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| Editor | Brigitte Huber |
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| Categories | Women's magazine |
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Founded | 1886; 139 years ago (1886) |
| Company | Gruner + Jahr |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Hamburg |
| Language | German |
| Website | www |
Brigitte is a biweeklywomen's magazine in Germany[1] which has been in circulation since 1886.
The magazine was first published in 1886 under the nameDas Blatt der Hausfrau (German:Housewife’s Journal).[2][3] Its target audience was themiddle-classbourgeois housewife and the magazine often covered articles aboutchild-rearing and foods.[2] DuringWorld War II it stopped publication.[2]
The magazine was relaunched in 1949 and was renamed asBrigitte in 1954.[2][4]Brigitte merged with another women's magazineConstanze in 1969.[4]
Brigitte is published every two weeks byGruner + 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 andBrigitte Huber served as co-editors ofBrigitte.[8] Lebert, after serving in the post from 2002 to 2012, left the magazine to becomeeditor-in-chief ofZeit 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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