Das Magazin - in English, "the magazine" - is the Saturday supplement of the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger. It exists since 1970, and it mainly features comments and reports on politics and culture. Since 2005 it is also a supplement of two other newspapers, the Basler Zeitung and the Berner Zeitung, reaching about 730'000 readers each weekend, which is equal to ten percent of the Swiss population. Basler Zeitung (BaZ) is a regional newspaper, published in Basel, Switzerland. ...
In its early years, Das Magazin was coined by writers such as Niklaus Meienberg, Peter Bichsel and Laure Wyss, and as a bastion of journalistic enlightenment it heavily defined cultural and political discourse in Switzerland. Peter Bichsel (born March 24, 1935) is a popular Swiss-German writer and journalist representing modern German literature. ...
Das Magazin was designed after its example, the New York Times Magazine, and it boasts a vanguard language of its own. The magazine's main competitor is the Weltwoche. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Die Weltwoche (The World Week) is a Swiss weekly magazine based in Zürich. ...