One of Prague’s German cultural magazines of the 1840s, published by the representative of Haskala, publisher and poet Moses Israel Landau and his colleague Josef Freund, was mostly dismissed by literary historiography as a harmless periodical with at most mediocre content without time critical and aesthetic potential. This article describes the magazine and its development in a more differentiated manner and explores the question of the relationship between the entertaining („Unterhaltung“) and pronounced critical aspects of the magazine.