[3] It covers articles on poetry and philosophy, anthropology and theology and the relations between art and science.

[6] Sinn und Form is published by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin on a bimonthly basis.

[7][8] The editors-in-chief of the magazine include the following:[9] Notable contributors of Sinn und Form are Miguel Ángel Asturias, Imre Kertész, Halldór Laxness, Czeslaw Milosz, Pablo Neruda, Romain Rolland, Jürgen Habermas, Nelly Sachs, Heiner Müller, Ernst Jünger, Hilde Domin, Volker Braun, Peter Härtling, Durs Grünbein, and Jürgen Becker.

[11] Robert Havemann, chemist and later dissident, published articles in the magazine criticizing modern socialism and revisionist works of the Western authors.

[12] The founding editor-in-chief Peter Huchel was forced by the East German authorities to resign from the post.