List of newspapers in Germany
The number of national daily newspapers in Germany was 598 in 1950, whereas it was 375 in 1965.[1] Below is a list of newspapers in Germany, sorted according to printed run as of 2015, as listed at ivw.de which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.
National subscription papers
Daily national subscription papers
No. | Newspaper | Abbrv. | Circulation (January, 2018) | Frequency | Political alignment | Publisher/Parent Company |
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1 | Bild | Bild | 1,150,181 | Monday - Saturday | centre-right | Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer)) |
2 | Süddeutsche Zeitung | SZ | 361,507[2] | Monday - Saturday | centre-left[3]/ left-liberal[4] or "critical-liberal"[5] | Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding (Gruppe Württembergischer Verleger (Neue Pressegesellschaft mbh & Co. KG (Eberhard Ebner))), Medien Union (Dieter Schaub) |
3 | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | FAZ | 254,263[6] | Monday - Friday | centre-right[7]/ moderately conservative[8] to liberal[9] | Fazit-Stiftung |
4 | Die Welt | 165,686[10] | Monday - Friday | centre-right[11]/ conservative[3] to liberal[12] | Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer)) | |
5 | Handelsblatt | 130,864[13] | Monday - Friday | economically liberal[14][15] | Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) | |
6 | Der Tagesspiegel | 113,716[16] | Monday - Sunday | liberal,[17][18] centrist[19] | Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) | |
7 | Die Tageszeitung | taz | 51,873[20] | Monday - Saturday | left-wing,[21] green[17] | taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG |
8 | Neues Deutschland | ND | 25,158[22] | Monday - Saturday | left-wing, socialist | Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlags GmbH and The Left Party |
9 | Junge Welt | jW | c. 19,000 | Monday - Saturday | far-left, Marxist | Verlag 8. Mai |
Weekly national subscription papers
No. | Newspaper | Abbrv. | Circulation | Frequency | Political alignment | Publisher/Parent Company | |
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4/2015 | Change | ||||||
1 | Die Zeit | 511,806[23] | ![]() |
weekly | centrist[24]/ liberal[7] or left-liberal[8][25] | Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) | |
2 | Junge Freiheit | JF | 25,868[26] | ![]() |
weekly | right-wing,[18][27] conservative[18] | Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH & Co (Dieter Stein) |
3 | Der Freitag | 19,708 | weekly | left-wing,[28] left-liberal[29] | Jakob Augstein | ||
4 | Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung | PAZ | 18,000 | weekly | right-wing, "Prussian conservative" | Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen | |
5 | Jungle World | JW | c. 11,585 | weekly | far-left, undogmatic | Jungle World Verlags GmbH |
National news magazines
- Der Spiegel (weekly (Saturday) left-liberal[8] — 830,349 copies)
- Stern (weekly (Thursday) left-liberal — 734,859 copies)
- Focus (weekly (Saturday) liberal-conservative[8] — 500,480 copies)
- Wirtschaftswoche (weekly (Friday) economically-liberal — 131,229 copies)
- Cicero (monthly liberal-conservative — 83,718 copies)
- konkret (monthly far-left — 42,398 copies)
Regional or local subscription papers in Germany (not exhaustive)
- Aachener Zeitung (110,017 copies including Aachener Nachrichten) — http://www.az-web.de
- Augsburger Allgemeine (215,460 copies)
- Badische Neueste Nachrichten (Karlsruhe) (121,765 copies) — http://www.bnn.de/
- Badische Zeitung (Freiburg) (137,111 copies)
- Berliner Morgenpost (127,469 copies)
- Berliner Zeitung (107,610 copies)
- Braunschweiger Zeitung (112,859 copies)
- Freie Presse (Chemnitz) (241,560)
