1 Introduction
1.1 Course of the presentation
1.2 State of research and sources

2 The path of Swiss literature into the sixties
2.1 The intellectual national defense
2.2 Anti-modern tendencies in Swiss German studies
2.3 The literary field of the years 1933-1945
2.4 The end of the war in 1945 and literary life thereafter
2.4.1 The journal "Hortulus"
2.5 Frisch, Dürrenmatt and Gomringer - demands for a new art

3 The literary sixties
3.1 A broad publishing landscape
3.2 Important authors and debuts
3.3 Formal innovations and thematic expansions
3.4 The dispute over literary modernism
3.5 Difficulties of literary criticism
3.6 Aesthetic developments and their models
3.7 Crisis in the Swiss Writers' Association

4 The Walter publishing house - history and intellectual orientation
4.1 Data of the publishing house history
4.2 The founder Otto Walter
4.3 The publications of Walter-Verlag
4.4 Otto F. Walter's literary program and his own literary beginnings

5 Of edges and centers - a preliminary summary

6 The "Walter Prints"
6.1 Timing and editorship
6.2 Selection of texts and economic considerations
6.3 The layout of the volumes
6.4 Sales and reception of the "Walter Prints"
6.5 Continuation with the "Luchterhand Prints"

7 Individual "Walter Prints" in view
7.1 Collection of new books (Walter-Druck 0)
7.2 Peter Bichsel: Actually Mrs. Blum would like to get to know the milkman (Walter print 2)
7.3 Francis Ponge: The literary practice (Walter print 4)
7.4 Gerda Zeltner-Neukomm: The arbitrary language (Walter print 8)
7.5 Ernst Jandl: Laut und Luise (Walter print 12)

8 The "Walter Prints" and Swiss literature of the sixties

9 Conclusion.