Hamburger Abendblatt
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 The January 29, 2011 front page of Hamburger Abendblatt | |
| Type | Daily newspaper (except. Sunday) |
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Funke-Mediengruppe |
| Editor-in-chief | Claus Strunz |
| Founded | Hamburg 1948 |
| Language | German |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
| Circulation | 286,992[1] |
| ISSN | 0949-4618 |
| OCLC number | 85355780 |
| Official website | abendblatt.de |
The Hamburger Abendblatt (English: Hamburg Evening Newspaper) is a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, published by Axel Springer AG. It will be sold to the Funke-Mediengruppe effective 1 January 2014. The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with the Hamburger Morgenpost's introduction of a Sunday edition beginning 5 November 2006.
The paper focuses on news in Hamburg and area, and produces regional supplements with news from Norderstedt, Ahrensburg, Harburg, and Pinneberg. Politically the paper is mildly conservative, but usually pro-government, including during SPD administrations.
History
Four previous Hamburg newspapers had the word Abendblatt ("Evening Newspaper") in their title, including one named the Hamburger Abendblatt, founded on 2 May 1820.
This incarnation of the Hamburger Abendblatt, however, was first published after World War II beginning on 14 October 1948, with an initial edition of 60,000 copies. It received a publishing license from the Hamburg Senate and Mayor Max Brauer, making it the first daily paper of post-war Germany to receive a license from German rather than Allied occupation authorities. After about six months of operation, its circulation increased to 170,000 copies daily. Until the 1970s it was delivered in the afternoon, but it is now delivered in the early morning.
References
- ↑ (Quarter 2, 2009) Retrieved from IVW website (German)
- "Hamburger Abendblatt – Wie alles begann . . .41: Die Serie über die Anfänge des Abendblatts" (in German). Hamburger Abendblatt. 2002-11-18. Retrieved 2007-02-10. (The newspaper's own summary of its history.)
- http://www.abendblatt.de/wirtschaft/article118375427/Medienkonzern-Funke-kauft-Hamburger-Abendblatt.html Hamburger Abendblatt, 25 July 2013
External links
- This article incorporates information from the revision as of February 10, 2007 of the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.