Focus (German magazine)

Focus
EditorFranziska Reich
Georg Meck
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation240,330 (01/2024)
FounderHelmut Markwort
First issue18 January 1993; 31 years ago (1993-01-18)
CompanyHubert Burda Media
CountryGermany
Based inBerlin
LanguageGerman
Websitefocus.de
ISSN0943-7576
Robert Schneider, editor-in-chief of Focus from 2016 to 2023

Focus (stylized in all caps) is a German-language news magazine published by Hubert Burda Media.[1][2] Established in 1993 as an alternative to the Der Spiegel weekly news magazine,[3][4] since 2015 the editorial staff has been headquartered in Germany's capital of Berlin.[5] Alongside Spiegel and Stern, Focus is one of the three most widely circulated German weeklies.[6][7] The concept originated from Hubert Burda and Helmut Markwort,[8] who went from being Editor-in-chief to become publisher in 2009 and since 2017 has been listed in the publication's masthead as founding editor-in-chief.[9][10] As of March 2016 the editor-in-chief of Focus was Robert Schneider.[11][12]

  1. ^ "15 Jahre Fakten, Fakten, Fakten". Focus Online (in German). 18 January 2008. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Focus feiert 20-jähriges Bestehen". Der Standard (in German). 14 January 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  3. ^ Ekkehard Kohrs (19 January 1993), "Burdas Kampfansage an Augstein", Bonner General-Anzeiger (in German), p. 3
  4. ^ Rainer Hoffmann (21 January 1993), "Bunter Spiegel", Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German)
  5. ^ "Nachrichtenmagazin: Focus zieht nach Berlin um". Spiegel Online (in German). 10 September 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  6. ^ "Ein starkes Führungs-Trio", Horizont (in German), p. 66, 20 November 2003
  7. ^ "Focus, Spiegel, Stern: Die Großen im tiefen Wandel", Nordkurier (in German), p. 25, 27 August 2014
  8. ^ Heidrun Plewe (17 December 1993), "Wenige glaubten zunächst an den Erfolg", Horizont (in German), p. 20
  9. ^ "Focus-Chefredakteur Markwort geht". Zeit Online (in German). 29 October 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  10. ^ Marvin Schade (17 January 2017). "Ende einer Ära: Magazin-Gründer Helmut Markwort gibt Focus-Herausgeberschaft ab". Meedia (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2017.
  11. ^ Sonja Álvarez (21 January 2016). "Neuer Chefredakteur für den Focus". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  12. ^ "Neuer Focus-Chef kommt von der Super Illu". Spiegel Online (in German). 21 January 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2016.