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The ZS was founded in 1923 under the title Zürcher Student. Switzerland’s oldest student newspaper looks back on an eventful past: it was initially intended as a nationalist publication. In the 1960s, the paper took a sharp left turn and changed its name to Zürcher Studentin, linguistically transitioning from a male student to a female one. At some point, it lost all interest in politics and developed financial troubles. The end seemed nigh but did not come. In 2006, the newspaper decided to go by “ZS”, which remains its name to the present day. external page To the issues 1923–ff.

IQ: Quartalsinfo für Uni und ETH: external page To the issues 1993–2006

Das Konzept: die Monatszeitung: external page To the issues 1972–1982

Published by the Catholic Church with changing titles between 1938 and 1999, the periodicals Der Filmberater and Zoom are two of Switzerland’s most significant and long-lived publications about film. In the beginning, both periodicals still had a preservationist focus, but from the 1970s onwards, they primarily discussed the aesthetic aspects of films.

Der Filmberater became the medium of choice of the Swiss Catholic People’s Association film commission in 1941. Its Protestant counterpart, Zoom, was published since 1948 by the communion of reformed churches of German-speaking Switzerland for the purpose of church work on film, radio and television. In 1973, the two publications merged to form the ecumenical external page Zoom-Filmberater, which was later continued under the title of external page Zoom.

Der Filmberater: external page To the issues 1938–1972

Zoom: external page To the issues 1948–1972

Der Postheiri was published between 1845 and 1875. Initially a supplement of a Solothurn-based weekly, it became an independent periodical in 1847. Although its publisher, Alfred Hartmann, discontinued the satirical journal in 1875, it became a permanent part of Solothurn’s cultural identity. Der Postheiri owed its nationwide popularity not least to its caricatures. As a people-oriented, satirical publication, it commented on current affairs, developments, opinions and fears. It did not have a clear political orientation, although certain articles expressed moderate liberal views.

external page To the issues 1845–1875

Judaica is the oldest German-language journal on Judaism. It was first published in 1945 by order of the Verein der Freunde Israels, Schweizer Judenmission zu Basel. Its publisher was Robert Brunner in collaboration with Walther Eichrodt and Gottlob Schrenk. The Zürcher Institut für Interreligiösen Dialog discontinued the journal after issue 4/2018. Its successor, the publication external page Judaica – Neue digitale Folge, has been published by the Bern University Library as an open-access journal since 2020.

external page To the issues 1945–2018

Tsantsa is the academic journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society. Since its foundation in 1996, it has been dedicated to current issues and debates in anthropology. Tsantsa publishes theoretically rigorous, ethnographic articles in the fields of social and cultural anthropology. It is dedicated to advancing and critically discussing concepts from social anthropology. As a trilingual journal in German, French and English, Tsantsa mediates and translates between the various theoretical traditions.

external page To the issues 1996–ff.

Ethnologica Helvetica was published by the Swiss Ethnological Society between 1979 and 1997. It contained information about the topics, issues and approaches of ethnology while providing an insight into ethnology in Switzerland.

external page To the issues 1979–1997

The almanac of the Geographische Gesellschaft von Bern replaced the society’s annual report from 1973 onwards. Until then, its external page annual report had published news from the society alongside academic contributions. For financial reasons, however, the two were separated. The society news, which included discussions of lectures held within the society, appeared in external page Berner Geographischen Mitteilungen, the new bulletin of the Geographische Gesellschaft von Bern. Scientific content was published in the society’s almanac instead. The increased collaboration with the University of Bern’s department of geography further allowed the publishers to produce supplements to the almanac.

Almanac of the Geographische Gesellschaft Bern: external page To the issues 1973–ff.

Supplement to the almanac of the Geographische Gesellschaft von Bern: external page To the issues 1975–1982

Collage is the official, multilingual periodical of the Fachverband für Schweizer Raumplanung. Politically independent, it presents a wide range of topics from the broad field of urban planning and information about events and publications in six colourful issues a year. As a platform for its members, Collage also publishes messages from the association’s board and committees.

external page To the issues 1994–ff.

