Have a nice greeting to Tessa - she has scolded me so that I did not make any more new episode that I have now taken one!

Anna lives in Berlin and would like to read a newspaper. She asked me what German newspapers are available on the market. Of course I can not imagine you all the newspapers, but I hope that I can name the most important and their differences.

First, there is a difference between the German language newspapers and magazines. A magazine is a magazine that is a small, colorful booklet. Usually it appears only one time per week or per month. A newspaper is much larger and can also appear daily.

I speak only once on the newspapers. Since there is a difference: There are regional and national newspapers. Regional newspapers are published in a small area, they speak mainly about this area. So for example there is the Göttingen daily paper or the Berliner Morgenpost. In these papers you can read lots of information about Göttingen and Berlin. This is for people who live there, very interesting. For me, however, that brings little in Munich. There is also the majority of these newspapers in the region to buy.

I'm interested in national newspapers such as newspapers, which are many news from around the world. These newspapers are there in Germany to buy. People buy newspapers either at the kiosk or in the supermarket, or gas stations. And there are silent salesmen, newspaper vending So, as I said in Episode 13 was declared.

The best-known national newspaper in Germany, the image -Zeitung. She is a tabloid newspaper. In the English room is called the Yellow Press. It does not cost much, is thin and quickly scrolled through on the way to work. It is the Bild newspaper since 1952 and it is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Europe. 3.3 million copies are printed of her every day. Often it is about celebrity scandals, or the like. In the same publisher, the famous Axel-Springer-Verlag, the world .

More levels, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung . It is produced and exists in Munich since 1945. Each paper is divided into several departments, including the bedrooms. There's the news, the sports section, the features section, so the culture, a service section with information on cultural events and the like and of course
the business section with current market prices. The Süddeutsche Zeitung is regarded as politically left-liberal and critical.

Very famous is also the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , whose reporting is rather conservative. Especially, however, is the taz from Berlin. The acronym stands for taz "newspaper". From it only about 50,000 copies are printed. It is slightly smaller than other newspapers and is regarded as politically left-alternative.

As for the magazines, so the magazines, there are mainly three that play a role in Germany. The Mirror is published every Monday. It was founded in 1947. Its journalists are highly regarded, and the focus of politics, business and science research are well founded. The star is somewhat brighter, here it is often enhanced with photo galleries or less controversial and intellectual issues. Relatively new has been added to the 1993 Focus . He should be a competitor to the mirror and is much more conservative. Still read German the mirror as the focus.

So, those were of course not all German newspapers. It is also the Frankfurter Rundschau and the very good, once a week on Thursday published " Time ", which I highly recommend. But I think you get a good overview. Incidentally, there are big cities again own regional newspapers, as previously indicated. In Munich, for example, it is the tz, the evening paper and the Münchner Merkur. Every newspaper has its own orientation, and therefore can be estimated at each of the readers about what they have political or social orientation.

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Have a nice greeting to Tessa - she has scolded me so that I did not make any more new episode that I have now taken one! Anna lives in Berlin and would like to read a newspaper. She asked me what German newspapers are available on the market. Of course I can not imagine you all the newspapers ...