Scriptum (magazine)
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| description | Swiss literary magazine |
| publishing company | Scriptum Verlag (Rothenburg / CH) |
| First edition | June 1990 |
| attitude | March 1998 |
SCRIPTUM was a Swiss literary magazine that appeared quarterly from 1990 to 1998.
history
The literary magazine SCRIPTUM was founded in the summer of 1990 by the Swiss publicist and musician Walter Eigenmann and was published by the publisher of the same name until the beginning of 1998. In a total of 31 quarterly issues, the first publications of essays , prose texts , poems , plays , reports , interviews and reviews by over 400 well-known and less well-known writers from all over German-speaking Europe were printed. The magazine initially had the title “Neue Blätter für Literatur”, later “Das Schweizer Literaturmagazin” in its subtitle.
Long-term editorial staff in addition to the founder and publisher Eigenmann were u. a. the Swiss Germanist Mario Andreotti , the German high school teacher and book author Rainer Wedler and the Austrian writer Manfred Wieninger . SCRIPTUM saw itself not only as a platform for established writers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but also as a "springboard" for unknown or debuting authors, who often found the magazine to be the first publication organ for experimental literary styles and forms.
In terms of content, SCRIPTUM cultivated a decidedly wide range of topics, and in recent years there has also been the publication of service areas such as tenders, events, dates, etc. as well as graphic contributions (cartoons, caricatures). At times, SCRIPTUM achieved the above-average circulation of 3,000 copies and, thanks to this high level of acceptance, was able to regularly pay out authors' fees. Nevertheless, after almost eight years, the magazine was discontinued in spring 1998 due to financing and internal personnel problems.