Arbeiter Zeitung was started on 12 July 1889 by the Socialist Party The paper reduced its circulation by one quarter from 1960 to 1990. Among its noted contributors and editors in the pre-war period was its cultural editor
David Josef Bach.
Ernst Fischer served as the editor of the paper.
Ilse Barea-Kulcsar's
serialised novel
Telefónica, an account of four days during the Spanish Civil War, was published in the paper in 1949. ==See also==