For a long time, literary journals played only a minor role in book-centred philologies. Since their mass digitisation in the early 2000s, however, this has changed. Using the example of two German-language journals from the first half of the 20th century, this talk will demonstrate the heuristic potential of computational philology working with literary journals. As field artefacts, not only the content but also the form of the journals will be considered. According to Pierre Bourdieu, the form finally has its own message with which the actors position themselves in the world of literature and fight against each other.