The Seismograph was founded in 2025 as a magazine for contemporary literature (and art) in the Anthropocene.

The journal unites various genres and formats of contemporary short prose and poetry, and also integrates experimental texts and, in its cover design, works of visual art. It follows the idea of understanding artists as seismographs (Fleckner/2012), whose works we perceive as traces.

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Thematically, it focuses particularly on ecopoetic texts that illuminate the relationship between humans and the environment in the Anthropocene, as well as explorations of feelings of alienation, encounter, community, and resonance in the digital age. How do people connect with nature, themselves, and others in modernity? The context of resonance also includes texts of intercultural and transculturality, as well as outstanding translations.

Under the motto σεισμος seismós 'shaking' + γράφω grapho 'writing' , the seismograph unites individual and collective sensations of the present, recording earthquakes.

Implemented as a three-part concept, this website includes not only the magazine but also an online art gallery with works by the collective, as well as a cultural journalism blog that also contains texts from the community and incorporates an analytical-journalistic component.

The Seismograph was founded by Joalia Nemifeh Ellwanger, whose main areas of work and cultural networks are located particularly in North Rhine-Westphalia.