- Frankfurter Rundschau/FNP (Frankfurt) (59,371)
- General-Anzeiger (Bonn) (58,000 copies)
- Hamburger Abendblatt (192,800 copies)
- Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (476,059 copies including Neue Presse and various local editions)
- Hessische/Niedersächsische Allgemeine (Kassel) (176,185 copies)
- Hochheimer Zeitung — http://www.hochheimer-zeitung.de/index.htm
- Kieler Nachrichten
- Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (273,382)
- Lausitzer Rundschau (87,374 copies)
- Leipziger Volkszeitung (184,337 copies)
- Lübecker Nachrichten (96,957 copies)
- Main-Post (Würzburg) (117,671 copies) — http://www.main-post.de/
- Märkische Allgemeine (Potsdam) (115,144 copies)
- Mittelbayerische Zeitung (Regensburg) (109,753 copies)
- Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Halle) (181,154 copies)
- Münchner Merkur (185,931 copies)
- Nacht-Express (East Berlin)
- Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (158,283 copies)
- Neue Ruhr Zeitung (Essen) (121,125 copies) — https://www.derwesten.de/nrz/
- Neue Westfälische (Bielefeld) (220,208 copies) — http://www.nw.de/
- Nordkurier (75,676 copies)
- Nordwest-Zeitung (116,391 copies) — http://www.nwzonline.de/
- Nürnberger Nachrichten (253,802 copies including Nürnberger Zeitung)
- Oberhessische Presse (24,977 copies)
- Ostsee-Zeitung (Rostock) (143,596 copies)
- Passauer Neue Presse (156,244 copies)
- Pforzheimer Zeitung (34,951 copies)
- Rheinische Post (Düsseldorf) (302,822 copies)
- Die Rheinpfalz (Ludwigshafen) (228,943 copies)
- Rhein-Zeitung (Koblenz) (183,655 copies) — http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/
- Ruhr Nachrichten (Dortmund) (109,149 copies)
- Saarbrücker Zeitung (136,999 copies)
- Sächsische Zeitung (Dresden) (227,940 copies)
- Schwäbische Zeitung (Ravensburg) (166,305 copies)
- Schwarzwälder Bote (Oberndorf am Neckar) (114,661 copies) — http://www.schwarzwaelder-bote.de/
- Schweriner Volkszeitung (Schwerin) (80,659 copies)
- Stuttgarter Zeitung (175,172 copies including Stuttgarter Nachrichten)
- Südkurier (Konstanz) (123,335 copies)
- Südwest-Presse (Ulm) (275,834 copies)
- Thüringer Allgemeine (Erfurt) (165,591 copies)
- Volksstimme (Magdeburg) (173,524 copies)
- Weser-Kurier (Bremen) (148,855 copies including Bremer Nachrichten and Verdener Nachrichten) – http://www.weser-kurier.de/
- Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Essen) (397,145 copies)
- Westdeutsche Zeitung (Düsseldorf) (79,116 copies)
- Westfalen-Blatt (Bielefeld) (114,794 copies) — http://www.westfalen-blatt.de/
- Westfalenpost (Hagen) (115,239 copies) — https://www.derwesten.de/wp/
- Westfälische Nachrichten (Münster) (114,079 copies including Münstersche Zeitung) — http://www.westfaelische-nachrichten.de/
- Westfälischer Anzeiger (Hamm) (127.798) — http://www.wa.de/
- Westfälische Rundschau (Dortmund) (115,000) — http://www.wr.de/
Boulevard papers ("tabloid" style)
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Boulevardzeitungen (sometimes translated as "popular papers"[7]) is a style of newspapers, characterised by big, colourful headlines, pictures and sensationalist stories, comparable to the English term "red top" or "tabloid", but independent from the paper format (the most widespread boulevard paper actually has a Broadsheet format). Also called Kaufzeitungen or Straßenverkaufszeitungen ("street sale papers"), as they can only be bought day by day at kiosks or from street vendors and are not usually delivered to subscribers (Munich's Abendzeitung being a notable exception).
National boulevard papers
- Bild (2,086,125 copies)
- also called "Bildzeitung"; with several regional editions like Bild Hamburg or Bild Köln. The Bild can be compared to tabloids, but the page size is bigger (broadsheet).
