''Perlentaucher'' is a German
online magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer mag ...
. It was founded and is being published by Anja Seeliger and Thierry Chervel and has been available since March 15, 2000.
The magazine styles itself as a culture magazine, with its main focus on
German culture
The culture of Germany has been shaped by major intellectual and popular currents in Europe, both religious and secular. Historically, Germany has been called ''Das Land der Dichter und Denker'' (the country of poets and thinkers). German cultu ...
and
feuilleton and a daily overview of
book reviews
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A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit.
A book review may be a primary source, opinion piece, summary review or scholarly revi ...
that have been published in a range of
main German newspapers. With more than 500.000 visits per month Perlentaucher claims to be the biggest culture magazine in Germany.
In 2003, Perlentaucher was awarded the prestigious
Grimme Award for online journalism, the jury calling it a ''"one-of-a-kind 'journal of journals'"''.
Another online magazine run by Perlentaucher Medien was the English-language signandsight.com. ''Signandsight'' was first published in 2005, bringing a news digest of articles on European cultural topics. It was discontinued in March 2012 due to the presently unfavourable "economic climate".
[Anja Seeliger, Thierry Chervel: ]
Signandsight.com sagt Goodbye
'. From: perlentaucher.de. 28 March 2012. Accessed on 29 March 2012.
The Perlentaucher magazine also cooperates with the website Salon run by the Slovak organisation
Project Forum {{Infobox company
, name = Project Forum ,
, type = non-profit organisation,
, foundation = (2006)
, location_city = Bratislava
, location_country = Slovakia
, industry = non-profit
, homepage www.salon.eu.sk
Project Forum is a non-profit o ...
.
Footnotes
External links
www.perlentaucher.depublished in German
www.signandsight.compublished in English (Archive 2005–2012)
2000 establishments in Germany
Cultural magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
Magazines established in 2000
Magazines published in Berlin
Online magazines
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