Swiss month

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Swiss month
Logo Swiss month
description Swiss monthly magazine
publishing company SMH Verlag AG (Switzerland)
Headquarters Zurich
First edition April 1921 (as Swiss Monthly Bulletin for Politics and Culture )
Frequency of publication 10 times a year
Sold edition 5,000–7,500 copies
(own information)
Range 0.018 million readers
(own information)
Editor-in-chief Ronnie Grob
Web link schweizermonat.ch
ISSN (print) 0036-7400

The Swiss month. The author's magazine for politics, business and culture , formerly Swiss monthly magazine , is a Swiss monthly magazine . It has been published in Zurich without interruption since 1921 and sees itself in the tradition of liberalism .

profile

The Swiss monthly claims to represent " classic liberal values such as personal responsibility, choice and freedom, federalism and direct democracy." The magazine relies "with a liberal profile and enjoyment of intellectual debate on critical discourse, on courageous authors, pronounced opinions and responsible readers". The philosopher René Scheu was the publisher and editor-in-chief until the end of 2015 , and in January 2016 the historian Florian Rittmeyer took over the entrepreneurial and journalistic management on an interim basis. Andy Fischer took over the management of the publishing house in August 2016, but left the publishing house again in May 2017. The literary scholar Michael Wiederstein headed the editorial team from September 2016 to July 2019 . In August 2019, the journalist Ronnie Grob took over the editor-in-chief.

The NZZ calls the magazine an «institution». From a “pointedly liberal perspective, it reflects on the political, economic and cultural life of Switzerland, but also Europe and beyond”, whereby liberal means “ ordoliberal ”.

Authors and interviewees

The magazine sees itself as an author's magazine in which independent heads from politics, business and culture have their say.

The spectrum of former and current authors includes:

Each issue contains lengthy conversations with

The magazine's columnists included a. the publicist Gottlieb F. Höpli , the writer Felix Philipp Ingold , the art historian Christian Saehrendt , the sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky , the management theorist Reinhard K. Sprenger , the model Xenia Tchoumitcheva and, since March 2014, the publicist Cora Stephan . In 2016, the lawyer and journalist Nadine Jürgensen , the economist and publicist Karen Horn and Christian P. Hoffmann , Professor of Communication Management, wrote columns for the magazine. A cartoon by the duo “Stoifberg / Baeriswyl” appears in every issue.

history

The magazine was founded in 1921 under the title Swiss Monthly Issues for Politics and Culture , which took a decidedly German-friendly line. From 1931 the title was Swiss monthly , in 1952 the subtitle changed to a magazine for politics, economy and culture . Most of its founders came from the Volksbund for the Independence of Switzerland and the German-speaking Swiss Language Association and advocated the state and cultural independence of Switzerland in connection with the German cultural nation. Hans Oehler , who had worked as editor of the monthly magazine since its foundation , sympathized with the Neue Front , which led to his dismissal in March 1934. Oehler's successor was Fritz Rieter , who was one of the first signatories of the entry of the 200 in 1940 . Even under his aegis, the monthly issues were initially open to contributions from exhibits from the front movement . It was not until 1941 that contributions in German became rarer.

For years after the Second World War , Rieter covered the deficits in the monthly magazines with private funds from his family. In 1966 he founded the Swiss Monthly Issues Foundation to ensure the publication of the magazine. Under a new editorial team to which u. a. When the legal scholar Dietrich Schindler , the literary theorist Hans-Jost Frey , the writer Daniel Bodmer and the political scientist Daniel Frei came across, the magazine sought a connection to a legally liberal network to which the NZZ , the Mont Pelerin Society , the suburb , the Institute for International Studies and belonged to the Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales . NZZ editors published regularly in the monthly issues , such as Carlo Mötteli and Ernst Bieri , and later also Fred Luchsinger , Willy Linder and Richard Reich , with Reich also being a board member of the association that publishes the magazine. The Ordoliberalismus was widely received. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, François Bondy and Anton Krättli shaped the editorial team that was both open-minded and culturally focused. The magazine offered many international authors from the liberal spectrum the opportunity to publish articles in the German-speaking area. Karl Popper , Ludwig von Mises , Wilhelm Röpke and Friedrich August von Hayek published exclusively in the Swiss monthly issues , but Theodor Adorno , Arnold Gehlen and Herbert Lüthy , also board members of the monthly issues , were represented with numerous essays. The Swiss monthly magazine also provided a platform for writers such as Hermann Hesse , Max Frisch , Emil Staiger , Hermann Burger , Hugo Loetscher and Adolf Muschg . In the 1990s, the two editors Robert Nef and Michael Wirth continued the liberal tradition of the magazine; it continued after 2007 under the new editors René Scheu and Suzann-Viola Renninger. From 2011 to the end of 2015 René Scheu was the sole editor.

