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 which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.

National

Daily national subscription papers

No. Newspaper Abbrv. Circulation(Jan 2018) Days ofpublication Political alignment Publisher/Parent Company
1 BildBild 1,150,181 Mon–Sat Centre-right

Populist[2]

Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer))
2 Süddeutsche ZeitungSZ 361,507[3]Mon–Sat Centre-left[4]/ left-liberal[5] or "critical-liberal"[6]Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding (Gruppe Württembergischer Verleger (Neue Pressegesellschaft mbh & Co. KG (Eberhard Ebner))), Medien Union (Dieter Schaub)
3 Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungFAZ 254,263[7]Mon–Fri Centre-right[8]/ moderately conservative[9] to liberal[10]Fazit-Stiftung
4 Die Welt165,686[11]Mon–Fri Centre-right[12]/ conservative[4] to liberal[13]Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer))
5 Handelsblatt130,864[14]Mon–Fri Economically liberal[15][16]Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
6 Der Tagesspiegel113,716[17]Mon–Sun Liberal,[18][19]centrist[20]Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
7 Die Tageszeitungtaz 51,873[21]Mon–Sat Left-wing,[22]green[18]taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG
8 Neues DeutschlandND 25,158[23]Mon–Sat Left-wing, socialistNeues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlags GmbH and The Left Party
9 Junge WeltjW c. 19,000 Mon–Sat Far-left, Marxist[24][25]Verlag 8. Mai

Weekly national subscription papers

No. Newspaper Abbrv. Circulation Political alignment Publisher/Parent Company
4/2015 Change
1 Die Zeit511,806[26]Increase0.2%[26][27]/ [8]center-left[9][28]Social democracySPD endorsement Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
2 Junge FreiheitJF 25,868[29]Increase16.5%[23]Right-wing,[19][30] conservative[19]Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH & Co (Dieter Stein)
3 Der Freitag19,708 Left-wing,[31]left-liberal[32]Jakob Augstein
4 Preußische Allgemeine ZeitungPAZ 18,000 Right-wing, "Prussian conservative" Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen
5 Jungle WorldJW c. 11,585 Far-left, undogmatic Jungle World Verlags GmbH

News magazines

  • Der Spiegel (weekly (Saturday) left-liberal[9] — 830,349 copies)
  • Stern (weekly (Thursday) left-liberal — 734,859 copies)
  • Focus (weekly (Saturday) liberal-conservative[9] — 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

Here are 20 large newspapers in the regions of Germany.

Boulevard papers ("tabloid" style)

A Bild kiosk

Boulevardzeitungen (sometimes translated as "popular papers"[8]) 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

Non-German-language

TitleLanguageCity of publication
Flensborg AvisDanishFlensburg
Handelsblatt Global EditionEnglishDüsseldorf
HürriyetTurkishMörfelden-Walldorf
The Munich EyeEnglishMunich
Serbske NowinySorbianBautzen, Saxony
Stars and StripesEnglishGriesheim
VestiSerbianFrankfurt am Main
Yeni Özgür PolitikaKurdishNeu-Isenburg
BerlinObserverEnglish
PPC LandEnglishFrankfurt am Main

See also

References

  1. ^Pippa Norris (Fall 2000). "Chapter 4 The Decline of Newspapers?". A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Post-Industrial Societies(PDF). New York: Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 6 October 2013.
  2. ^"Wie gefährlich ist Bild?". journalist.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-05-06.
  3. ^"Süddeutsche Zeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  4. ^ abHans J. Kleinsteuber; Barbara Thomass (2007). The German Media Landscape. Intellect Books. p. 112.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  5. ^Lutz Hachmeister. "Süddeutsche Zeitung". Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik.
  6. ^Irene Preisinger (2002). Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland. Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 122–123.
  7. ^"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  8. ^ abcDavide Brocchi (6 December 2008). "Die Presse in Deutschland". Cultura21.
  9. ^ abcdMarcus Maurer; Carsten Reinemann (2007). Medieninhalte: Eine Einführung. Springer-Verlag. p. 130.
  10. ^Irene Preisinger (2002). Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland. Westdeutscher Verlag. pp. 123–124.
  11. ^"Die Welt (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  12. ^"The press in Germany", by BBC News 31 October 2006; Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  13. ^Irene Preisinger (2002). Information zwischen Interpretation und Kritik: Das Berufsverständnis politischer Journalisten in Frankreich und Deutschland. Westdeutscher Verlag. p. 124.
  14. ^"Handelsblatt (Mon–Fri)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  15. ^Danyal Bayaz (2014). 'Heuschrecken' zwischen Rendite, Reportage und Regulierung: Die Bedeutung von Private Equity in Ökonomie und Öffentlichkeit. Springer VS. p. 366.
  16. ^"euro|topics". www.eurotopics.net. Archived from the original on 2015-06-12.
  17. ^"Der Tagesspiegel (Mon–Sun)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  18. ^ abAnnikki Koskensalo; John Smeds; Angel Huguet; Rudolf De Cillia (2012). Language: Competence-Change-Contact. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 90.
  19. ^ abcUniversity of Warwick - Warwick German Studies Web, Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  20. ^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.
  21. ^"die tageszeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  22. ^Steffi Boothroyd (1998). The Media Landscape. Routledge. p. 138.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  23. ^ ab"Neues Deutschland (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
  24. ^van Hüllen, Rudolf (22 December 2014). "Linksextreme Medien" (in German). Federal Agency for Civic Education. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  25. ^"Über diese Zeitung". junge Welt (in German). Berlin. section Was ist die junge Welt?. ISSN 0941-9373. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  26. ^ ab"Süddeutsche Zeitung (Mon–Sat)" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  27. ^Eckhard Bernstein (2004). Culture and Customs of Germany. Greenwood Press. p. 120.
  28. ^Hans-Ulrich Wehler (2008). Deutsche Gesellschaftsgeschichte Bd. 5: Bundesrepublik und DDR 1949-1990. C.H.Beck. p. 401.
  29. ^"Junge Freiheit" (in German). IVW. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  30. ^The Economist- "German conservatives", Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  31. ^"Zum Kauf des "Freitag" durch Jakob Augstein", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  32. ^"Verleger und Geschäftsführer des Freitag", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017.

Further reading

  • British Museum (1885), "Berlin", Periodical Publications, Catalogue of Printed Books, London{{citation}}: 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)
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