List of newspapers in Germany - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Below is a list of newspapers in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, sorted according to circulation as of early 2003 (magazines mid 2005; national subscription papers end 2008), as listed at ivw.de which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.

National boulevard papers

Bild (3,918,507 copies) — http://www.bild.de

also called “Bildzeitung”; with several regional issues/editions like “Bild Hamburg” or “Bild Köln

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

”. The “Bild” can be compared to tabloids, but the page size is bigger (broadsheet

Broadsheet

Broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages . The term derives from types of popular prints usually just of a single sheet, sold on the streets and containing various types of material, from ballads to political satire. The first broadsheet...

Regional boulevard papers (tabloids)

Express in Cologne and the Rhineland
Rhineland
Historically, the Rhinelands refers to a loosely-defined region embracing the land on either bank of the River Rhine in central Europe....

— (231,188 copies) http://www.express.de
Hamburger Morgenpost
Hamburger Morgenpost
Hamburger Morgenpost is a daily German newspaper, published in Hamburg in tabloid format.The Hamburger Morgenpost is the second largest newspaper in Hamburg.- History :...

(146,370 copies) — http://www.mopo.de

National subscription papers

Germany's national subscription papers
No.	Newspaper	Abbreviation	Circulation	Frequency	Political alignment	Publisher/Parent Company	Website
1	Die Zeit Die Zeit Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...		653,533	weekly	centrist/liberal	Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike... (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)	http://www.zeit.de
2	Süddeutsche Zeitung Süddeutsche Zeitung The Süddeutsche Zeitung , published in Munich, is the largest German national subscription daily newspaper.-Profile:The title literally translates as "South German Newspaper". It is read throughout Germany by 1.1 million readers daily and boasts a relatively high circulation abroad...	SZ	559,287	daily	Centre/Progressive liberalism	Südwestdeutsche Medien Holding (Gruppe Württembergischer Verleger (Neue Pressegesellschaft mbh & Co. KG (Eberhard Ebner)), Medien Union (Dieter Schaub))	http://www.sueddeutsche.de
3	Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is a national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .F.A.Z...	FAZ	477,407	daily	liberal-conservative	Fazit-Stiftung (Wolfgang Bernhardt)	http://www.faz.net
4	Die Welt Die Welt Die Welt is a German national daily newspaper published by the Axel Springer AG company.It was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times...		350,240	daily	conservative	Axel Springer AG Axel Springer AG Axel Springer AG is one of the largest multimedia companies in Europe, with more than 11,500 employees and with annual revenues of about €2.9 billion. The Company is active in a total of 36 countries, including Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Russia and Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland... (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer Friede Springer Friede Springer is a German publisher and widow of Axel Springer.... ))	http://www.welt.de
5	Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurter Rundschau The Frankfurter Rundschau is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. It is published every day but Sunday as a city, two regional and one nationwide issues and offers an online edition as well as an e-paper...	FR	203,917	daily	liberal	M. DuMont Schauberg M. DuMont Schauberg M. DuMont Schauberg is one of Germany's oldest and largest publishing houses. Founded by Bertram Hilden in 1620, Marcus du Mont acquired the "Kölnische Zeitung" in 1805 - then the business's main newspaper... (Alfred Neven DuMont)	http://www.fr-online.de
6	Der Tagesspiegel Der Tagesspiegel Der Tagesspiegel is a classical liberal German daily newspaper...		184,830	daily	classical liberal	Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike... (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)	http://www.tagesspiegel.de
7	Handelsblatt Handelsblatt The Handelsblatt is a leading German language business newspaper, published in Düsseldorf by the Verlagsgruppe Handelsblatt. It has a circulation of 145.437 daily copies. Its editor-in-chief is Gabor Steingart...		145,437	daily	Economic interventionism, Social liberalism	Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike... (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)	http://www.handelsblatt.de
8	Financial Times Deutschland Financial Times Deutschland The Financial Times Deutschland is a German language financial newspaper based in Hamburg, Germany, and is published by Gruner + Jahr. The newspaper contains four sections: Business, Politics & Economy, Finance, and Agenda .Founded in February 2000, the circulation grew to 103,000 readers in the...		129,601	daily		Gruner + Jahr Gruner + Jahr Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Hamburg, Germany.-History:Originally founded on August 1, 1948 as the Henri Nannen publishing house, Gruner + Jahr was created in 1965 from a merger by acquisition, by publishers John Jahr Sr.... (Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Bertelsmann AG is a multinational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,983 workers , which makes it the most international media corporation in the world. In 2008 the company reported a €16.118 billion consolidated... (Bertelsmann Foundation Bertelsmann Foundation The Bertelsmann Foundation is the largest private operating non-profit foundation in Germany, created in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn. The Bertelsmann Foundation holds 77.4 percent of Bertelsmann AG.... (Brigitte Mohn, Gunter Thielen Gunter Thielen Gunter Thielen is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bertelsmann Foundation.He graduated from RWTH Aachen University, with a PhD, in mechanical engineering and economics... , Liz Mohn Liz Mohn Liz Mohn née Beckmann is the widow of Reinhard Mohn, the owner of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann. She serves on the supervisory board of Bertelsmann and on the board of the Bertelsmann Foundation.... )))	http://ftd.de
9	die tageszeitung Die tageszeitung die tageszeitung , was founded in 1978 in Berlin. It is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper which is administrated by a workers' self-management...	taz	80,262	daily	left	taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG (Ines Pohl)	http://www.taz.de
10	Neues Deutschland Neues Deutschland Neues Deutschland is a national German daily newspaper. It was the official party newspaper of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany , which governed the German Democratic Republic , and as such served as one of the party's most important organs...	ND	48,811		Socialist, Communist	Communio Beteiligungsgenossenschaft eG (Jürgen Reents), Föderative Verlags-, Consulting- und Handelsgesellschaft mbH – FEVAC (The Left The Left (Germany) The Left , also commonly referred to as the Left Party , is a democratic socialist political party in Germany. The Left is the most left-wing party of the five represented in the Bundestag.... (Gesine Lötzsch Gesine Lötzsch Gesine Lötzsch [geˈsinə løːtʃ] is a German politician of the left-wing party Die Linke. She was elected president of Die Linke in 2010 .... , Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left... ))	http://www.neues-deutschland.de
11	Junge Freiheit Junge Freiheit The Junge Freiheit is a German weekly newspaper for politics and culture, that describes itself as liberal-conservative...	JF	19.483	weekly	right, nationalist	Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH & Co (Dieter Stein Dieter Stein Dieter Stein is a German journalist, publisher, editor-in-chief and founder of the right wing newspaper Junge Freiheit.... )	http://www.jungefreiheit.de
12	Junge Welt Junge Welt junge Welt is a German daily newspaper published in Berlin. The jW describes itself as a left and Marxist newspaperIt was first published on 12 February 1947 in the Soviet Sector of Berlin. junge Welt became the official newspaper of the Central Council of the Free German Youth on 12 November 1947...	jW	17,000		left, Marxist	Verlag 8. Mai (Arnold Schölzel Arnold Schölzel Arnold Angelus Schölzel is the editor-in-chief of the far-left newspaper Junge Welt. Prior to 1989, he worked at East Berlin's Humboldt University and also was an informant for the East German domestic intelligence agency Stasi.-Life:Schölzel grew up in Bremen in West Germany... )	http://www.jungewelt.de

