Schreibkraft is an Austrian literary magazine, which has been founded in 1998 by the Literature Council of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz

Graz

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 (Styria). The magazine prints feature articles. Since 1999 the edition schreibkraft is the publisher. Schreibkraft appears twice a year.

Every issue has a specific topic. The essay

Essay

An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...

s and feature articles

Feature story

- Published Features & news :While the distinction between published features and news is often clear, when approached conceptually there are few hard boundaries between the two. It is quite possible to write a feature in the style of a news story, for instance...

 are chosen by the five editors (Hermann Götz, Robert Hutter, Hannes Luxbacher, Andreas R. Peternell, Werner Schandor). In addition, the magazine publishes some narrative texts and book reviews; the latter review primarily books from small publishing houses.

Published authors stem from Austria, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 and Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. E.g. the following authors have published in Schreibkraft: Bettina Balàka, Moritz Baßler, Julian Blunk, Helwig Brunner, Thomas E. Brunnsteiner, Martin Büsser], Ann Cotten, Julius Deutschbauer & Gerhard Spring, Hans Durrer, Klaus Ebner

Klaus Ebner

Klaus Ebner is an Austrian writer, essayist, poet, and translator. Born and raised in Vienna, he began writing at an early age. He started submitting stories to magazines in the 1980s, and also published articles and books on software topics after 1989. Ebner's poetry is written in German and...

, Helmut Eisendle, Bernhard Flieher, Franzobel

Franzobel

Franzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer Stefan Griebl. He was born on March 1, 1967 in Vöcklabruck. He now lives in Vienna.- Books :* Der Wimmerldrucker. Ein Lexikaroman. Eigenverlag, 1990....

, Harald A. Friedl, Brigitte Fuchs, Egyd Gstättner, Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is an Austrian writer. He is most widely known for his crime fiction novels featuring detective Simon Brenner, three of which were made into films...

, Sonja Harter, Klaus_Händl, Christian Ide Hintze, Paulus Hochgatterer, Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...

, Ralf B. Korte, Christian Loidl, Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...

, Gisela Müller, Andreas Okopenko

Andreas Okopenko

Andreas Okopenko was an Austrian writer.Andreas Okopenko's father was a Ukrainian physician and his mother was Austrian. From 1939, the family lived in Vienna. After studying chemistry at the University of Vienna Okopenko was active in the industry. Starting from 1950 he dedicated himself...

, Andreas R. Peternell, Claus Philipp, Peter Piller, Rosemarie Poiarkov, Wolfgang Pollanz, Birgit Pölzl, Manfred Prisching, Peter Rosei

Peter Rosei

Peter Rosei is an Austrian literary writer.Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968...

, Werner Schandor, Ferdinand Schmatz, Katja Schmid, Helmuth Schönauer, Franz Schuh

Franz Schuh

Franz Schuh may refer to:*Franz Schuh , Austrian writer*Franz Schuh , Austrian physician...

, Werner Schwab

Werner Schwab

Werner Schwab was an Austrian playwright and visual artist.From 1978 to 1982 he studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. During the 1980s he worked as a sculptor and woodcutter....

, Gudrun Sommer, Enno Stahl, Christine Werner

Christine Werner

Christine Werner is an Austrian writer. She is the author of dramas, literary cabaret, radio plays, net art, photographic art, poetry and narrative prose.-Biography:...

, Serjoscha Wiemer, and Christiane Zintzen.