Stern (magazine)

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Stern
Editor Andreas Petzold, Thomas Osterkorn
Categories News magazine
Frequency Weekly
Circulation 750,810 (2014)
Year founded 1948
First issue 1 August 1948; 75 years ago (1948-08-01)
Company Gruner + Jahr
Country Germany
Based in Hamburg
Language German
Website www.stern.de
ISSN 0039-1239

Stern (pronounced [ʃtɛʁn], German for "Star") is a weekly news magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.

History and profile

Henri Nannen created the magazine[1] out of the youth paper Zick Zack,[2][3] and the first issue appeared on 1 August 1948.[4][5][6] This was possible after obtaining a license from the British military government to rename Zick-Zack to Stern,[7] for which Nannen had taken over the licence a few months before. The first issue had 16 pages, with the cover showing actress Hildegard Knef.[8] Nannen also edited the magazine of which headquarters is in Hamburg.[9]

In 1950 Stern was banned by the British military authorities for one week following the publication of an article criticizing Allies.[2] In the 1960s the magazine became the founding member of the European Car of the Year.[10] In 1965 the magazine was sold to Gruner + Jahr.[5] In 1968, Stern and Die Zeit began publishing the Stern-Zeit bi-weekly paper for the blind, which stopped publication in mid-2007 due to financial problems.

Stern is published on a weekly basis[11] and has a leftist stance.[1] In the 2013 elections the magazine was among the supporters of the SPD.[12]

Circulation

In 1999 the circulation of Stern was 1,124,400 copies.[13] In 2000 the magazine had a circulation of 1,082,000 copies.[11] Its average circulation was 1,186,000 copies in 2003.[14] In the fourth quarter of 2006 its circulation was 1,019,300 copies.[14] It slightly rose to 1,042,000 copies for 2006 as a whole.[15]

Stern had a circulation of 896,000 copies in 2009[16] and 895,962 copies in 2010.[17] The circulation of the magazine was 750,810 copies in 2014.[6]

Incidents

In 1950, after the magazine had published an article about the waste of money by the Allies, the British administration banned it for one week.[8]

It is notorious internationally for publishing the so-called Hitler Diaries in its 28 April 1983 edition.[18] Scientific examination soon proved them forgeries. A British broadsheet newspaper, The Sunday Times, had begun a serialization of the diaries, then abandoned that and issued an official apology.[19] The fiasco led to the resignation of the magazine's editors and a major scandal that is still regarded as a low point in German journalism. The incident caused a major crisis for the magazine. Its credibility was severely damaged and it had to rebuild its reputation from an abysmal level. It took the magazine ten years to regain its pre-scandal status and reputation.[18]

In Germany, it is also remembered for the publication in 1971 of We had an abortion!, a public declaration by several hundred women provoked by Alice Schwarzer to defy its illegality at that time in West Germany.

In 1990, Stern published the title story "I am a masochist" in which author Sina-Aline Geißler discussed her literary coming-out as a member of the BDSM scene. This caused an intense public debate, and radical feminists occupied the editorial office of Stern.

Stern has lost four journalists killed while reporting. In January 1995, Jochen Piest was killed by a sniper near the Chechen capital of Grozny. Gabriel Grüner and Volker Krämer were killed near Dulje, Kosovo. November 2001 saw the death of Volker Handloik in an ambush in northern Afghanistan.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Stern im Schatten des Sterns, Die Zeit, 17/2000
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Jahreschronik Literarisches Leben der Uni Göttingen
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Interview mit Henri Nannen-Meine Stern Stunde
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ 1983: 'Hitler diaries' published BBC
  20. ↑ A Nation Challenged: The News Media; Two French Radio Journalists and a German Are Killed in Taliban Ambush of a Rebel Force The New York Times.

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