''Brigitte'' is a biweekly
women's magazine
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in Germany
which has been in circulation since 1886.
History and profile
The magazine was first published in 1886 under the name ''Das Blatt der Hausfrau'' (German: ''Housewife’s Journal'').
Its target audience was the
middle-class
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bourgeois
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housewife and the magazine often covered articles about
child-rearing
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and foods.
[ During ]World War II
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it stopped publication.[
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People
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* Eduard Gruner, Swiss engineer
* Elioth Gruner (1882–1939), Australian painter
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.[ Its headquarters is in Hamburg. The magazine launched its website in April 1997. The target audience of the magazine is both housewives and working women.
Andreas Lebert and ]Brigitte Huber
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* Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), a French actress and singer
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served as co-editors of ''Brigitte''. Lebert, after serving in the post from 2002 to 2012, left the magazine to become editor-in-chief
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of ''Zeit Wissen
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'' magazine.
In 2010 the magazine began to employ women who were not professional models.
Circulation
''Brigitte'' had a circulation of 150,000 copies in 1926.[ It was 940,700 copies in 1999. During the fourth quarter of 2000 its circulation rose to 958,258 copies. In 2001 it was one of top 50 women's magazine worldwide with a circulation of 958,000 copies. In 2004 the magazine had a circulation of 771,281 copies. Its circulation was 693,248 copies in 2010. Brigitte was the best-selling women's magazine in the first quarter of 2018 with a circulation of 389,279 copies.]
See also
* List of magazines in Germany
The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in Germany. Their language may be German or other languages.
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*'' 11 Freunde''
*'' 1000°''
*'' 5vor12''
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*''ABC-Zeitung''
*'' Abenteuer Archäologie''
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References
Literature
* Dora Horvath. (2000). ''Bitte recht weiblich! Frauenleitbilder in der deutschen Zeitschrift ''Brigitte'' 1949-1982''. Chronos Verlag, Zurich.
* Sylvia Lott-Almstadt. (1986). ''Brigitte 1886-1986, Chronik einer Frauenzeitschrift''. Gruner + Jahr AG & Co, Hamburg.
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