Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung

Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung
Cover of issue of 26 August 1936: first meeting between Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola
Frequencyweekly
Founded1891
First issue4 January 1892 (1892-01-04)
Final issue1945
CompanyUllstein Verlag
CountryGermany
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman

The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, often abbreviated BIZ, was a German weekly illustrated magazine published in Berlin from 1892 to 1945. It was the first mass-market German magazine and pioneered the format of the illustrated news magazine.

The Berliner Illustrirte was published on Thursdays but bore the date of the following Sunday.[1]

  1. ^ Peter de Mendelssohn, Zeitungsstadt Berlin: Menschen und Mächte in der Geschichte der deutschen Presse, Berlin: Ullstein, 1959, OCLC 3006301, p. 364 (2nd ed. Frankfurt/Berlin/Vienna: Ullstein, 1982, ISBN 9783550074967) (in German)