Wednesday, September 30, 2015


Die Zeit (German pronunciation, literally "The Time") is a German national weekly newspaper.The first edition of Die Zeit was first published in Hamburg on 21 February 1946. The founding publishers were Gerd Bucerius, Lovis H. Lorenz, Richard Tüngel and Ewald Schmidt di Simoni. Another important founder was Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, who joined as an editor in 1946. She became publisher of Die Zeit from 1972 until her death in 2002, together from 1983 onwards with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, later joined by Josef Joffe and former German federal secretary of culture Michael Naumann. The publishing house, Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius in Hamburg, is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media. The paper is published weekly on Thursdays.

Type Weekly newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Zeit-Verlag Gerd Bucerius GmbH & Co. KG
Editor Giovanni di Lorenzo
Founded 21 February 1946
Political alignment centrist/Liberal
Headquarters Hamburg
Circulation 520,000 (Q1, 2013)
Website www.zeit.de

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