Brigitte (magazine)
Biweekly German women's magazine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biweekly German women's magazine From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brigitte is a biweekly women's magazine in Germany[1] which has been in circulation since 1886.
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| Editor | Brigitte Huber |
|---|---|
| Categories | Women's magazine |
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Founded | 1886 |
| Company | Gruner + Jahr |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Hamburg |
| Language | German |
| Website | brigitte |
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]
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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