''Die Welt'' ("The World") is a German national

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Axel Springer SE Axel Springer SE () is a German digital and popular periodical publishing house which is the largest in Europe, with numerous multimedia news brands, such as '' Bild'', ''Die Welt'', and '' Fakt'' and more than 15,000 employees. It generated t ...

. ''Die Welt'' is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the ''

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''. The modern paper takes a self-described "liberal

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" position in editing, but it is generally considered to be conservative."The World from Berlin"
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'', 4 October 2010. As of 2016, the average circulation of ''Die Welt'' is about 180,000. The paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in

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and Hamburg. A daily regional supplement also appears in

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. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the ''

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''. ''Die Welt'' was a founding member of the

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, and has a longstanding co-operation with comparable daily newspapers from other countries, including ''

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'' (UK), ''

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'' (France), and ''

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'' (Spain). From 2004 to 2019, the newspaper also published a

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edition entitled ''Welt Kompakt'', a 32-page cut-down version of the main

targeted to a younger public. The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publication ''

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'' takes its place.

History

''Die Welt'' was founded in

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in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on ''

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''. It originally carried news and British-viewpoint editorial content, but from 1947 it adopted a policy of providing two leading articles on major questions, one British and one German. The newspaper was bought by Axel Springer in 1953. The 1993 circulation of the paper was 209,677 copies. At its peak in the occupation period, it had a circulation of around a million. In 2002 the paper experimented with a

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n edition. In November 2010, a redesign for the newspaper was launched, featuring a new logo with a dark blue globe, a reduced number of columns from seven to six, and typography based on the Freight typeface designed by

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. ''Welt Kompakt'' was also redesigned to use that typeface. In 2009, the Sunday edition ''

'' was recognized as one of the "World's Best-Designed Newspapers" by the

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, along with four other newspapers. On 2 May 2014, the Swiss German business magazine ''

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'' began to be published as a monthly supplement of ''Die Welt''. On 18 January 2018 the German TV channel N24 changed its name to Welt.

Bans

The paper was banned in

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in February 2008 due to the publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet

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''Welt''-Literaturpreis

Since 1999, the ''Die Welt'' book supplement ''Die Literarische Welt'' ("The Literary World") has presented an annual literature prize available to international authors. The award is in honor of Willy Haas who founded ''Die Literarische Welt'' in 1925.

Recipients

* 1999

Bernhard Schlink Bernhard Schlink (; born 6 July 1944) is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel '' The Reader'', which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize. Ear ...

* 2000

Imre Kertész Imre Kertész (; 9 November 192931 March 2016) was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was ...

* 2001

Pat Barker Patricia Mary W. Barker, (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and pl ...

* 2002

Leon de Winter Leon de Winter (born 24 February 1954) is a Dutch writer and columnist. Early life Leon de Winter was born on 24 February 1954 in Den Bosch, in the southern Netherlands. He grew up in a Jewish orthodox family and attended City Grammar Schoo ...

* 2003

Jeffrey Eugenides Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: ''The Virgin Suicides'' (1993), ''Middlesex'' (2002), and'' The Marriage Plot'' ...

* 2004

Amos Oz Amos Oz ( he, עמוס עוז; born Amos Klausner; 4 May 1939 – 28 December 2018) was an Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual. He was also a professor of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. From 1967 onw ...

* 2005

Yasmina Reza Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays Art and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 blac ...

* 2006

Rüdiger Safranski Rüdiger Safranski (born 1 January 1945) is a German philosopher and author. Life From 1965 to 1972, Safranski studied philosophy (among others with Theodor W. Adorno), German literature, history and history of art at Goethe University i ...

* 2007

Daniel Kehlmann Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Hans Keilson * 2009

Philip Roth Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist and short story writer. Roth's fiction—often set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey—is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophicall ...

* 2010

Claude Lanzmann Claude Lanzmann (; 27 November 1925 – 5 July 2018) was a French filmmaker known for the Holocaust documentary film '' Shoah'' (1985). Early life Lanzmann was born on 27 November 1925 in Paris, France, the son of Paulette () and Armand Lanzmann. ...

* 2011 * 2012

Zeruya Shalev Zeruya Shalev ( he, צרויה שלו, born 13 May 1959) is a bestselling Israeli author. Biography Zeruya Shalev was born on Kibbutz Kinneret. She has an MA in Bible studies and works as a literary editor at Keshet publishing house. On 29 Ja ...

* 2013

Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel '' The Corrections'', a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Pr ...

*2014

Murakami Haruki is a Japanese writer. His novels, essays, and short stories have been bestsellers in Japan and internationally, with his work translated into 50 languages and having sold millions of copies outside Japan. He has received numerous awards for his ...

*2015

Karl Ove Knausgård Karl Ove Knausgård (; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for six autobiographical novels, titled ''My Struggle'' (''Min Kamp''). Since the completion of the ''My Struggle'' series in 2011, he has also publis ...

*2016

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She has been a tenured professor ...

*2018

Virginie Despentes Virginie Despentes (; born 13 June 1969) is a French writer, novelist, and filmmaker. She is known for her work exploring gender, sexuality, and people who live in poverty or other marginalised conditions. Work Despentes' work is an inventory of ...

*2019

Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and We ...

Editors

* Rudolf Küstermeier (1946–1953) * Bernhard Menne (1950) * Paul Bourdin (1950) * Hans Scherer, Adalbert Worliczek, Adolf Helbig (1950–1952) * Albert Komma (1952–1953) * Hans Zehrer (1946 / 1953–1966) * Herbert Kremp (1969–1985) * Manfred Schell (1985–1992) * Peter Gillies (1985–1988)/(1992–1995) * Claus Jacobi (1993–1995) * Thomas Löffelholz (1995–1998) *

Mathias Döpfner Mathias Döpfner (born 15 January 1963) is a German businessman and journalist. He is the CEO and 22% owner of media group Axel Springer SE, and president of the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV). Early li ...

(1998–2000) * Wolfram Weimer (2000–2002) * Jan-Eric Peters (2002 – 31 December 2006) * Thomas Schmid (1 January 2007 – 2010) * Jan-Eric Peters (since 2010)''Thomas Schmid wird Herausgeber der WELT-Gruppe/ BERLINER MORGENPOST''
Axel Springer SE press release

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Welt 1946 establishments in Germany Axel Springer SE Centre-right newspapers Conservative media in Germany Daily newspapers published in Germany German-language newspapers German news websites Liberal conservatism Newspapers published in Hamburg Newspapers published in Berlin Publications established in 1946