During 2014, the average circulation ofDie Welt was approximately 180,000.[6] The paper may be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear inBerlin and Hamburg. A daily regional supplement also appears inBremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with theBerliner Morgenpost.
From 2004 to 2019, the newspaper also published acompact edition entitledWelt Kompakt, a 32-page cut-down version of the mainbroadsheet targeted to a younger public. The paper does not appear on Sundays, but the linked publicationWelt am Sonntag takes its place.
Die Welt was founded inHamburg in 1946[8] by the British occupying forces, aiming to provide a "quality newspaper" modeled onThe Times. It originally carried news and British-viewpoint editorial content, but from 1947 it adopted a policy of providing two leading articles on major questions, one British and one German. The newspaper was bought by Axel Springer in 1953.
The 1993 circulation of the paper was 209,677 copies.[9] At its peak in the occupation period, it had a circulation of approximately a million.[10]
In 2002 the paper experimented with aBavarian edition.
In November 2010, a redesign for the newspaper was launched, featuring a new logo with a dark blue globe, a reduced number of columns from seven to six, and typography based on the Freight typeface designed byJoshua Darden.Welt Kompakt was also redesigned to use that typeface.[11][12]
On 2 May 2014, the Swiss German business magazineBILANZ began to be published as a monthly supplement ofDie Welt.[13][14]
On 18 January 2018, the German television channel N24 changed its name toWelt.[15]
From 1999 to 2019, theDie Welt book supplementDie Literarische Welt ("The Literary World") presented an annual€10,000 literature prize available to international authors.[18] The award is in honor of Willy Haas who foundedDie Literarische Welt in 1925.
Die Welt has repeatedly been criticized for publishingclimate-sceptic articles. A study published in 2017 that examined the publications of various newspapers over a period of one year from June 2012 to May 2013, found that 43% of articles included in the sample for the publication were climate-sceptical, having the highest climate-sceptical value of all German newspapers.[38]
Liz Fekete criticized the newspaper in 2024 for uncritically adopting Israel's talking points on theMiddle East conflict, to the disadvantage ofPalestinians, and spreading false information about the prevalence of antisemitism among immigrants.[40]
In December 2024, opinion department chief Eva Marie Kogel leftDie Welt protesting the publication of anop-ed byElon Musk that supportsAfD.[41][42][43]
^abHeimy Taylor, Werner Haas, ed. (2007).German: A Self-Teaching Guide. John Wiley & Sons. p. 243.ISBN9780470165515.... They represent different political opinions—for instance, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (liberal), the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (conservative-liberal), or Die Welt (conservative). Add to that (literally: to that, come) political ...
^Keith Gilbert; Otto J. Schantz; Otto Schantz, eds. (2008).The Paralympic Games: Empowerment Or Side Show?. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. p. 41.ISBN9781841262659.Le Figaro as well as the German Die Welt have a liberal conservative tradition and represent right-of- center goals.
