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Schweizer Spiegel, a monthly literary magazine, was founded in Zurich in 1925 by Adolf Guggenbühl and his brother-in-law Fortunat Huber. By emphasising Switzerland's cultural and political distinctiveness, as well as a patriotism strongly marked by Christian values, the magazine moved closer to the conservative ideals of the Spiritual Defence movement during the Second World War. The magazine regularly invited readers to express their views on social issues by means of questionnaires. Willi Schohaus, Peter Meyer, authors, and René Gilsi, cartoonist, were among the regular contributors. After the departure of its founders in the mid-1960s, the newspaper lost its distinctive line and was taken over in 1972 by the "Weltwoche".

The Schweizer Spiegel press also published a wide range of historical and cultural works, some of which had considerable impact, such as Wolfgang Langhoff's "Die Moorsoldaten" in 1935 and Selina Chönz and Alois Carigiet's "Schellen-Ursli" in 1945.

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Source:

Adrian Scherrer: Schweizer Spiegel, in: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Version vom 28.10.2011. https://hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/024836/2011-10-28/, konsultiert am 10.04.2025.

Contact:

'Schweizer Spiegel'-Verlag mit Rodana Verlag AG

Title history:

Title:	Schweizer Spiegel
Period:	1925-1972