Perlentaucher
Encyclopedia
Perlentaucher is a German online magazine
. 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 and feuilleton
and a daily overview of book reviews 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 is the English language signandsight.com. Signandsight publishes news digest of articles on European cultural topics.
The Perlentaucher magazine also cooperates with the website Salon run by the Slovak organisation Project Forum
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Online magazine
An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control...
. 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 and feuilleton
Feuilleton
Feuilleton was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles...
and a daily overview of book reviews 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 is the English language signandsight.com. Signandsight publishes news digest of articles on European cultural topics.
The Perlentaucher magazine also cooperates with the website Salon run by the Slovak organisation Project Forum
Project Forum
Project Forum is a non-profit organisation established in 2006 in Bratislava, Slovakia. The organisation’s main mission is to support education, promote culture and create space for debate and polemical exchange in Europe....
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External links
- www.perlentaucher.de published in German
- www.signandsight.com published in English