''Die Woche'' (, "The Week") was an illustrated weekly newspaper published in Berlin from 1899 to 1944. It reported on popular entertainment, including "sensationalist crime stories", and covered celebrities in sports and show business. Its publisher was newspaper magnate August Scherl, who also owned the '' Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger'', a Berlin paper. By 1916 Scherl had been bought out by the (politically conservative)

Hugenberg Press Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg (19 June 1865 – 12 March 1951) was an influential German businessman and politician. An important figure in nationalist politics in Germany for the first few decades of the twentieth century, Hugenb ...

, and ''Die Woche'' came to play a part in the politics of the day, specifically in promoting an image of Paul von Hindenburg as both a military man and a civilian, aiding his appeal across the German population. A Turkish weekly magazine, ''

Yedigün ''Yedigün'' ( Turkish: ''Seven Days'') was a weekly illustrated general interest magazine which existed between 1933 and 1950 in Istanbul. It was one of the first publications in its category in Turkey. Sedat Simavi, a prominent Turkish journali ...

'', inspired from ''Die Woche''. Heinrich XXXI

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Ralf Dahrendorf Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, (1 May 1929 – 17 June 2009) was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and a ...

: ''Liberal und unabhängig. Gerd Bucerius und seine Zeit.'' 2nd edition. Beck, München 2000,

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