Brigitte (magazine)

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

Brigitte

Editor	Brigitte Huber
Categories	Women's magazine
Frequency	Biweekly
Founded	1886; 139 years ago (1886)
Company	Gruner + Jahr
Country	Germany
Based in	Hamburg
Language	German
Website	brigitte.de

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]

See also

• List of magazines in Germany