CURT belongs to a distinctly German tradition: the free city culture magazine, distributed in bars, cafés, record shops, and cultural venues, covering the local scene with the insider knowledge and editorial passion that only genuinely local media can provide. The publication covers music, art, nightlife, food, and the cultural life of its city with a voice that is engaged, opinionated, and entirely independent of the mainstream press.
What makes CURT valuable is its rootedness. The editors and contributors are part of the communities they cover, and the stories they tell are the ones that national media overlooks — the new venue opening in a former industrial space, the artist collective setting up in a cheap neighbourhood, the local band that deserves an audience beyond the city limits. The writing is accessible, often funny, and always written with the conviction that what happens locally matters as much as what happens nationally.
In a German media landscape dominated by national titles, CURT makes the case for the hyperlocal — the argument that the most important cultural stories are often the ones happening in your own city, told by people who know the streets by name and the bartenders by first name.