The number of national daily newspapers in Germany was 598 in 1950, whereas it was 375 in 1965. 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 Bild Bild1,150,181 Mon–Sat Centre-right PopulistAxel Springer AG ( (Friede Springer)) 2 Süddeutsche Zeitung SZ 361,507 Mon–Sat Centre-left/ left-liberal or "critical-liberal" Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding (Gruppe Württembergischer Verleger (Neue Pressegesellschaft mbh & Co. KG (Eberhard Ebner))), Medien Union (Dieter Schaub) 3 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ 254,263 Mon–Fri Centre-right/ moderately conservative to liberal 4 Die Welt 165,686 Mon–Fri Centre-right"The press in Germany", by BBC News 31 October 2006; Retrieved 13 March 2017./ conservative to liberal Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer)) 5 Handelsblatt 130,864 Mon–Fri Economically liberal Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) 6 Der Tagesspiegel 113,716 Mon–Sun Liberal,University of Warwick - Warwick German Studies Web, Retrieved 14 March 2017. centrist Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) 7 Die Tageszeitung taz 51,873 Mon–Sat Left-wing, green taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG 8 Neues Deutschland ND 25,158 Mon–Sat Left-wing, socialist Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlags GmbH and The Left Party 9 Junge Welt jW c. 19,000 Mon–Sat Far-left, Marxist Verlag 8. Mai 10 Westfalen-Blatt
Weekly national subscription papers + No. Newspaper Abbrv. Circulation Political alignment Publisher/Parent Company 4/2015 Change 1 Die Zeit 511,806 0.2% / center-leftSocial democracySPD endorsement Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck) 2 Junge Freiheit JF 25,868 16.5% Right-wing,The Economist- "German conservatives", Retrieved 14 March 2017. conservative Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH & Co (Dieter Stein) 3 Der Freitag 19,708 Left-wing,"Zum Kauf des "Freitag" durch Jakob Augstein", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017. left-liberal"Verleger und Geschäftsführer des Freitag", (german) Retrieved 14 March 2017. Jakob Augstein 4 Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung PAZ 18,000 Right-wing, "Prussian conservative" Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen 5 Jungle World JW c. 11,585 Far-left, undogmatic Jungle World Verlags GmbH
News magazines Der Spiegel (weekly (Saturday) left-liberal — 830,349 copies) Stern (weekly (Thursday) left-liberal — 734,859 copies) Focus (weekly (Saturday) liberal-conservative — 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.
Berliner Zeitung Berliner Morgenpost Hamburger Abendblatt Kieler Nachrichten Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung Braunschweiger Zeitung Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Rheinische Post Westfälische Nachrichten Aachener Zeitung Saarbrücker Zeitung Main-Post Nürnberger Nachrichten Augsburger Allgemeine Stuttgarter Zeitung Stuttgarter Nachrichten Badische Zeitung Leipziger Volkszeitung Freie Presse (Sachsen)
Boulevard papers ("tabloid" style)
(sometimes translated as "popular papers") 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 TitleLanguageCity of publicationFlensborg AvisDanishFlensburgHandelsblatt Global EditionEnglishDüsseldorfHürriyetTurkishMörfelden-WalldorfThe Munich EyeEnglishMunichSerbske NowinySorbianBautzen, SaxonyStars and StripesEnglishGriesheimVestiSerbianFrankfurt am MainYeni Özgür PolitikaKurdishNeu-IsenburgBerlinObserverEnglishPPC LandEnglishFrankfurt am Main
See also
History of newspapers and magazines#Germany Media of Germany List of German magazines Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern Full list of modern German newspapers (in German) Full list of antiquarian German newspapers (in German) List of newspapers (by country)
References
Further reading
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)
External links WorldNewsList.com Deutsche Zeitungen NewspaperIndex.com List of Online Newspapers in Germany ThePaperboy.com List of Online Newspapers in Germany German Audit Bureau of Circulation (IVW)