Die Welt

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"Die Welt" is also the name of a weekly publication founded in 1897 by Theodor Herzl in Vienna as organ of the Zionist movement.
Die Welt
latest logo since 30.11.2015
Die Welt front page.jpg
The April 11, 2011 front page of Die Welt
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Axel Springer SE
Publisher Thomas Schmid
Editor Jan-Eric Peters
Founded April 2, 1946
Political alignment Conservative
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
ISSN 0173-8437
Website www.welt.de
previous logo (2010-29.11.2015)

Die Welt (English: The World) is a German national daily newspaper published by Axel Springer SE.

History

Die Welt was founded in Hamburg in 1946[1] by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times. It originally carried news and British-viewpoint editorial content, but from 1947 it adopted a policy of providing two leading articles on major questions, one British and one German.

The 1993 circulation of the paper was 209,677 copies.[2] At its peak in the occupation period, it had a circulation of around a million.[3]

The modern paper takes a self-described "liberal cosmopolitan" position in editing, but Die Welt is generally considered to be conservative.[4][5]

The average circulation of Die Welt is currently about 209,000 and the paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in Berlin and Hamburg, and in 2002 the paper experimented with a Bavarian edition. A daily regional supplement also appears in Bremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the Berliner Morgenpost.

Die Welt is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. Financially, it has been a lossmaker for many years.

Die Welt was a founder member of the European Dailies Alliance (EDA), and has a longstanding co-operation with comparable daily newspapers from other countries, including the Daily Telegraph (UK), Le Figaro (France) and ABC (Spain).

The newspaper currently publishes a compact edition entitled Welt Kompakt, a 32-page cut-down version of the main broadsheet. Welt Kompakt has a fresher look and is targeted to a younger public. The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publication Welt am Sonntag takes its place.

In November 2010, a redesign for the newspaper was launched, featuring a new logo with a dark blue globe, a reduced number of columns from seven to six, and typography based on the Freight typeface designed by Joshua Darden. Welt Kompakt was also redesigned to use that typeface.[6][7] In 2009, the Sunday edition Welt am Sonntag was recognized as one of the "World’s Best-Designed Newspapers" by the Society for News Design, along with four other newspapers.[8]

On 2 May 2014 Swiss German business magazine BILANZ began to be published as a monthly supplement of Die Welt.[9][10]

Bans

The paper was banned in Egypt in February 2008 due to the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.[11][12]

Welt-Literaturpreis

Since 1999, the Die Welt book supplement Die Literarische Welt ("The Literary World") has presented an annual €10,000 literature prize available to international authors.[13] The award is in honor of Willy Haas who founded Die Literarische Welt in 1925.

Recipients

Editors

A Die Welt balloon over Berlin
  • Rudolf Küstermeier (1946–1953)
  • Bernhard Menne (1950)
  • Paul Bourdin (1950)
  • Hans Scherer, Adalbert Worliczek, Adolf Helbig (1950–1952)
  • Albert Komma (1952–1953)
  • Hans Zehrer (1946 / 1953–1966)
  • Herbert Kremp (1969–1985)
  • Manfred Schell (1985–1992)
  • Peter Gillies (1985–1988)/(1992–1995)
  • Claus Jacobi (1993–1995)
  • Thomas Löffelholz (1995–1998)
  • Mathias Döpfner (1998–2000)
  • Wolfram Weimer (2000–2002)
  • Jan-Eric Peters (2002 – December 31, 2006)
  • Thomas Schmid (January 1, 2007 – 2010)
  • Jan-Eric Peters (since 2010)[29]

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Patricia Meehan, A Strange Enemy People: Germans under the British 1945–50. London: Peter Owen, 2001, pp. 176–9. ISBN 0-7206-1115-6.
  4. ↑ The World From Berlin Der Spiegel 28 December 2009.
  5. ↑ Divided on unification The Economist 4 October 2010.
  6. ↑ http://www.fontblog.de/httpwww-fontshop-deschriftenfontfamilylisting-htmfont-qsearch-keywordfreight
  7. ↑ http://new.myfonts.com/person/Joshua_Darden/
  8. ↑ Five papers named world's best designed SND, 2009.
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  29. ↑ Thomas Schmid wird Herausgeber der WELT-Gruppe/ BERLINER MORGENPOST: Axel Springer SE press release

Further reading

  • Merrill, John C. and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp 353–60

External links

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