Details

Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

) and Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

) are both national and regional papers (with long regional tradition).

Handelsblatt and Financial Times Deutschland are financial newspaper which are not published on Saturday (and not Sunday, of course).

A foreign newspaper in German language with high reputation is the Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a major German language Swiss daily newspaper based in Zurich.One of the oldest newspapers still published, it originally appeared as Zürcher Zeitung, edited by Salomon Gessner, from January 12, 1780, and was renamed to Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1821...

which is sold at several shops in Germany with its ‘international edition’.

Germany's national news magazines

Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...

(weekly (on Monday) - 1,113,000 copies) — http://www.spiegel.de
Der Stern (weekly (on Thursday) - 1,053,000 copies) — http://www.stern.de
Focus
Focus (German magazine)
Focus is a German weekly news magazine published in Munich and distributed throughout Germany. It is the third-largest weekly news magazine in Germany. It is considered conservative and leaned towards economic liberalism.- Overview :...

(weekly (on Monday) - 791,000 copies) — http://www.focus.de
Wirtschaftswoche
WirtschaftsWoche
Wirtschaftswoche is a German weekly business news magazine. “Wirtschaft” means economy and “Woche” is week. For many years, the magazine was published on Thursday, but since March 2006, this has been changed to Monday. The editorial office is at Düsseldorf....

