Bild der Frau

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Bild der Frau
Logo Bild der Frau.svg
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Editor-in-chiefSandra Immoor
Categories Women's magazine
FrequencyWeekly
First issue1 March 1983;40 years ago (1983-03-01)
Company Funke Mediengruppe
CountryGermany
Based in Hamburg
LanguageGerman
Website Bild der Frau
ISSN 0949-6874

Bild der Frau (German : Picture of Woman) is a weekly women's magazine published in Hamburg, Germany, that has been in circulation since 1983.

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History and profile

Bild der Frau was established in March 1983. [1] [2] The headquarters of the weekly is in Hamburg. [3] [4] The magazine was part of the Axel Springer Group [5] and was published by Axel Springer SE on a weekly basis. [3] In July 2013 the Axel Springer Group sold it and many other publications to Funke Mediengruppe. [6] [7]

Bild der Frau is a full-color tabloid magazine which features articles related to women. [3] As of 2015 Sandra Immoor was the editor-in-chief of the magazine [8] of which the website was started in 2001. [9]

Circulation

In 1987 Bild der Frau sold 2.5 million copies. [1] During the third quarter of 1992 the magazine had a circulation of 2,094,000 copies. [10] The circulation of the weekly was up to 2,108,309 copies between October and December 1994. [11] In 1999 its circulation was down to 1,977,300 copies. [12]

During the fourth quarter of 2000 the circulation of the weekly was down to 1,662,502 copies. [13] In 2001 it was the eleventh best-selling women's magazine worldwide with a circulation of 1,663,000 copies. [14] The magazine had an average circulation of 1,186,000 copies in 2003. [15] In the fourth quarter of 2006 its circulation was 1,083,300 copies. [15] It rose to 1,478,000 copies for 2006 as a whole. [16]

Bild der Frau sold 1,085,258 copies during the second quarter of 2007. [17] The magazine had a circulation of 1,021,098 copies in 2009, making it the best-selling weekly women magazine in Europe. [18] In 2012 the circulation of the magazine was down to 897,600 copies. [19] During the second quarter of 2016 the magazine had a circulation of 777,050 copies, making it the best-selling women's magazine in the country. [20]

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