Brigitte (magazine)

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Brigitte
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EditorBrigitte Huber
Categories Women's magazine
FrequencyBiweekly
Founded1886;136 years ago (1886)
Company Gruner + Jahr
CountryGermany
Based in Hamburg
LanguageGerman
Website brigitte.de

Brigitte is a biweekly women's magazine in Germany [1] which has been in circulation since 1886.

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History and profile

The magazine was first published in 1886 under the name Das Blatt der Hausfrau (German: Housewife’s Journal). [2] [3] Its target audience was the middle-class bourgeois housewife and the magazine often covered articles about child-rearing and foods. [2] During World War II it stopped publication. [2]

The magazine was relaunched in 1949 and was renamed as Brigitte in 1954. [2] [4] Brigitte merged with another women's magazine Constanze in 1969. [4]

Brigitte is published every two weeks by Gruner + Jahr. [1] Its headquarters is in Hamburg. [5] The magazine launched its website in April 1997. [6] The target audience of the magazine is both housewives and working women. [7]

Andreas Lebert and Brigitte Huber served as co-editors of Brigitte. [8] Lebert, after serving in the post from 2002 to 2012, left the magazine to become editor-in-chief of Zeit Wissen magazine. [9]

In 2010 the magazine began to employ women who were not professional models. [10]

Circulation

Brigitte had a circulation of 150,000 copies in 1926. [2] It was 940,700 copies in 1999. [11] During the fourth quarter of 2000 its circulation rose to 958,258 copies. [12] In 2001 it was one of top 50 women's magazine worldwide with a circulation of 958,000 copies. [13] In 2004 the magazine had a circulation of 771,281 copies. [14] Its circulation was 693,248 copies in 2010. [15] Brigitte was the best-selling women's magazine in the first quarter of 2018 with a circulation of 389,279 copies. [16]

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  6. ↑ Ulrich Kaiser (February 2002). "The Effects of Website Provision on the Demand for German Women's Magazines". NBER Working Paper (8806). doi: 10.3386/w8806 .
  7. ↑ Katharina M. Dallmann (2001). "Targeting women in German and Japanese magazine advertising: A difference‐in‐differences approach". European Journal of Marketing. 35 (11/12): 1320–1341. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000006478. ISSN   0309-0566.
  8. ↑ BRIGITTE führt Chefredaktionen zusammen Archived 8 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine Birgitte
  9. ↑ Veronika Wehner (15 July 2013). "Lebert becomes editor-in-chief of ZEIT WISSEN". Media Bulletin. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
  10. ↑ "Top German magazine trades models for "real" women". Deutsche Welle . 7 January 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  11. ↑ Ingomar Kloss (2001). "Advertising in Germany". In Ingomar Kloss (ed.). Advertising Worldwide: Advertising Conditions in Selected Countries. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. p. 130. ISBN   978-3-540-67713-0.
  12. ↑ Fiona Jebb (13 April 2001). "Campaign report on Germany". Campaign. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
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