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 The 29 January 2011 front page ofHamburger Abendblatt | |
| Type | Daily newspaper (except Sunday) |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | Funke Mediengruppe |
| Editor-in-chief | Claus Strunz |
| Founded | 1948; 78 years ago (1948) |
| Language | German |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
| Circulation | 286,992 (Quarter 2, 2009) |
| ISSN | 0949-4618 |
| OCLC number | 85355780 |
| Website | www |
Hamburger Abendblatt (lit. 'Hamburg Evening Newspaper') is a German daily newspaper inHamburg belonging to theFunke Mediengruppe, publishing Monday to Saturday.
The paper focuses on news in Hamburg and its surrounds, and produces regional supplements with news fromNorderstedt,Harburg, andPinneberg.
Its authors have won journalistic prizes including theTheodor Wolff Prize (Jan Haarmeyer, Barbara Hardinghaus, Miriam Opresnik, Özlem Topçu), theWächterpreis der Tagespresse (Christian Denso, Marion Girke, and theDeutscher Reporter:innenpreis [de] (German Reporter Prize) (Volker ter Haseborg, Antje Windmann). The paper was also awarded theDeutscher Lokaljournalistenpreis [de] six times since 2004 by theKonrad Adenauer Foundation.[1]
Four previous Hamburg newspapers had the wordAbendblatt (lit. 'Evening Newspaper') in their title, includingHamburger Abendblatt founded on 2 May 1820. However, the incarnation ofHamburger Abendblatt, was first published afterWorld War II on 14 October 1948 with an initial edition of 60,000 copies.[2] The paper received a publishing license from theHamburg Senate and MayorMax Brauer, making it the first daily paper of post-war Germany to receive a license from German rather thanAllied occupation authorities. After about six months of operation, its circulation increased to 170,000 copies daily.[citation needed]
From 1948 through 2013,Hamburger Abendblatt was published byAxel Springer AG.[3] The paper is published byFunke Mediengruppe, which purchased it from Axel Springer effective 1 January 2014.[3] The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with theHamburger Morgenpost's introduction of a Sunday edition on 5 November 2006.
Hamburger Abendblatt had a circulation of 288,000 copies in 2001.[4] The circulation of the paper was 252,533 copies in the first quarter of 2006.[5] It rose to 286,992 copies in the second quarter of 2009.[6]
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