bref (magazine)

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bref magazine
Bref Magazin, the magazine of the Reformed, Switzerland
description The Reformed Magazine
language German
publishing company Reformed Media (Switzerland)
Headquarters Zurich
First edition 15th January 2016
Frequency of publication Fortnightly
Editor-in-chief Oliver Demont, Vanessa Buff (Deputy)
editor Reformed media
executive Director Pascale Huber
Web link brefmagazin.ch
ISSN (print) 1420-9934

bref is a bi-weekly  magazine  from Switzerland. It was founded in 2016 and is published by the Reformed Media , the publishing house of the Protestant Reformed churches in German-speaking Switzerland based in Zurich .

The magazine deals with topics from the areas of church, religion, culture and society and contains reports, interviews, essays, columns and book reviews. The editorial team works according to journalistic standards and the journalistic principles of the Reformed Media .

concept

The magazine wants to allow sufficient space for the exchange of views in the field of theology, church, religion, ethics and society and therefore presents a spectrum of opinions. Value is placed on an independent design and visual language.

Staff and authors

As an author's magazine for religion, culture and society, well-known authors regularly publish in bref, u. a. the publicist Klara Obermüller , the Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Etter , the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize winner Erwin Koch , the author Tobias Haberl and the journalist and writer Barbara Lukesch . In 2016, the blogger and atheist Kafi Freitag was a columnist at bref, which caused controversy within the evangelical reformed churches. Kafi Freitag was followed by the blogger and journalist Kübra Gümüşay , the theologian Bruno Amatruda and Yves Kugelmann , editor-in-chief of the Jewish magazines Tachles and Aufbau . The writer and Georg Büchner Prize winner Sibylle Lewitscharoff , the Reformed pastor Roland Diethelm and the poet and Ingeborg Bachmann Prize winner Nora Gomringer have been writing alternately since 2019 . In the Camenisch category , the Swiss photographer Reto Camenisch showed a picture from his work and added a personal note.

Monothematic editions

The beauty of suffering

A monothematic issue was published on March 18, 2016 on the topic of pain don't let up! Easter focus: The beauty of suffering . Authors such as Philipp Tingler and Michèle Binswanger discuss the topic in seven stations .

Unconditional basic income

For the federal referendum on an unconditional basic income, bref published under the title Money from the State for Being Human. Really now? an interview edition with 14 women who were concerned about the unconditional basic income.

Kurt Marti

A special edition with texts by Klara Obermüller , Franz Hohler , Nora Gomringer , Adolf Muschg , Zsuzsanna Gahse , Christoph Geiser , Ruth Schweikert , Lukas Hartmann , Mariella Mehr , Monica Cantieni , Guy Krneta , Zoë was published on the occasion of the 96th birthday of the Reformed pastor Kurt Marti Jenny , Beat Sterchi , Patti Basler and Pedro Lenz .

Zwingli, Switzerland 2019, FSK from 12 years

The journalist Susann Sitzler and the photographer Michel Gilgen accompanied the production of the movie Zwingli for a year . It is one of the most expensive films ever made in Switzerland and shows the life of the reformer Huldrych Zwingli , who began his service as a people priest on January 1, 1519 at the Grossmünster in Zurich.

Christians in Syria, a Passion Story

Photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Etter uses the example of Garabet and Rosa Nasri from Raqqa to show how Christians in Syria were able to survive under the Islamic State. The report was created in cooperation with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit / Christ & Welt. New criteria for checking facts and circumstances were also applied. The background was the scandal surrounding the Spiegel journalist Claas Relotius , who had partly invented reports.

Cooperation Die Zeit / Christ & Welt

Since autumn 2017 there has been a text cooperation with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit / Christ & Welt in Berlin.

Awards

  • 2nd Prize of the Other Times Journalist Prize 2017: Susanne Leuenberger for a winter journey , bref No. 06/2017
  • Shortlist of the Anna Lindh Foundation Mediterranean Journalist Award 2017: Kübra Gümüşay for Der Rest was Schweigen , bref No. 09/2017

Attitude debate

On September 21, 2017, the Synodal Council of the Reformed Churches in Bern-Jura-Solothurn decided to leave the Reformed Media Association at the end of 2018. The association is also the publisher of the bref magazine . The executive body names the magazine as the reason for leaving . The reasoning states that the contents of the magazine are largely convincing [...], but the topics dealt with in it do little to provide up-to-date information and current background knowledge about theology and religion and related social and cultural issues as well as about to mediate the individual member churches. Against this background, the costs of publishing would be disproportionate to the benefits of the magazine. No statements were made about the costs. Various media subsequently reported on the exit. In an interview, Christoph Weber-Berg , President of the Reformed Media , criticized the decision of the Synodal Council of the Reformed Churches in Bern-Jura-Solothurn. At the General Assembly on June 13, 2018, the majority of the members voted in favor of bref .

History of publication

At the beginning of 2016, bref replaced the previous product, the Reformed Press .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journalistic principles. Reformed Media, August 31, 2004 (PDF; 31 kB).
  2. ^ Judith Wipfler: Blogger Kafi Freitag in the reformed magazine Bref. SRF , March 13, 2016, accessed January 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Jörg Meier: This atheist writes columns in the Kirchenblatt - that causes red heads in Aargau. In: az Aargauer Zeitung . May 20, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Money from the state for human existence. Really now? In: bref. April 29, 2016 (PDF; 2.23 MB).
  5. ↑ «bref» magazine brings a special edition to Kurt Marti. In: ref.ch . January 25, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Daniel Etter: Christians in Syria: In Paradise . In: The time . April 18, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 18, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Which works have recently received awards? “Other places” was the theme of the 2017 Andere Zeiten journalist award. Other times, accessed on 19 July 2017 .
  8. ↑ Regina salanova: Nominees announced for the 10th Anniversary landmark edition of the Mediterranean Journalist Award. Anna Lindh Foundation, December 1, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Bern Synodal Council terminates membership in the Reformed Media. In: ref.ch. October 24, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  10. ^ Termination of membership in the Reformed Media Association. Justification of the decision of the Synodal Council. Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn, October 2017 (PDF; 26 kB).
  11. ^ Judith Wipfler: dispute over reformed communication. SRF, November 5, 2017, accessed November 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Antonia Moser: Reformed Media - It's getting tight for the «bref». In: Radio SRF 2 Kultur . Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  13. ↑ The Synodal Council Bern-Jura-Solothurn withdraws. In: az Solothurn newspaper . October 26, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  14. ^ Reformed media: Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn get out. In: persoenlich.com . October 24, 2017. Retrieved November 9, 2017 .
  15. ↑ «We will fight». In: reformed. October 31, 2017, accessed November 10, 2017 .
  16. ^ The reformed magazine "Bref" receives a lifeline. Accessed on October 12, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).