This magazine is in German language only. But for your info: Positionen presents and goes into dialogue with contemporary music and cultural practices both in the German-speaking area and internationally. The journal was founded in former East Germany in 1988 and is now run from Berlin by the Editors Andreas Engström and Bastian Zimmermann. Positionen presents thematically oriented issues with essays, portraits, interviews, and specials as well as a variety of “Positionen” (“Positions”): Comments on contemporary discourses in recordings, books, festivals, concerts, exhibitions as well as musical aspects in e.g. the visual arts, fashion, and performance.n, and performance.

Now based in Berlin, Positionen is published four times a year. In addition, articles and reviews are published online, too.

Positio=nen #119:  Unlearning

• Bastian Zimmerman:  Körper unter Druck – Interview mit Raphael Sbrzesny
• Genoël von Lilienstern: Hörempfehlungen
• Thomas Groetz: Popkultur in der Neuen Musik: Nichts als Trash?
• Rupert Enticknap: Would Mozart wear Balenciaga?
• Giuliano Obici:  Taking care of editions – Interview with Gary Schultz‍
• Special: Musikalische Zeitfragen II  Die Avantgarde lebt!
• ‍Patrick Frank:  Affirmative Kritik – eine Skizze
• Juliana Hodkinson:  – Hören und Komponieren mit performativen Objekten und Subjekten
• Rolf Großmann: – Materialexplosion und Avantgardeanspruch