Balkon & Garten #32

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“April April!” is what Germans say for “April Fool!” and sure enough, there are some surprises in this issue. To celebrate Balkon & Garten’s fifth anniversary, there are extra pages, a history of the magazine in photographs, and the first guest designer, Leslie Kuo.

As always, green-thumbed fans of art and literature will find plenty to look at, from Rita Zepf’s embroidered insect love scene to Sibylle Blaumann’s embroidered postcard, and plenty to read, from a short story by Simone Gülde (in collaboration with photographer Fred Hüning) - to a daring riff on T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” by songwriter Graf Tati. And of course, there are illustrations, photographs, poems and other musings on the lives of plants and the plants in our lives.

Whether you read German or not, whether your garden is in your backyard or in a flowerpot on your windowsill, this magazine has something for you. And you just might have something for this magazine: you are welcome to send your images and texts for the next issue. The theme: Frühreif, meaning both “precocious” and “premature.” Contributions should be sent to redaktion (at) balkon-garten.de by May 1.

Facts & Figures
Mission Statement: Balkon & Garten is a non-commercial, user-generated magazine about nature and culture. For each issue, readers are invited to contribute images and texts on a new theme. These reader-contributors include visual artists, designers, gardeners, musicians and writers, investigating the human longing for nature that persists in our modern world. The design changes every issue.
Founded: May 2004, by Anke Wulffen
Based in: Berlin, Germany
Editors / Designers: Anke Wulffen, with occasional guest designers
Periodicity: Bimonthly
Language: German
Format: Din A5, full color, 28 to 32 pages
Circulation: 150 hand-sewn, numbered copies
Price: SPECIAL OFFER 2,50 €
Web: balkon-garten.de
Contact: redaktion (at) balkon-garten.de