The publisher's brochure for Klaus Mann's monthly magazine, Die Sammlung, from March 1934, demonstrates the unique scope of this literary, cultural and political publication. At this point the magazine could look back on a very busy and stressful six months since the publication of the first issue in September 1933 which had drawn attacks from the Nazi press as well as fuelling a major public debate over how exiles should position themselves in relation to the Nazi regime.

As the editor of the magazine, Klaus Mann remained loyal to the project of collecting diverse political perspectives as an intellectual counterpoint to Nazism. The brochure announces contributions from communist authors such as Johannes R. Becher and Bertolt Brecht as well as bourgeois conservative and liberal writers such as Bruno Frank, Joseph Roth and Hermann Kesten. At the same time the magazine's international approach is attested to with names such as Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway and André Gide.

The journal attempted to increase its appeal at the beginning of the second half of the year by staging a competition. The fact that two well-established authors, Alexander Moritz Frey and Gustav Regler, were chosen as winners of the anonymous submission in July 1934 shows from today's perspective how unfortunately narrow the range and influence of this magazine actually was.