? What about a common regional consciousness across the borders of the successor states in the intellectual and artistic sphere? Two decades after the disintegration of the SFR Yugoslavia, the authors of the current focus examine what Yugoslavia was and what of Yugoslavia lives on today.

For numerous authors from Germany, Croatia, the land of a thousand islands, is a place of inspiration. Ingo Schulze, Juli Zeh, Veit Heinichen, Erica Fischer, Wladimir Kaminer, Richard Wagner and many others have approached “their” Croatia humorously, thoughtfully, critically and hymnally.And they are accompanied by Croatian authors living in Germany, such as Marica Bodrožić and…