Hamburger Abendblatt
{{Short description|German newspaper in Hamburg}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Hamburger Abendblatt
| logo = Hamburger Abendblatt Logo.svg
| image = Hamburger Abendblatt front page.png
| image_border = yes
| caption = The 29 January 2011 front page of Hamburger Abendblatt
| type = Daily newspaper (except Sunday)
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Funke Mediengruppe
| publisher =
| staff =
| chiefeditor = Claus Strunz
| foundation = {{start date and age|1948}}
| language = German
| headquarters = Hamburg, Germany
| circulation = 286,992 (Quarter 2, 2009)
| ISSN = 0949-4618
| oclc = 85355780
| website = {{URL|https://www.abendblatt.de/}}
}}
Hamburger Abendblatt ({{Lit|Hamburg Evening Newspaper}}) is a German daily newspaper in Hamburg belonging to the Funke Mediengruppe, publishing Monday to Saturday.
The paper focuses on news in Hamburg and its surrounds, and produces regional supplements with news from Norderstedt, Harburg, and Pinneberg.
Its authors have won journalistic prizes including the Theodor Wolff Prize (Jan Haarmeyer, Barbara Hardinghaus, Miriam Opresnik, Özlem Topçu), the Wächterpreis der Tagespresse (Christian Denso, Marion Girke, and the {{ill|Deutscher Reporter:innenpreis|de}} (German Reporter Prize) (Volker ter Haseborg, Antje Windmann). The paper was also awarded the {{ill|Deutscher Lokaljournalistenpreis|de}} six times since 2004 by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.{{Cite web|title=Deutscher Lokaljournalistenpreis |url=https://www.kas.de/de/deutscher-lokaljournalistenpreis|date=18 March 2021|access-date=20 January 2024 |website=KAS|language=de}}
History and profile
Four previous Hamburg newspapers had the word Abendblatt ({{Lit|Evening Newspaper}}) in their title, including Hamburger Abendblatt founded on 2 May 1820. However, the incarnation of Hamburger Abendblatt, was first published after World War II on 14 October 1948 with an initial edition of 60,000 copies.{{Cite web|first=Hans-Jürgen|last=Fink|title=Hamburger Abendblatt – Wie alles begann... 41: Die Serie über die Anfänge des Abendblatts|trans-title=Hamburger Abendblatt – How it all began... 41: The series about the beginnings of the Abendblatt|url=https://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2002/10/18/82674.html|newspaper=Hamburger Abendblatt|date=18 October 2002|access-date=10 February 2007|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928001951/https://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2002/10/18/82674.html/|archive-date=28 September 2007}} The paper received a publishing license from the Hamburg Senate and Mayor Max Brauer, making it the first daily paper of post-war Germany to receive a license from German rather than Allied occupation authorities. After about six months of operation, its circulation increased to 170,000 copies daily.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}
From 1948 through 2013, Hamburger Abendblatt was published by Axel Springer AG.{{Cite journal|first=Stefan|last=Schultz|title=Sell-Off: Newspaper Giant Turns Back on Journalism|journal=Der Spiegel|date=26 July 2013|url=https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/axel-springer-sells-off-clutch-of-newspapers-and-magazines-a-913296.html|access-date=16 December 2014}} The paper is published by Funke Mediengruppe, who purchased it from Axel Springer effective 1 January 2014. The paper used to appear Monday through Saturday only, but since 29 October 2006 it has also published a Sunday edition to compete with the Hamburger Morgenpost
Circulation
Hamburger Abendblatt had a circulation of 288,000 copies in 2001.{{Cite news|first=Adam|last=Smith|title=Europe's Top Papers|url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/164161/|website=Campaign Live|date=15 November 2002|access-date=18 April 2015}} The circulation of the paper was 252,533 copies in the first quarter of 2006.{{cite web|title=European Publishing Monitor|url=http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|website=Turku School of Economics (Media Group)|access-date=27 March 2015|format=Report|date=March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010103816/http://edz.bib.uni-mannheim.de/daten/edz-du/gda/07/med-ind-germany_en.pdf|archive-date=10 October 2017|url-status=dead}} It rose to 286,992 copies in the second quarter of 2009.{{Cite web|title=IVW website|url=http://www.ivw.eu/index.php|url-status=dead|website=IVW|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606113317/http://www.ivw.eu/index.php|archive-date=6 June 2017}}
Editors-in-chief
- {{ill|Wilhelm Schulze (journalist)|lt=Wilhelm Schulze|de|Wilhelm Schulze (Journalist)}}, 1948–1952
- {{ill|Otto Siemer|de}}, 1952–1965
- {{ill|Martin Saller|de|Martin Saller (Journalist)}}, 1965–1969
- {{ill|Werner Titzrath|de}}, 1969–1983
- {{ill|Klaus Korn|de|Klaus Korn (Journalist)}}, 1983–1989
- {{ill|Peter Kruse (journalist)|lt=Peter Kruse|de| Peter Kruse (Journalist)}}, 1989–2001
- {{ill|Menso Heyl|de}}, 2001–2008
- Claus Strunz, 2008 until June 2011
- {{ill|Lars Haider|de}}, since July 2011
References
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External links
- {{Official website}} {{In lang|de}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:1948 establishments in Germany
Category:Daily newspapers published in Germany
Category:German-language newspapers
Category:Newspapers published in Hamburg