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{{short description |Magazine in Esperanto}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = 
| image_file = Revuo Kontakto kovrilpaĝo 2015.1.jpg
| image_size = 
| image_caption = Cover of the January 2015 issue
| editor = Karina Oliveira
| editor_title = Redactor
| frequency = bimestrial
| circulation = 
| founder = [[Humphrey Tonkin]]
| category = [[Magazine]]
| publisher = [[World Esperanto Association]]
| founded = 1963
| lastdate = 
| country = The [[Netherlands]]
| based = Rotterdam
| language = Esperanto
| website = [https://www.tejo.org/agadoj/revuo-kontakto/ https://www.tejo.org/agadoj/revuo-kontakto/]
| issn = 0023-3692
}}
'''''Kontakto''''' is an [[Esperanto]] [[magazine]] published by [[TEJO]] and supported by the [[Universal Esperanto Association]] (UEA). Its 6 annual issues<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tejo.org/en/agadoj/revuo-kontakto/ |title=Revuo Kontakto}}</ref> have readers in about 100 countries of the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tejo.org/en/agadoj/revuo-kontakto/ |title=Revuo Kontakto}}</ref> It started in 1963<ref name=neutral>{{cite journal |url=https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jola.12427 |title=Neutralizing the political: Language ideology as censorship in Esperanto youth media during the Cold War |journal=Journal of Linguistic Anthropology |first=Guilherme |last=Fians |date=29 April 2024 |doi=10.1111/jola.12427|doi-access=free |hdl=10023/29791 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> through a proposal of the UEA committee by [[Humphrey Tonkin]], who became its first editor in chief and who provided a magazine that touched on topics of interest to Esperanto youth.<ref name=neutral/> The magazine often used the slogan "In Esperanto, but not about Esperanto."

In the early 1980s, [[Anna Lowenstein]] became the editor.{{citation needed |date=June 2024}} Her contributions to the magazine included easy-to-read articles, which concerned serious topics, but were written in simple language suitable for beginning Esperanto learners. This continues to be a primary focus for the magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esperanto.org/internacia/TEJO/publikajhoj/kontakto/e-kontakto.html |title=Kontakto?!? |language=Esperanto |access-date=2024-09-17 |archive-date=2006-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060808173106/http://www.esperanto.org/internacia/TEJO/publikajhoj/kontakto/e-kontakto.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

== List of editors ==
*[[Humphrey Tonkin]]
*[[Stefan Maul]]
*[[Simo Milojevic]]
*[[Giorgio Silfer]] (1975–1977)
*[[Jouko Lindstedt]] (1978)
*[[Giulio Cappa]] (1978–1979)
*[[Dario Besseghini]] 
*[[Anna Lowenstein]]
*[[Leif Nordenstorm]]
*[[Francisco Javier Moleón]] (1990)
*[[István Ertl]] (1990–1991)
*[[Francisco Veuthey]] (1992–1998)
*[[Sabira Stahlberg]] (1998–2001)
*[[Yevgenia Amis (Ĵenja Zvereva Amis)]] (2002–2007)
*[[Pavel Mozhayev]] (2007–2010)
*[[Rogener Pavinski]] (2010-2023)
*Karina Oliveira (2023-)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.tejo.org/agadoj/revuo-kontakto/ Official website of Kontakto (in Esperanto)]
*[http://www.gazetejo.org/kontakto The "Kontakto" page at the site "Gazetejo.org" (in Esperanto)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060808173106/http://www.esperanto.org/internacia/TEJO/publikajhoj/kontakto/e-kontakto.html Information about Kontakto from esperanto.org (in Esperanto)]

[[Category:1963 establishments in the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Esperanto magazines]]
[[Category:Magazines established in 1963]]
[[Category:Mass media in Rotterdam]]
[[Category:Monthly magazines published in the Netherlands]]