Akzente is a German literary magazine that was founded in 1953 by Walter Höllerer and Hans Bender.
Important writers whose texts were published in the 1950s and 1960s included Thomas Mann, Elias Canetti, Erich Fried, Peter Weiss, Hilde Domin, Ernst Meister, Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs.
Including texts from Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Walser, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Uwe Johnson, Ilse Aichinger and Günter Grass.
In 1974, the first 20 years of the newspaper was reissued by publisher Zweitausendeins in a seven-volume paperback issue (with the complete contents of Karl Rudolf Pigge).
Each issue is dedicated to a special theme, to which editor Jo Lendle invites a co-editor.