Die Zeit
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 The October 7, 2006 front page of Die Zeit |
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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Zeit-Verlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG |
| Editor | Giovanni di Lorenzo |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Political alignment | centrist/liberaloriginal research? |
| Headquarters | Speersort 1, 20095 Hamburg |
| Official website | www.zeit.de |
Die Zeit (German pronunciation: [diː ˈtsaɪt], literally "The Time" or "Times") is a German national weekly newspaper regarded for its journalistic quality.12 With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper. The publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media.
The paper is considered to be highbrow.3 Its political direction is centrist and liberal, but has oscillated a number of times between slightly left-leaning and slightly right-leaning. Die Zeit often publishes dossiers, essays, third-party articles and excerpts of lectures of different authors emphasising their points of view on a single aspect or topic in one or in consecutive issues. It is known for its very large physical paper format (Nordisch) and its long and detailed articles.
The first edition was printed on February 21, 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of Die Zeit from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann.
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The fact that the newspaper bears the coat of arms of Bremen in its title stems from an accident of history: when the paper was founded in the rather chaotic post-war occupied Germany, the city of Hamburg refused the use of its coat of arms in a private publication at the last moment; so instead the space reserved for it on the printing plate was filled with that of the nearby city of Bremen, as one of the founders was a friend of the mayor of Bremen.
References
- ^ "Marion Gräfin Dönhoff - Obituaries, News". The Independent. 2002-03-12. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/marion-gratildecurrenfin-datildeparanhoff-755409.html. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
- ^ "The yin and yang of human rights in China". The Japan Times Online. 2010-09-05. http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/eo20100905fc.html.
- ^ Divided on unification The Economist 2010-10-04
External links
- Official website (German)
- Zeit online on Twitter
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