DAS MAGAZIN is one of the oldest and most respected cultural magazines in the German-speaking world, published from Switzerland with a editorial voice that is intelligent, elegant, and consistently surprising. The publication covers literature, art, culture, politics, and the intellectual life of the German-speaking world with the depth and ambition that only a magazine with decades of accumulated editorial authority can afford.
The writing is the centrepiece — long-form essays, profiles, reportage, and fiction by some of the best writers in the German language. The visual presentation is refined without being austere, giving the text the space it needs while maintaining a design sensibility that rewards careful looking as well as careful reading.
In a media landscape that favours brevity and speed, DAS MAGAZIN makes the opposite argument: that the most important stories are the ones that take time to tell, and that a publication with a long history has a particular obligation to maintain the standards that earned it that history in the first place. The magazine has been meeting that obligation for decades, and shows no signs of stopping.