Since March 2011, the former Swiss monthly booklet has been given the new title Swiss Month. René Scheu , at that time the publisher and editor-in-chief, positioned the new magazine in the first editorial as “objective, free, with a passion for debate”.

Literary month

In May 2011, the magazine launched its literary supplement Literary Month . The literary magazine has been included with the Swiss Month every two months since then, but has also been available as a separate subscription since March 2013. The Literary Month continues the magazine's literary tradition and is dedicated to contemporary Swiss literature . Each issue has its own thematic focus with essays on a phenomenon or a person from literary life in Switzerland . The country's writers have their say in texts and interviews , current short stories, literary essays and reviews of new publications appear in the form of short literary reviews. In the literary month published u. a. the writers Melinda Nadj Abonji , Arno Camenisch , Eveline Hasler , Vea Kaiser , Christian Kracht , Thomas Meyer , Adolf Muschg , Giovanni Orelli , Ilma Rakusa , Peter Stamm and Jonas Lüscher .

Reception Swiss monthly issues

The Swiss monthly issue played an important role in the European magazine landscape in the post-war period. Their importance began to wane in the 1970s and 1980s. After the turn of the century, efforts were made by the editors to relaunch the magazine. The circulation increased continuously and amounted to 4500 copies in September 2011 (2013 5500, 2016 6500 copies).

In 2008, Heribert Seifert commented in the NZZ that, compared to other magazines with a similar political thrust , the Swiss monthly magazine spoke with a “calm voice” and was “dignified and thoughtful”.

The Swiss monthly books (today the Swiss month ) are also read in Germany and Austria. Thomas Steinfeld named the magazine in the feature section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 31/1. August 2010 as the “central body to determine the political self-image in this country [Switzerland]”.

Reception Swiss month after relaunch in March 2011

The NZZ wrote of a “modernization push” that had captured the typeface and design: the magazine was true to the values ​​of “liberalism, market and entrepreneurship”, but “continued to stand out from the average magazine style”. In the foreground are neither “pleasant stories” nor “loudly staged research”, but “opinion-oriented contributions” and “texts aimed at debating enthusiasts”. After the relaunch, the magazine follows the traditions of the Swiss monthly magazines , which have provided “a conscience based on reason and urbanity”. The “recipe based on the tried and tested and aggressive curiosity” will be backed up by prominent authors “who have a lot to say from their own work”.

The Tages-Anzeiger places the Swiss month between Cicero and Weltwoche . He praised the “radical refreshment”.

The historian Adrian Zimmermann, who sees himself as a leftist, published a critical article in WOZ Die Wochenzeitung at the end of March 2011 on the occasion of the relaunch of the magazine. In contrast to earlier anniversary editions in 1971 and 1996, "which were quite self-critical", he accuses today's editors and editorial staff of ignoring the problematic time under the first editor-in-chief, Oehler. Zimmermann expressed the fear that the Swiss Month might not distance itself from the past "because one actually continues to see oneself in the same authoritarian and social Darwinist tradition as the founders of the SMH, but does not want to say this too openly".

From the point of view of the St. Galler Tagblatt , the Swiss Month continues the “tradition of lateral thinking” and is a “magazine that advances in many directions, certainly bourgeois in its basic tendency, but also very open to debate”.

