Die Woche

Die Woche
Front page of issue 20, 1914.
Typeillustrated weekly newspaper
PublisherAugust Scherl Verlag
Founded1899
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1944
HeadquartersBerlin

Die Woche ([dɪ ˈvɔxə], 'The Week') was an illustrated weekly newspaper published in Berlin from 1899 to 1944.

Overview

Die Woche reported on popular entertainment, including "sensationalist crime stories", and covered celebrities in sports and show business.[1] Its publisher was newspaper magnate August Scherl,[2] who also owned the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, a Berlin paper.[3]

By 1916, Scherl had been bought out by the (politically conservative) Hugenberg Press, and Die Woche came to play a part in the politics of the day, specifically in promoting an image of Paul von Hindenburg as both a military man and a civilian, aiding his appeal across the German population.[1]

A Turkish weekly magazine, Yedigün, was inspired by Die Woche.[4] Between 1993 and 2002, the title Die Woche was used for a completely different kind of weekly newspaper.

The German ambassador in Tehran, 1913, from Die Woche

References

  1. ^ a b Goltz, Anna von der (2009). Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis. Oxford UP. pp. 150–53. ISBN 9780191610042.
  2. ^ Wilke, Jürgen (2002). Unter Druck gesetzt: vier Kapitel deutscher Pressegeschichte. Köln/Weimar: Böhlau. p. 33. ISBN 9783412170011.
  3. ^ Welch, David (2000). Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918: The Sins of Omission. Rutgers UP. p. 49. ISBN 9780813527987.
  4. ^ Sinan Niyazioğlu (2019). "Socialist Realist or Republican Nationalist? Two Faces of Art Deco on Turkish Popular Magazine Covers (1930-1939)". InfoDesign: Revista Brasileira de Design da Informação. 16 (2): 272. doi:10.51358/id.v16i2.729.

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