Edition Otzvuk (Bulgarian for “Echo”) is the new imprint of Wolke Verlag, dedicated to publishing anti-fascist works in both their historical and contemporary forms.
At the heart of this approach is a publishing practice that views texts not as self-contained units, but as part of an ongoing continuum: historical and contemporary works resonate with one another, shifting their contexts and becoming legible anew in the present. Translation plays a central role in this process—not merely as a linguistic rendering, but as a form of contextualization and updating.
The Otzvuk series brings together theoretical, literary, essayistic, and artistic works that do not merely depict social reality but reveal its contradictions. The aim is to foster forms of thought that do not separate criticism from practice.
In this context, publishing is understood as a political practice: as an intervention in existing discourses and as a contribution to a critical public sphere. The focus is particularly on the contexts of (post-)socialist societies in Eastern and Southeastern Europe—specifically as a central component of global debates on authoritarian and fascist tendencies.
The selection of works follows a programmatic approach that brings marginalized and previously overlooked voices to the forefront in order to place them in new contexts.
The imprint is conceived and curated by Bulgarian artist and curator Kalas Liebfried and published in collaboration with Patrick Becker.
The series kicks off with the first German translation of Želju Želev’s Fascism (1968), an early and still-relevant analysis of totalitarian power structures, which was written under communist rule in Bulgaria and for years was available only through unofficial channels.
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The books in the Edition Otzvuk series are published and distributed by Wolke Verlag. In addition to our own online store, they are available to brick-and-mortar and online bookstores through our distributor, Runge (MVB code: 6245645).
Kalas Liebfried is a Bulgarian curator and artist. He is the artistic director of the municipal art gallery for international contemporary art, Lothringer 13, in Munich. Liebfried is the initiator and director of the transnational exhibition and research project Antifascism: Now. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and numerous partner institutions (including the Athens Epidaurus Festival, MSU Zagreb, and the Historical Museum of Sarajevo), the project examines antifascist cultural work as a democratic imperative of the present in 14 cities across Eastern Europe and Germany.
Liebfried studied philosophy and art history at LMU Munich, as well as sculpture and time-based media at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK Munich). His work has been recognized with awards including the City of Munich’s Fine Arts Grant and the Project Grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation.
He is a co-founder of the NEBYULA art space, which focuses on international forms of community work. With the founding of Fragments of Sonic Extinction (www.sonicextinction.net) – an ongoing, interactive publication platform and event series addressing the current extinction of natural soundscapes – he has built a growing global community of sound artists. As part of the project, 24 works have been commissioned and published in three editions to date.
As an editor at 20 Seconds Magazine and a regular contributor to Positionen – Texts on Contemporary Music , he is expanding his practice to include long-form cultural journalism.
Photo: Christian Kain.
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