Text + kritik

text+kritik is a literary journal in which the most important German-language writers have their works analysed and presented by fellow writers, as well as persons in the field of literary scholarship and literary criticism.

It was founded in 1963 by Heinz Ludwig Arnold who edited it from then until his death in 2011. At the time of the first edition, which appeared in 1963 and was dedicated to Günter Grass, the editorial team comprised Lothar Baier, Gerd Hemmerich, Jochen Meyer, Wolf Wondratschek and Heinz Ludwig Arnold himself.

Each edition is focused on a different theme, which usually means it deals with one specific German-language writer. Featured writers have been as varied as Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Arno Schmidt, Paul Celan, Daniel Kehlmann, Herta Müller, Yoko Tawada, Hubert Fichte, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Felicitas Hoppe and Rainald Goetz.

In 2013 text+kritik celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a special volume on the "Future of Literature". The journal is published four times per year in Munich by edition text + kritik. Co-editors are Hugo Dittberner, Norbert Hummelt, Hermann Korte, Steffen Martus, Axel Ruckaberle, Michael Scheffel, Claudia Stockinger and Michael Töteberg.