Pamphlet is an annual series of publications about the teaching and research of Christophe Girot, Chair of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zürich.

external page To the issues 2005–ff.

The Swiss Society for Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology (SGA) published its journal from 1973 to 2007. Since 2008, it has been published in the form of an almanac instead. With its publication, the SGA provides a platform for exchange between academia, business, administration, politics and education, focusing on the challenges currently facing the agriculture and food system from the perspective of agricultural economics and rural sociology.

external page To the issues 1973–ff.

The Schweizerdeutsch association published its eponymous journal regularly since 1977. Between 1993 and 2008, its title was Mundart. In 2013, the publication had to be discontinued for financial reasons. The Schweizerdeutsch association was founded by Adolf Guggenbühl and Eugen Dieth in 1938, just before the Second World War, under the name Bund Schwyzertütsch. Its purpose was the protection of Swiss German and its dialectal variety. Over time, it became clear that Swiss German was more viable than expected. The association changed its mission and its name, being known as Verein Schweizerdeutsch from 1990 onwards. In 2018, it was renamed again. Its current name is mundartforum.

external page To the issues 1977–2013

The Bremgarter Neujahrsblätter have been published by the Schodoler-Gesellschaft since 1959. They consist of articles about events and important people in the history and present of Bremgarten. In addition, the Neujahrsblätter contain sections such as the local chronicle and obituaries.

external page To the issues 1959–ff.

Since 1960, the annually published Heimatbuch Meilen offers well-researched, varied insights into the past and present of the municipality of Meilen on Lake Zurich. It covers local politics, education, church matters, culture, traditions, nature, business and associations. Other topics include interesting facts about the four “Wachten”, as the locals call their town’s districts. The Heimatbuch also contains articles about architecturally or historically interesting buildings and stories “from the olden days”.

external page To the issues 1960–ff.

Arbeitskreis Dorfgeschichte, the working group on village history, is a committee of the local council of Frick. It has researched the history of the village and published the series Frick – Gestern und Heute since 1982.

external page To the issues 1985–ff.

The series Beiträge zur Heimatkunde des Sensebezirks was published by the Verein für Heimatkunde between 1927 and 1983. The Sensebezirk is the only fully German-speaking district in the canton of Freiburg. Over the years, the number of articles published varied considerably. Their quality, too, ranges from popular science to serious academia. The publishing association considered these articles themselves to be a “treasure trove of local history” that considerably grew in popularity among the local population over time.

external page To the issues 1927–1983

Since its introduction of a modern constitution in 1831, the Grand Council of the Canton of Bern has published the protocol of its meetings in print. This publication documents the activities of the cantonal legislative. It is an important source of the history of the canton. Protocols dated 2000 and later are freely accessible on the website of the Grand Council.

external page To the issues 1831–1999

The journal Animato was published by the Association of Swiss Music Schools. Between 1977 and 1988, its title was VMS-Bulletin. The purpose of the bulletin was to communicate the association’s goals to the public. It focused on insights and issues in music education and contained information about events and competitions for students of music. In 1998, Animato merged with six other Swiss music journals to form the Schweizer Musikzeitung.

In collaboration with the Swiss National Library NL

external page To the issues 1977–1997

The Berner Kantonalgesangverband has published its periodical BKGV-News since 1982. It aims to support singing in the canton. The periodical informs the members of the choir about the activities of the BKGV and various other choral associations. It contains invitations, reports, meeting protocols and information about events and educational programmes in the broad field of singing.

In collaboration with the Swiss National Library NL

external page To the issues 1982–ff.

Sinfonia, published under the title Das Orchester between 1934 and 1939, was the official organ of the Eidgenössischer Orchesterverband (EOV) until 1997. It served the purpose of a link between the EOV’s governing board and its individual sections. In 1998, Sinfonia merged with six other Swiss music journals to form the Schweizer Musikzeitung.

In collaboration with the Swiss National Library NL

external page To the issues 1934–1997