List of newspapers in Germany

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 ivw.de which tracks circulations of all publications in Germany.

National subscription papers

Daily national subscription papers

No. Newspaper Abbrv. Circulation (January, 2018) Frequency Political alignment Publisher/Parent Company
1 Bild Bild 1,150,181 Monday - Saturday centre-right Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer))
2 Süddeutsche Zeitung SZ 361,507 Monday - Saturday 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 Monday - Friday centre-right/ moderately conservative to liberal Fazit-Stiftung
4 Die Welt 165,686 Monday - Friday centre-right/ conservative to liberal Axel Springer AG (Axel Springer Gesellschaft für Publizistik GmbH & Co. (Friede Springer))
5 Handelsblatt 130,864 Monday - Friday economically liberal Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
6 Der Tagesspiegel 113,716 Monday - Sunday liberal, centrist Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
7 Die Tageszeitung taz 51,873 Monday - Saturday left-wing, green taz, die tageszeitung Verlagsgenossenschaft eG
8 Neues Deutschland ND 25,158 Monday - Saturday left-wing, socialist Neues Deutschland Druckerei und Verlags GmbH and The Left Party
9 Junge Welt jW c. 19,000 Monday - Saturday far-left, Marxist Verlag 8. Mai

Weekly national subscription papers

No. Newspaper Abbrv. Circulation Frequency Political alignment Publisher/Parent Company
4/2015 Change
1 Die Zeit 511,806 Increase0.2% weekly centrist/ liberal or left-liberal Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Monika Schoeller, Stefan von Holtzbrinck)
2 Junge Freiheit JF 25,868 Increase16.5% weekly right-wing, conservative Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH & Co (Dieter Stein)
3 Der Freitag 19,708 weekly left-wing, left-liberal Jakob Augstein
4 Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung PAZ 18,000 weekly right-wing, "Prussian conservative" Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen
5 Jungle World JW c. 11,585 weekly far-left, undogmatic Jungle World Verlags GmbH

National 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 or local subscription papers in Germany (not exhaustive)

Boulevard papers ("tabloid" style)

A Bild kiosk

Boulevardzeitungen (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

Non-German-language newspapers

See also


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