Perlentaucher

Perlentaucher

Company type	corporation
Industry	media
Founded	March 2000[1]
Headquarters	Berlin , Germany
Key people	Niclas Seeliger (CEO) Anja Seeliger Thierry Chervel
Number of employees	25
Website	www.perlentaucher.de

Perlentaucher is a German online magazine. It was founded and is published by Anja Seeliger and Thierry Chervel and has been available since March 15, 2000.^[1]

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.^[2]

In 2003, Perlentaucher was awarded the prestigious Grimme Award for online journalism, the jury calling it a "one-of-a-kind 'journal of journals'".^[3]

Another online magazine run by Perlentaucher Medien was the English-language signandsight.com.^[4][5] Signandsight was first published in 2005, bringing a news digest of articles on European cultural topics. It was discontinued in March 2012 due to the presently unfavourable "economic climate".^[6]

The Perlentaucher magazine also cooperates with the website Salon run by the Slovak organisation Project Forum.

Footnotes

1. (in German) perlentaucher.de: about (masthead page)
2. (in German) http://www.perlentaucher.de/artikel/2216.html Archived 2006-02-18 at the Wayback Machine , 2005
3. (in German) grimme-online-award.de: Preisträger des »Grimme Online Award Medienjournalismus« Archived 2007-10-08 at the Wayback Machine.
4. Signandsight – Four Words are Better than Two, 2005
5. Signandsight – Let´s Talk European, 2005
6. Anja Seeliger, Thierry Chervel: Signandsight.com sagt Goodbye. From: perlentaucher.de. 28 March 2012. Accessed on 29 March 2012.

External links

• www.perlentaucher.de published in German
• www.signandsight.com published in English (Archive 2005–2012)