Merkur (magazine)

Merkur
Frequency Monthly
Circulation 4,800
Publisher Klett Cotta
Year founded 1947 (1947)
Country Germany
Based in Stuttgart
Language German

Merkur, subtitled Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken, is Germany's leading intellectual review, published monthly in Stuttgart by Klett Cotta.[1]

History and profile

Merkur has been published since 1947 and had an edition of approximately 4,800 copies as of July 2011.[1] The magazine was formerly headquartered in Munich.[2]

In the course of its history, many influential scholars and public intellectuals have written for Merkur. Among them were philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, and Axel Honneth, or sociologists such as Arnold Gehlen, Niklas Luhmann, Hans Joas, and Dirk Baecker, but also writers such as Ingeborg Bachmann, Ilse Aichinger, Alfred Andersch, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Kathrin Röggla. Merkur has been able to gather voices from both the left and the right, which is unusual in the divisive German intellectual landscape.

In January 2016, the 800th issue has been published.[3]

See also

List of magazines in Germany

References

  1. 1 2 Economy Point. "Merkur (magazine)". Economy-point.org. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
  2. ↑ Western Europe 2003. Psychology Press. 30 November 2002. p. 294. ISBN 978-1-85743-152-0. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Klett-Cotta. "MERKUR 2016". Retrieved 29 December 2015.
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