Die Woche

Die Woche ([dɪ ˈvɔxə], "The Week") was an illustrated weekly newspaper published in Berlin from 1899 to 1944. It reported on popular entertainment, including "sensationalist crime stories", and covered celebrities in sports and show business.[1] Its publisher was newspaper magnate August Scherl,[2] who also owned the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, a Berlin paper.[3]

Die Woche
Front page of issue 20, 1914.
Typeillustrated weekly newspaper
PublisherAugust Scherl Verlag
Founded1899
LanguageGerman
Ceased publication1944
HeadquartersBerlin

By 1916 Scherl had been bought up by the (politically conservative) Hugenberg Press, and came to play a part in the politics of the day, specifically in promoting an image of Paul von Hindenburg as both a military man and a civilian, thus aiding his appeal across the German population.[1]

The German ambassador in Tehran, 1913, from Die Woche

References
  1. Goltz, Anna von der (2009). Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis. Oxford UP. pp. 150–53. ISBN 9780191610042.
  2. Wilke, Jürgen (2002). Unter Druck gesetzt: vier Kapitel deutscher Pressegeschichte. Köln/Weimar: Böhlau. p. 33. ISBN 9783412170011.
  3. Welch, David (2000). Germany, Propaganda and Total War, 1914-1918: The Sins of Omission. Rutgers UP. p. 49. ISBN 9780813527987.
  • Ralf Dahrendorf: Liberal und unabhängig. Gerd Bucerius und seine Zeit. 2nd edition. Beck, München 2000, ISBN 3-406-46474-2
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