''De Groene Amsterdammer'' () is an independent Dutch weekly

news magazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio, or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories in greater depth than newspapers or new ...

published in

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

. It is one of the five independent opinion magazines in the Netherlands, alongside '' HP/De Tijd'', '' Vrij Nederland'', ''

Elsevier Elsevier ( ) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as ''The Lancet'', ''Cell (journal), Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, ...

'' and the Jewish weekly '' NIW.''

History and profile

''De Groene Amsterdammer'' was founded in 1877, Martin van Amerongen was the editor-in-chief from 1984 to 1997 and then again from 1999 to 2002. ''De Groene Amsterdammer'' making it one of the oldest Dutch news magazines still in existence. The magazine started under the name ''De Amsterdammer'', meaning "someone (or something) from Amsterdam". In its early days green ink was used, later causing the word ''groene'' (green) to be added to its name when a second newspaper in Amsterdam was published under the same name ''De Amsterdammer''. The name ''De Groene Amsterdammer'' became official in 1925. As its title implies the weekly is based in

. During the German occupation between 1940 and 1945, the magazine ceased to exist. Over the course of time the magazine manifested itself in Dutch media with a wide range of subjects being published about, varying from philosophy, politics and literature to the

liberal arts Liberal arts education () is a traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''skill, art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts. ''Liberal arts education'' can refe ...

. ''De Groene Amsterdammer'', unlike its name suggests, shows a keen interest in international subjects, with a network of freelance

correspondents A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

in various countries over the world. The weekly magazine is generally considered to be

intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the wor ...

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

and progressive. As of 2022, it has a circulation of 27,904.

Notable editors

* Anil Ramdas * Anna Blaman * Dirk Bezemer * Fred Mulders *

Frederik van Eeden Frederik Willem van Eeden (3 April 1860, Haarlem – 16 June 1932, Bussum) was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing amo ...

* Geert Mak * Henk Hofland * Loe de Jong * Martin van Amerongen * Simon Carmiggelt * Theodor Holman

Previous editors-in-chief

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Groene Amsterdammer, De 1877 establishments in the Netherlands Political magazines published in the Netherlands Dutch-language magazines Weekly magazines published in the Netherlands Magazines established in 1877 Magazines published in Amsterdam News magazines published in Europe