(weekly (on Monday) - 186,096 copies) — http://www.wiwo.de
Manager Magazin (monthly, 106,846 copies) — http://www.manager-magazin.de/
Cicero (monthly, 81,032 copies) — http://www.cicero.de

Both “Der Spiegel” and “Focus” are now out on Sunday with early prints;
for “Spiegel International” in English on the internet: http://www.spiegel.de/international

Regional subscription papers in Germany

Aachener Zeitung — http://www.az-web.de
Aachener Nachrichten — http://www.an-online.de
Augsburger Allgemeine
Augsburger Allgemeine
The Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung is a major German regional daily newspaper published since 1945.-History:The newspaper was first published on 30 October 1945 under the name of Schwäbische Landeszeitung, under the initiative of Curt Frenzel. Originally, due to the restrictions in early post-war...

(350,000 copies) — http://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de
Badische Zeitung
Badische Zeitung
Badische Zeitung is a German newspaper based in Freiburg, covering the Black Forest region. It has a circulation of 151,000 and about 440,000 readers....

(Freiburg) — (150,000 copies) — http://www.badische-zeitung.de/
Berliner Morgenpost
Berliner Morgenpost
Berliner Morgenpost is a German newspaper, based and mainly read in Berlin, where it is the second most read daily newspaper. Founded in 1898 by Leopold Ullstein, it was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1959. The paper had a circulation of 145,556 issues in 2009, with an estimated 322,000 readers...

(127,469 copies) — http://www.morgenpost.de/
Berliner Zeitung
Berliner Zeitung
The Berliner Zeitung, founded in 1945, is a German center-left daily newspaper based in Berlin, published by Berliner Verlag. It is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since unification. In 2003, the Berliner was Berlin's largest subscription newspaper—the weekend...

(207,800 copies) — http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/
Freie Presse
Freie Presse (Saxony)
The Freie Presse is a regional daily newspaper in the Chemnitz region, first published in 1963.With a circulation of 277,221 copies, it is the biggest-selling newspaper in Saxony....

(Chemnitz
Chemnitz
Chemnitz is the third-largest city of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. Chemnitz is an independent city which is not part of any county and seat of the government region Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz. Located in the northern foothills of the Ore Mountains, it is a part of the Saxon triangle...

) — http://www.freiepresse.de
General-Anzeiger (Bonn)
General-Anzeiger
The General-Anzeiger is a regional daily newspaper based in the city of Bonn, the former West German capital in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In addition to the city and its urban surrounds, the distribution of the newspaper and its local editions extends to the neighbouring...

(85,000 copies) — http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de
General-Anzeiger (Reutlingen
Reutlingen
Reutlingen is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of April 2008, it has a population of 109,828....

) — http://www.gea.de
Hamburger Abendblatt
Hamburger Abendblatt
The Hamburger Abendblatt is a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, published by Axel Springer AG. The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with the Hamburger Morgenpost's introduction of a Sunday edition...

— http://www.abendblatt.de/
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung
Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung is a German newspaper with a circulation of 158.000 and a widespread resonance all over Germany. It is distributed in Hanover and in all Lower Saxony.Ulrich Neufert leads the HAZ as chief journalist...

— http://www.haz.de
Kieler Nachrichten
Kieler Nachrichten
The Kieler Nachrichten or KN is the only German language newspaper published in Kiel, Germany. It is published by "Kieler Zeitung Verlags und Druckerei KG-GmbH & Co.", a subdivision of Axel Springer AG which owns 24.5 percent of the company...

— http://www.kn-online.de/
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
The Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger is a daily newspaper published in Cologne, Germany, and has the largest circulation in the Cologne/Bonn Metropolitan Region...

— http://www.ksta.de
Leipziger Volkszeitung — http://www.lvz-online.de
Lübecker Nachrichten
Lübecker Nachrichten
The Lübecker Nachrichten is a regional daily newspaper in Germany, covering Schleswig-Holstein and western Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is, along with the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag and the Kieler Nachrichten, one of the largest daily newspapers in Schleswig-Holstein.LN appears daily...

— http://www.ln-online.de
Münstersche Zeitung — http://www.muensterschezeitung.de/
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung — http://www.neue-oz.de/
Oldenburgische Volkszeitung — http://www.ov-online.de/
Oberhessische Presse
Oberhessische Presse
The Oberhessische Presse is a regional, daily newspaper published by the Hitzeroth Druck + Medien GmbH & Co. KG for the district of Marburg-Biedenkopf in Hesse, Germany....

(30,441 copies) — http://www.op-marburg.de/
Rheinische Post
Rheinische Post
The Rheinische Post is a major German regional daily newspaper, published since 1946 by the Rheinische Post Verlagsgesellschaft mbH company....

(Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...

) — (493,000 copies) — http://www.rp-online.de
Ruhr Nachrichten (Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....

