("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading competitors are the , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau. The modern paper takes a self-described "liberal cosmopolitan" position in editing, but it is generally considered to be conservative.
As of 2014, the average circulation of is about 180,000. The paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in Berlin and Hamburg. A daily regional supplement also appears in Bremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the Berliner Morgenpost.
was a founding member of the European Dailies Alliance, and has a longstanding co-operation with comparable daily newspapers from other countries, including The Daily Telegraph (UK), (France), and ABC (Spain).
From 2004 to 2019, the newspaper also published a compact edition entitled Welt Kompakt, a 32-page cut-down version of the main broadsheet targeted to a younger public. The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publication Welt am Sonntag takes its place.
History
was founded in Hamburg in 1946 by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modelled on The Times. 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 Bavarian 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 Joshua Darden. Welt Kompakt was also redesigned to use that typeface. In 2009, the Sunday edition Welt am Sonntag was recognized as one of the "World's Best-Designed Newspapers" by the Society for News Design, along with four other newspapers.
On 2 May 2014, the Swiss German business magazine BILANZ began to be published as a monthly supplement of .
On 18 January 2018 the German TV channel N24 changed its name to Welt.
Bans
The paper was banned in Egypt in February 2008 due to the publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Welt-Literaturpreis
Since 1999, the 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
2000 Imre Kertész
2001 Pat Barker
2002 Leon de Winter
2003 Jeffrey Eugenides
2004 Amos Oz
2005 Yasmina Reza
2006 Rüdiger Safranski
2007 Daniel Kehlmann
2008 Hans Keilson
2009 Philip Roth
2010 Claude Lanzmann
2011
2012 Zeruya Shalev
2013 Jonathan Franzen
2014 Murakami Haruki
2015 Karl Ove Knausgård
2016 Zadie Smith
2018 Virginie Despentes
2019 Salman Rushdie
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 (1998–2000) Wolfram Weimer (2000–2002) Jan-Eric Peters (2002 – 31 December 2006) Thomas Schmid (1 January 2007 – 2010) Jan-Eric Peters (since 2010)
See also
William Denholm Barnetson
Media of Germany
References
Further reading
Merrill, John C., and Harold A. Fisher. The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers (1980) pp. 353–60