The Swiss author and journalist Jürg Altwegg spoke in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of a “radical facelift” - the magazine offers a “diverse mix of topics and certainly also opinions”, whereby “liberalism as a program and credo” has remained. The tone of the “author's magazine in magazine format” has become “fresher, bolder and more demanding”. The reviewer found the page-sized author portraits to be offensive - “Fortunately, they stayed with black and white”. A second meeting in September 2011 emphasized the focus on content and debates such as that on the future of the European Union, a debate in which Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Michael Stürmer and Wolfgang Clement have their say.

The Bern daily newspaper Der Bund praised the “elegant and dignified appearance”, “the prominence with which the magazine adorns itself”, and called it a publication “outside the social democratic mainstream”.

The journal’s literary efforts also attract attention. The new special supplement Literary Month with a focus on Swiss literature is described by the literary critic Pia Reinacher as a "thorn in the flesh of the established Swiss-German feuilletons".

Artist

From 2003 to 2011, each issue featured a visual artist with around eight full-page images of his works and an essay by Suzann-Viola Renninger ; These included Jim Avignon , Hans Danuser , Thomas Huber , Roman Signer , Annelies Štrba and Beat Zoderer . Since 2011 Johannes M. Hedinger has been leading in the What makes art? Conversations with artists such as The Yes Men , Hansruedi Giger , Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger , Bazon Brock , Ingeborg Lüscher and Hans Ulrich Obrist , but also with art scholars such as Beat Wyss , Heike Munder and Jens Badura .

literature

  • Thomas Speaker : Swiss Month 1921–2012. A history of the magazine. SMH Verlag AG, Zurich 2013.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c advertising. In: Website of the Swiss Month .
  2. ↑ Profile. In: Swiss month . Retrieved December 3, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Mission statement. In: Swiss month . Retrieved December 3, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Swiss month. Florian Rittmeyer succeeds René Scheu. In: persoenlich.com . 17th December 2015.
  5. ^ Christian Beck: Swiss month. Publishing director Andy Fischer leaves again. In: persoenlich.com. 15th March 2017.
  6. ↑ New team at SMH Verlag AG ( Memento from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: Swiss month.
  7. ↑ https://www.persoenlich.com/medien/ronnie-grob-wird-chefredaktor-vom-schweizer-monat
  8. ↑ a b c Urs Hafner: Money for Spirit. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 13, 2013 (via Thomas Spokesman: Swiss Month 1921–2012. A History of the Journal. SMH-Verlag, Zurich 2013).
  9. ^ Alfred Cattani : Kaleidoscope of the decades. A balance in the mirror of the Swiss monthly bulletins. In: Swiss monthly books. No. 7/8, 1996, p. 12.
  10. ^ Hans Rudolf Fuhrer: Rieter, Fritz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on December 3, 2011.
  11. ↑ Andrea Franc: Switzerland, felt and neoliberalism. In: Swiss month . February 2013, accessed February 21, 2012 .
  12. ↑ We're reinventing ourselves ... In: Swiss Month . March 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  13. ↑ Editorial. In: Swiss month . March 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  14. ^ Raphael Waldvogel: Special supplement of the "Swiss Month" for friends of the arts section. In: Klein Report . May 1, 2011, accessed October 16, 2012 .
  15. ^ Website of the Literary Month .
  16. ↑ a b Artur K. Vogel : Perspektiven. The newspaper of the future. In: The Bund . September 10, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  17. ↑ Heribert Seifert: Against Wischiwaschi liberalism. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 22, 2008, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  18. ^ Rainer Stadler : Golden Liberalism. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . March 3, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  19. ↑ Martin Meyer : Liberal with a fresh wind. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 22, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  20. ↑ Guido Kalberer: “Swiss Monthly Books”. New name and layout for the 90th birthday. In: Tages-Anzeiger . March 3, 2011.
  21. ↑ Why we are socialists. Contribution to a modern social democracy. In: Andreas Ladner's website. January 2004.
  22. ^ Adrian Zimmermann: The "Swiss Month" - reactionary since 1921. In: WOZ Die Wochenzeitung . March 31, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Rolf App: Stimulating Thoughts. In: St. Galler Tagblatt . July 12, 2011.
  24. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: That is the love of cannibals. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 20, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .
  25. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Pickles, energy-saving lamps and a whiskey as a fee. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 23, 2011, accessed December 3, 2011 .