Die Welt

This article is about the German newspaper published by Axel Springer SE. For the weekly newspaper founded by Theodor Herzl, see Die Welt (Herzl).

Die Welt
The 1 September 2020 front page of Die Welt
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Axel Springer SE
PublisherStefan Aust
Editor-in-chiefJennifer Wilton [de]
EditorDagmar Rosenfeld
Founded2 April 1946
Political alignmentConservatism[1][2][3][4]
Liberal conservatism[5]
Centre-right[6] / Right-wing[4]
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
ISSN0173-8437
Websitewww.welt.de Edit this at Wikidata
Previous logo (2010 – 29 November 2015)

Die Welt ("The World") is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE. Die Welt is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group, and considered a newspaper of record in Germany. Its leading competitors are the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 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.[1][2][3]

As of 2014, the average circulation of Die Welt is about 180,000.[7] 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.[citation needed]

Die Welt 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), Le Figaro (France), and ABC (Spain).[8]

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.[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b "The World from Berlin". Der Spiegel, 28 December 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Divided on unification". The Economist, 4 October 2010.
  3. ^ a b Heimy Taylor, Werner Haas, ed. (2007). German: A Self-Teaching Guide. John Wiley & Sons. p. 243. ISBN 9780470165515. ... They represent different political opinions—for instance, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (liberal), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (conservative-liberal), or Die Welt (conservative). Add to that (literally: to that, come) political ...
  4. ^ a b Banu Baybars-Hawks, ed. (2014). Framing Violence: Conflicting Images, Identities, and Discourses. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 104. ISBN 9781443844970. The conservative right-wing newspaper, Die Welt, covers Turkey with eight articles in this period again with a focus on EU-Turkey relations.
  5. ^ Keith Gilbert; Otto J. Schantz; Otto Schantz, eds. (2008). The Paralympic Games: Empowerment Or Side Show?. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. p. 41. ISBN 9781841262659. Le Figaro as well as the German Die Welt have a liberal conservative tradition and represent right-of- center goals.
  6. ^ Ross Beveridge, ed. (2011). A Politics of Inevitability: The Privatisation of the Berlin Water Company, the Global City Discourse and Governance in 1990s Berlin. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 143. ISBN 9783531940564. Fitch's search of the left-wing newspaper Die Tageszeitung as well as the centre-right Die Welt revealed no articles ...
  7. ^ "Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern e.V." Archived from the original on 11 November 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  8. ^ "Quatre quotidiens conservateurs scellent une alliance européenne" [Four conservative dailies seal a European alliance]. Le Monde (in French). 10 May 2001. Archived from the original on 24 March 2024. Retrieved 24 March 2024.