hinterlands – magazine for rural realities

hinterlands is a print magazine and network of rural reporters, that takes a stand against simplifying, biased and romanticizing ideas about rural life.
We would like to present perspectives and stories that stand out from stereotypes of the rural and bring urbanists closer to the life away from the big cities. Our magazine contains everyday narrations, historical, fictional and photographic impressions from different rural regions.
hinterlands focuses on a different color with every issue. In the first issue of “blue” you will find a wide variety of shades and interpretations of the color blue in the countryside: from water masses and sunken islands to car production under a blue logo to the “into the blue” of rural walks and blue crosses as a symbol of protest.

hinterlands magazine wants to counteract the growing gap between urban and rural social environments in Europe. We question the dominance of the urban in public discourse and stand for a transnational rethinking of local reporting.
On the one hand, the magazine is aimed at readers in urban areas across Europe who rarely encounter rural life. We would like to provide them with realistic images and impressions of life in the villages and remote regions of Europe. On the other hand, we offer a platform for rural reporters which is to shape a new, transnational type of local journalism. We want to bring journalists from rural areas together and increase their visibility.
Moreover, we want to encourage young people to become “field reporters”. Starting from the second issue of hinterlands, we plan to organize writing workshops in the countryside, the results of which will be included into the upcoming editions. For this we will work with local organizations from different countries and regions.

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Via Startnext you can pre-order hinterlands magazines “blue” issue and purchase handy rural accessories, while we can finance the production of hinterlands’ first issue with your support.

And what more?

Would you like to accompany Duygu through summer heat and nostalgia in the hinterland of the Mediterranean or take a drink with Hanna in the “Blue Mouse” on the island of Amrum? Are you interested in what life is like on an EU external frontier and would you like to know which Polish supermarket attracts most customers from Ukraine? Are you wondering why the color blue occurs so rarely in nature and what “rural feminism” looks like in Kosovo? Then you should order our first blue edition of hinterlands.
For city kids and parents as well as for eternal and temporary villagers we also offer the hinterlands survival kit in mesmerizing shades of blue.

If the financing is successful, hinterlands will be printed in spring 2020 and can then be found in various book stores in Germany, but also in other European countries and online. With your support, we will be able to cover the production costs of the “blue” issue and reward our contributors.
Further, your money will be a start support for the production of the second issue, which is to appear in late 2020. Moreover, we will offer a writing workshop for young people in rural areas, and include the results in the second issue.