Hanser-Verlag is separating from the magazine “Akzente”

The Hanser publishing house separates from the magazine “Akzente”, one of the central literary sources of inspiration in the post-war republic. Without them the publishing house would not have become what it is today.

The sentence with which Jo Lendle, the publishing director of Hanser-Verlag, described the magazine Accents from his company’s program and from his personal editorship, did not sound convincing: they had “decided to give it to new care, where it would appear in the future in a tried and tested manner and with new impulses”. The magazine, which focuses primarily on literature and poetry, has actually proven itself in the past: it has been around for seventy years, initially edited by Walter Höllerer and Hans Bender, later by Michael Krüger.