) — http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/
Die Rheinpfalz (Ludwigshafen) — (250,000 copies) — http://www.rheinpfalz.de
Sächsische Zeitung
Sächsische Zeitung
Sächsische Zeitung is a German daily newspaper. Founded on 13 April 1946, the Sächsische Zeitung's main office is based in Dresden. It is the largest newspaper in Saxony, with 95 % of its copies distributed through subscriptions. Ownership stakes have it leaning slightly towards the centre-left...

(Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

) — http://www.sz-online.de
Stuttgarter Nachrichten — http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
Stuttgarter Zeitung
Stuttgarter Zeitung
The Stuttgarter Zeitung is a German-language daily newspaper edited in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with a run of about 200,000 sold copies daily....

(StZ) — http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/
Südwest-Presse (Ulm
Ulm
Ulm is a city in the federal German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the River Danube. The city, whose population is estimated at 120,000 , forms an urban district of its own and is the administrative seat of the Alb-Donau district. Ulm, founded around 850, is rich in history and...

) — http://www.swp.de/
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung is a leading commercial newspaper from Essen, Germany, published by WAZ-Mediengruppe.It was founded by Erich Brost and first published 3 April 1948....

(Essen
Essen
- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...

)— http://www.derwesten.de
Westfälische Nachrichten (Münster
Münster
Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

)— http://www.westfaelische-nachrichten.de/

Local subscription papers

Abendzeitung
Abendzeitung
The Abendzeitung , sometimes abbreviated to AZ, is a liberal morning tabloid newspaper from Munich, Germany. A localized edition is published in Nuremberg. The paper is published six days a week; the masthead of the Saturday edition is held in light blue...

(Munich); http://www.abendzeitung.de
Bergedorfer Zeitung (Hamburg); http://www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de
Harburger Anzeigen und Nachrichten (Hamburg); http://www.han-online.de
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Pforzheimer Zeitung
Pforzheimer Zeitung is an independent local subscription newspaper with seat in Pforzheim, which is mainly distributed and read in the city of Pforzheim and the surrounding Enz district. Its language of publication is German and it appears daily, from Monday to Saturday...

over 100,000 copies; http://www.pz-news.de

Non-German-language dailies

Flensborg Avis
Flensborg Avis
Flensborg Avis is a Danish language daily newspaper, published in Flensburg , Germany.Flensborg Avis was founded October 1, 1869, in Flensburg by members of the Danish minority in the Province of Schleswig-Holstein. It now represents the Danish minority in Southern Schleswig...

(in Danish, Flensburg
Flensburg
Flensburg is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig...

) — http://www.flensborg-avis.de
Vesti
Vesti
Russia 24 is a VGTRK-owned international and national Russian-language news channel from Russia. It covers major national and international events with a Russian perspective and a focus on domestic issues....

, in Serbian, published in or near Frankfurt am Main
Hürriyet
Hürriyet
-External links:* * ** * *...

, in Turkish, published in Mörfelden-Walldorf
Mörfelden-Walldorf
Mörfelden-Walldorf is a town in the Groß-Gerau district, situated in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region in Hessen, Germany.- Location :Mörfelden-Walldorf is situated within a triangle formed by the South Hessian cities of Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, near Frankfurt International...
Karadeniz
Karadeniz
Karadeniz means "Black Sea" in Turkish. See Black Sea Region , a region of Turkey.-Surname:It is also a surname and may refer to:* Gökdeniz Karadeniz, Turkish football player* Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish football player...

, in Turkish
The Munich Times, in English, — http://www.themunichtimes.com
Serbske Nowiny (in Sorbian, Bautzen
Bautzen
Bautzen is a hill-top town in eastern Saxony, Germany, and administrative centre of the eponymous district. It is located on the Spree River. As of 2008, its population is 41,161...

) — http://www.serbske-nowiny.de
Stars and Stripes
Stars and Stripes (newspaper)
Stars and Stripes is a news source that operates from inside the United States Department of Defense but is editorially separate from it. The First Amendment protection which Stars and Stripes enjoys is safeguarded by Congress to whom an independent ombudsman, who serves the readers' interests,...

, in English, published in Griesheim
Griesheim
Griesheim is a town in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district, in Hessen, Germany. It is situated approx. 7 km west of Darmstadt.-History:...
Yeni Özgür Politika, in Turkish, published in Neu-Isenburg
Neu-Isenburg
The “Huguenot Town” of Neu-Isenburg with its outlying centres of Gravenbruch and Zeppelinheim is found in the Offenbach district in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, right near Frankfurt am Main...

External links

ThePaperboy.com List of Online Newspapers in Germany

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