Merkur (magazine)

The Mercury (Subtitles: German magazine for European thought ) is a appearing in Stuttgart Klett - Cotta monthly magazine in paperback format.

History

The " Mercury " has been published since 1947 and 2011 had a circulation of about 4,500 copies. Since 1968, he appears in the Klett- Cotta Verlag, the 1978 Ernst H. Klett Foundation Mercury erected to safeguard the existence and independence of the journal.

The first editors were Hans Joachim Paeschke and Moras. Paeschke led 's Journal 1947 until 1978. From 1979 to 1983 Hans Schwab - Felisch was the editor, since 1984, Karl Heinz Bohrer, the 1991 Kurt Scheel stepped aside. Since 2012 Christian Demand acts as publisher. In 1990, the editorial was awarded the German Critics Prize. The editorial office was moved in 1998 from Munich to Berlin.

The New German Biography evaluated the leaf in cross-section as follows: In a first phase until the early 1950s, the " Mercury " was liberal - conservative, with a strong emphasis on the cultural. 1948-1962 was his publisher, the German publishing house. In a second, national- liberal -called phase it opened more political issues, especially the German reunification. In a third, the left - liberal -called phase since the early 1960s, when it Paeschke in the face of a necessary Publisher change to Kiepenheuer & Petrovich successful in maintaining the independent status of the journal, the student movement, emancipation pedagogy and Ostpolitik were important, as well as philosophical and aesthetic issues.

Paeschke was in 1947 in the 1st issue announces the following: The paper deals with the recognition of a German debt, it turns against verbal radicalism and utopianism and tries to gather " tensions and contrasts ." A combination of Francophilia and Anglo-Saxon pragmatism and the concrete testing political and aesthetic views and arguments was typical. What some readers criticized as contradictions, was for Paeschke the force of a " counter-effect ". He himself published as editor relatively little, about 30 posts. The paper as a whole was in concept and composition his work, and also in many of the essays close associates he was present, by developing the themes in detailed letters and discussed, suggestions and criticisms were expressed. The main authors he were Gottfried Benn, Arnold Gehlen, Ernst Robert Curtius, Margret Boveri, Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Jean Amery, Georg Picht and Jürgen Habermas.

Content

The culture magazine serving the themes politics, aesthetics, history, philosophy, economics, society, art and literature. It describes itself in its orientation as " antiutopisch " and " liberal". The essays have a high, often academic level.

Since 1985, a double issue dedicated to a specific topic and an increased circulation has published once a year.

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