Berlinische Monatsschrift

The Berlinische monthly magazine is a magazine which was published in Berlin in the years 1783-1796. It was released by the Enlightenment Johann Erich Biester and Friedrich Gedike, ( in 1791 resigned from the editorial board ), and served primarily as a mouthpiece of the Berlin Wednesday Society, an aristocratic - bourgeois enlightened reform movement at the time of Frederick the Great. It is considered the preferred magazine of Immanuel Kant, mainly due to the debates around the question: " What is Enlightenment? ".

The successor of this journal were the organs of beasts alone issued Berlinischen sheets (1797-1798) as well as the product marketed by Friedrich Nicolai New Berlinische monthly magazine ( 1799-1811 ).

The 58 volumes of the Berlinischen monthly magazine and its successor sheets ( all together approx 30300 pages) were digitized by the library of the University of Bielefeld in 1998 and made ​​available on the internet. They were distributed on two CD -ROMs in 1999 by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim.

From April 1992 to June / July 2001, a magazine of the same name was released by Luis Municipal Education Association eV, which should continue the tradition of the historical model and reported mainly on aspects of the history of Berlin.