- Bild has a Sunday sister newspaper (which is a tabloid both in terms of style and paper format), Bild am Sonntag (1,118,497 copies), edited by a separate desk.
Regional or local boulevard papers
- Express in Cologne and the Rhineland (132,836 copies)
- tz (Munich) (120,533)
- B.Z. (Berlin) (116,848 copies)
- Berliner Kurier (96,352 copies)
- Hamburger Morgenpost (83,096 copies)
- Abendzeitung (51,310 copies, unlike other Boulevard papers, about half of the copies are delivered to subscribers)
Non-German-language newspapers
- Flensborg Avis — in Danish, published in Flensburg
- Handelsblatt Global Edition — in English, published in Berlin
- Hürriyet — in Turkish, published in Mörfelden-Walldorf
- Karadeniz — in Turkish
- The Munich Eye — in English, published in Munich
- Serbske Nowiny — in Sorbian (in Bautzen, Sachsen)
- Stars and Stripes — in English, published in Griesheim
- Vesti — in Serbian, published in or near Frankfurt am Main
- Yeni Özgür Politika— in Turkish, published in Neu-Isenburg
- BerlinObserver— in English, published in or near Germany
See also
References
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- "Süddeutsche Zeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Hans J. Kleinsteuber; Barbara Thomass (2007). The German Media Landscape. p. 112.
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- Irene Preisinger (2002). Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland. Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 122–123.
- "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Davide Brocchi (6 December 2008). "Die Presse in Deutschland". Cultura21.
- Marcus Maurer; Carsten Reinemann (2007). Medieninhalte: Eine Einführung. Springer-Verlag. p. 130.
- Irene Preisinger (2002). Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland. Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 123–124.
- "Die Welt (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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- "Handelsblatt (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Danyal Bayaz (2014). 'Heuschrecken' zwischen Rendite, Reportage und Regulierung: Die Bedeutung von Private Equity in Ökonomie und Öffentlichkeit. Springer VS. p. 366.
- "euro|topics". www.eurotopics.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-12.
- "Der Tagesspiegel (Mon–Sun)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Annikki Koskensalo; John Smeds; Angel Huguet; Rudolf De Cillia (2012). Language: Competence-Change-Contact. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 90.
- University of Warwick - Warwick German Studies Web, Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- W. Pojmann, ed. (2004). Migration and Activism in Europe since 1945. Springer. p. 2008.
This qualitative analysis was complemented by a quantitative media analysis of coverage of the two case studies in two major Berlin dailies; the leftist Berliner Zeitung and the more centrist Tagesspiegel.
- "die tageszeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- Steffi Boothroyd (1998). The Media Landscape. p. 138.
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ignored (help) - "Neues Deutschland (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- "Süddeutsche Zeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- Eckhard Bernstein (2004). Culture and Customs of Germany. Greenwood Press. p. 120.
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler (2008). Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte Bd. 5: Bundesrepublik und DDR 1949-1990. C.H.Beck. p. 401.
- "Junge Freiheit" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- The Economist- "German conservatives", Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- "Zum Kauf des "Freitag" durch Jakob Augstein", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017.
- "Verleger und Geschäftsführer des Freitag", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017.
Further reading
- British Museum (1885), "Berlin", Periodical Publications, Catalogue of Printed Books, London
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Olson, Kenneth E. The History Makers: The Press of Europe from hits Beginnings through 1965 (1967) pp 99-134
- Collins, Ross F., and E. M. Palmegiano, eds. The Rise of Western Journalism 1815-1914: Essays on the Press in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain and the United States (2007)
- Ross, Corey. Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich (Oxford University press 2010) 448pp
- Esser, Frank, and Michael Brüggemann. "The strategic crisis of German newspapers." in David AL Levy and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, eds. Changing Business of Journalism and its Implication for Democracy (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, 2010) pp: 39-54.
- Thode, Ernest, ed. Historic German Newspapers Online (2014)