Stern (magazine)

Stern
Stern magazine cover on 18 February 2016
EditorGregor Peter Schmitz (since 2022)
CategoriesNews magazine
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation297,000 (Q2 2024)
FounderHenri Nannen
Founded1948
First issue1 August 1948; 76 years ago (1948-08-01)
CompanyGruner + Jahr
CountryGermany
Based inHamburg
LanguageGerman
Websitewww.stern.de
ISSN0039-1239

Stern (pronounced [ʃtɛʁn] ⓘ, German for "Star", stylized in all lowercase) is an illustrated, broadly left-liberal, weekly current affairs magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, by Gruner + Jahr, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann. Under the editorship (1948–1980) of its founder Henri Nannen, it attained a circulation of between 1.5 and 1.8 million, the largest in Europe's for a magazine of its kind.[1]

Unusually for a popular magazine in post-war West Germany, and most notably in the contributions to 1975 of Sebastian Haffner, Stern investigated the origin and nature of the preceding tragedies of German history. In 1983, however, its credibility was seriously damaged by its purchase and syndication of the forged Hitler Diaries. A sharp drop in sales anticipated the general fall in newsprint readership in the new century. By 2019, circulation had fallen under half a million.[2]

  1. ^ Schröder, Jens (12 February 2016). "Historische Analyse: Spiegel und stern im 66-Jahre-Auflagentrend – Rekorde mit Kennedy und dem Irak-Krieg". Meedia [de] (in German). Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Stern: Verkaufte Auflage des Nachrichtenmagazins Stern in den Jahren 1995 bis 2020" (in German). Statista. January 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.