The ''Münchner Merkur'' (, literally "Munich Mercurius", i.e. the Roman god of messengers) is a German Bavarian daily subscription newspaper, which is published from Monday to Saturday. It is located in Munich and belongs to the Müncher Merkur/tz media group. The paid circulation of the ''Münchner Merkur'' is 271.335 copies.

History

The ''Merkur'' was the second newspaper after the ''

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'' which was allowed to be published in Munich. 1968 the subsidiary '' tz'' was brought onto the market as a tabloid. The first edition of what was initially named ''Münchner Mittag'' ("Munich Noon"), was released on 13 November 1946 through a licence of the American

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n publisher Dirk Ippen purchased the Munich newspaper group including the newspapers ''Münchner Merkur'' and '' tz''. Every year since 1996, readers of the ''Münchner Merkur'' have been voting for the winner of the Merkur-Theaterpreis ''(Merkur-theatre-prize)''.

Chief editors

* 1948–1963: Felix Buttersack * 1963–1973: Kurt Wessel * 1973–1975: Franz Wördemann * 1975–1983: Paul Pucher * 1983–1995: Werner Giers * 1995–2000: Peter Fischer (Journalist, 1939), Peter Fischer * 2000–2000: Monika Zimmermann * 2000–2002: Wilhelm Christbaum * 2001–2007: Ernst Hebeker * 2007–2013: Karl Schermann * since 2014: Bettina Bäumlisberger

Readership

''Münchner Merkur'' has recorded 971.000 total readers, 488.000 of them male and 483.000 female readers.

References

External links

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