200 covers, 2800 topics, 4500 texts
The first issue of Fritz+Fränzi: «Children at risk of poverty» was published in September 2001. «Fritz and Fränzi are school-age children. Homework, learning difficulties, pocket money, violence, drug use, leisure activities, nutrition. This new magazine covers everything from the first day of school to year 9,» wrote Ellen Ringier, President of the Elternsein Foundation, which publishes Fritz+Fränzi, in the foreword. Prominent interviewees in the first issue: paediatrician Remo Largo and psychologist Allan Guggenbühl.
Cover pictures
Simple, minimalist, visually powerful: a good cover emotionalises, attracts attention and inspires confidence. Fritz+Fränzi has been working with the renowned photo agency 13 Photo in Zurich for over ten years. Some of the best photographers in Switzerland regularly work for Fritz+Fränzi. Their pictures and especially their covers - for example on the topics of autism, puberty and school anxiety - make our magazine unique and unmistakable.
Dossiers and topics
Informative, constructive: Our dossiers are up to 30 pages long, form the centrepiece of every issue and come from the heart of everyday family and parenting life: smoking weed (2016), psychological violence (2022), gaming (2024), to name just three.
Fritz+Fränzi also regularly tackles controversial topics: The lie of maternal happiness, Sex with other partners saved our marriage or Lukas is now Lea, the story of one of around 8000 trans children in Switzerland.
Experts
High-profile, renowned: For ten years, we have published an interview with a well-known personality in every issue. The list reads like a who's who of the most experienced and popular experts in the fields of family, parenting, education and health: educationalist Margrit Stamm, philosopher Barbara Bleisch, paediatrician Oskar Jenni, teaching and learning researcher Elsbeth Stern, paediatrician Herbert Renz-Polster. Particularly memorable are discussions with international luminaries such as the Israeli psychologist and author Haim Omer, the Finnish psychiatrist Ben Furman and Peter Gray, a US developmental psychologist.
Columnists and columnists
Opinionated and personal: columnists have been part of Fritz+Fränzi's DNA for many years. The more than 150 texts by the great Danish family therapist Jesper Juul are among the most widely read in our magazine. Michèle Binswanger and Mikael Krogerus ' intelligent, often comforting reads are unforgettable. Psychologist Fabian Grolimund has been writing for us for over ten years, alternating with his colleague Stefanie Rietzler since 2019. Berlin-based Thomas Feibel has been covering media topics since 2018, while Mirjam Oertli and Lukas Linder have been sharing the small and big joys and sorrows of everyday family life with Fritz+Fränzi readers since the beginning of 2024.
Series
One topic, many aspects: In addition to dossiers and monthly interviews, series have been an integral part of Fritz+Fränzi for many years. In 2015, we published the eleven-part series Psychological disorders, followed by the eleven-part series Living with ADHD in 2016. Two years later, Was Kinder krank macht explored the question of how parents can positively influence their child's well-being. Wie Familie gelingt (2019) examined the special roles, norms and requirements in the family system in ten episodes. This was followed a year later by the multi-part series Sibling Myths and Child and Therapy. In the four-part series Parent-Child Relationships (2022), we showed what characterises the different gender constellations. How family life works when the parents are no longer a couple was the topic of the series Separating Parents (2023).
