''Kontakto'' is an

Esperanto Esperanto (, ) is the world's most widely spoken Constructed language, constructed international auxiliary language. Created by L. L. Zamenhof in 1887 to be 'the International Language' (), it is intended to be a universal second language for ...

magazine A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

published by TEJO and supported by the

Universal Esperanto Association The Universal Esperanto Association (, UEA), also known as the World Esperanto Association, is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with 5,501 individual members in 121 countries and 9,215 through national associations (i ...

(UEA). Its 6 annual issues have readers in about 100 countries of the world. It started in 1963 through a proposal of the UEA committee by

Humphrey Tonkin Humphrey R. Tonkin (born 2 December 1939) is professor of English, and served as the 4th president of the University of Hartford. He is also a dedicated Esperantist. Biography Born in Truro, England, Tonkin is a dual citizen of the U.K. and th ...

, who became its first editor in chief and who provided a magazine that touched on topics of interest to Esperanto youth. The magazine often used the slogan "In Esperanto, but not about Esperanto." In the early 1980s, Anna Lowenstein became the editor. Her contributions to the magazine included easy-to-read articles, which concerned serious topics, but were written in simple language suitable for beginning Esperanto learners. This continues to be a primary focus for the magazine.

List of editors

Stefan Maul Stefan Mario Maul (born 24 December 1958 in Aachen) is a German Assyriologist and holder of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Life Maul studied Assyriology, Near Eastern Archaeology and Egyptology at the Georg-August-Universität Götting ...

* Simo Milojevic * Giorgio Silfer (1975–1977) *

Jouko Lindstedt Jouko Lindstedt (born 15 July 1955) is a Finnish linguist and a professor at the University of Helsinki. Lindstedt is a member of the Academy of Esperanto and was nominated as the Esperantist of the Year in 2000 (with Hans Bakker and Mauro La ...

(1978) * Giulio Cappa (1978–1979) * Dario Besseghini * Anna Lowenstein * Leif Nordenstorm *

Francisco Javier Moleón Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Commu ...

(1990) *

István Ertl István () is a Hungarian language equivalent of the name Stephen or Stefan. It may refer to: People with the given name Nobles, palatines and judges royal * Stephen I of Hungary (c. 975–1038), last grand prince of the Hungarians and first k ...

(1990–1991) * Francisco Veuthey (1992–1998) * Sabira Stahlberg (1998–2001) *

Yevgenia Amis (Ĵenja Zvereva Amis) Evgenia, Evgeniya, Yevgenia or Yevgeniya is a feminine given name which may refer to: Evgenia or Evgeniya * Evgeniya Augustinas (born 1988), Russian racing cyclist * Evgeniya Belyakova (born 1986), Russian basketball player in the Women's National ...

(2002–2007) * Pavel Mozhayev (2007–2010) * Rogener Pavinski (2010-2023) *Karina Oliveira (2023-)

References

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External links

Official website of Kontakto (in Esperanto)The "Kontakto" page at the site "Gazetejo.org" (in Esperanto)
1963 establishments in the Netherlands Esperanto magazines Magazines established in 1963 Mass media in Rotterdam Monthly magazines published in the Netherlands