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Welt am Sonntag

German Sunday newspaper

Summary

German Sunday newspaper

Field	Value
name	Welt am Sonntag
logo	WELT AM SONNTAG LOGO 2015.svg
logo_size	200px
image	[[File:Welt am Sonntag front page.jpg	170px	border]]
caption	Sample front page of Welt am Sonntag
type	Sunday newspaper
format	Broadsheet
founded
political_position	Conservative
owners	Axel Springer SE
chief_editor	Dagmar Rosenfeld
editor
publisher	Stefan Aust
headquarters	Berlin, Germany
website	welt.de

Welt am Sonntag (, ) is a German Sunday newspaper published in Germany.

History and profile

Welt am Sonntag was established in 1948. The paper is published by Axel Springer SE. Its head office is in Berlin. It has local editions for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and Düsseldorf.

It is the Sunday edition of the daily Die Welt. It includes sections on politics, sport, economics, finance, culture, style, travel, and real estate.

In 2009, Welt am Sonntag was recognized as one of the "World’s Best-Designed Newspapers" by the Society for News Design, along with four other newspapers. In 2012, the paper was named European Newspaper of the Year in the category of nationwide newspapers. In 2013, Welt am Sonntag won the same award, but this time in the category of weekly newspapers.

During the second quarter of 1992, Welt am Sonntag had a circulation of 420,000 copies. Its circulation was 381,000 copies in 1997, and 532,000 in 2014.

Editor-in-chief terms

1948–1968: Bernhard Menne
1975–1976: Hans Bluhm
1976–1988: Claus Jacobi
1979–1994: Manfred Geist
1995–1996: Günter Böddeker
1998–2001: Kai Diekmann
2001–2003: Thomas Garms
2004–2008: Christoph Keese
2008–2010: Thomas Schmid
2010–2015: Jan-Eric Peters
2016–2017: Stefan Aust
2017–2019: Peter Huth
2019–2021: Johannes Boie
2022-2024: Dagmar Rosenfeld

Notable editor terms

2004–2008: Alan Posener

References

Steve Dorsey. (18 February 2009). "SND30: Five papers named World's Best-Designed – The Society for News Design". SND.
(2013). "14th European Newspaper Award". Editorial Design.
(15 November 2013). "15th European Newspaper Award". Adnative.
Georg Hellack. (1992). "Press, Radio and Television in the Federal Republic of Germany". Inter Nationes.
Frank Esser. (September 1999). "'Tabloidization' of News". [[European Journal of Communication]].
"Welt am Sonntag".
(28 December 2024). "Elon Musk pens German newspaper opinion piece supporting far-right AfD party".
"German chancellor candidate Merz slams Musk over AfD stance – DW – 12/29/2024".

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