Fabrikzeitung is published ten times a year from Zürich, with authors from Switzerland and beyond reporting on the contexts, sideshows, and interrelationships that are underrepresented in mainstream media. The magazine commits itself to social, political, cultural, and historical subjects, creating a forum for themed dialogue that is never considered complete — because such dialogues, by their nature, never are.
Each issue takes the reader to what the editors call odd locations and uncharted new ground — not in the geographic sense, necessarily, but in the intellectual sense. The subjects are the ones that daily journalism does not have the time, the space, or the inclination to pursue: the slow-burning questions, the structural problems, the cultural phenomena that require more than a headline to understand.
Published from a city that is simultaneously one of the wealthiest and most culturally restless in Europe, Fabrikzeitung — literally "factory newspaper" — carries its working-class name with pride. It is a publication that believes the most important conversations are the ones that do not fit into the news cycle, and that the role of an independent magazine is to host those conversations for as long as they need to last.