Tages-Anzeiger

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Tages-Anzeiger, also abbreviated Tagi or TA, is a Swiss national daily newspaper based in Zürich. Among newspapers in Switzerland, it has one of the largest circulations, reaching around 230,000 readers. The Tages-Anzeiger was first published in 1893. Although politically and economically independent, the TA's political stance is generally characterized as being left of the middle. On Saturdays the newspaper includes the supplement Das Magazin. The newspaper is owned by Tamedia and Peter Hartmeier is the chief editor.

[edit] Das Magazin

Das Magazin - in English, "the magazine" - is a supplement to the Saturday edition of the Tages-Anzeiger. Added in 1970, it mainly features comments and reports on politics and culture. In 2005 Das Magazin was added to two other newspapers, the Basler Zeitung and the Berner Zeitung, reaching around 730,000 readers each weekend (approximately ten percent of the Swiss population).

In its early years, Das Magazin featured articles by writers such as Niklaus Meienberg, Peter Bichsel and Laure Wyss, and, as a bastion of journalistic enlightenment in the 1970s, it heavily defined cultural and political discourse in Switzerland.

Das Magazin was patterned after the New York Times Magazine and employs a style and language all its own. The magazine's main competitor is the Weltwoche.

In 2005/2006 "das Magazin" published the "Schweizer Bibliothek"--a compilation of twenty Books, written by twenty of the 20th century's most important Swiss writers (e.g. Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Glauser, Max Frisch, Adolf Muschg, Fleur Jaeggy).