DIE ZEIT
Germany's biggest opinion-making weekly newspaper, DIE ZEIT, sells some 480,000 copies every week, reaching almost two million readers. DIE ZEIT is renowned for its passionate journalism, its incisive commentary and its refreshing point of view.
Marion Graefin Doenhoff. Henry Kissinger said of her: "Nobody in my life has moved me more deeply or impressed me more than Marion Doenhoff."
Founded by Gerd Bucerius (1906-1995) in Hamburg in 1946, DIE ZEIT has offered its readers news and background knowledge relating to politics and the economy, arts and sciences, education, society, travel and history every week for more than 60 years. Thanks to its thoroughly researched, in-depth reports and incisive commentary, DIE ZEIT provides its readers with up-to-date knowledge and crucial orientation help. "We want to offer the reader material so that he can form his own opinion; we don’t want to indoctrinate him", said Marion Graefin Doenhoff, editor-in-chief from 1968 to 1972 and publisher from 1973 to 2002.
Today, DIE ZEIT is published by former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and by Josef Joffe and Michael Naumann. Giovanni di Lorenzo is the editor-in-chief. The publishing house and its editorial staff stand for liberal, democratic and social principles.
Printed in four colours throughout, DIE ZEIT now boasts a modern, prize-winning layout. The years 2006 and 2007 saw the paper and its editors continue to receive a number of distinctions, among them the 7th European Newspaper Award, the Henri Nannen Prize, the Media Prize for Language Culture and the Theodor Wolff Prize.
May 2007 saw the launch of the weekly ZEITmagazin Leben. In addition to DIE ZEIT, the publishing house Zeitverlag puts out ZEIT Wissen, ZEIT Geschichte, WELTKUNST and Kursbuch, as well as the student magazine ZEIT Campus, which was newly released in 2006, and ZEIT Studienführer, an orientation guide for students. ZEIT ONLINE, the web version of DIE ZEIT, provides exclusive background information on breaking news. Hosting more than 100 events per year, the publisher also offers a broad program of events relating to politics, the economy, science, the arts and education.
As of June 1, 2009 the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and the family-run business of Dieter von Holtzbrink, DvH Medien GmbH, both own 50% of the publishing house Zeitverlag.
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