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Stern (English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
"Star") is a weekly news magazine published in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
. It was founded in 1948 by Henri Nannen

Henri Nannen

Henri Nannen was a famous Germany journalist.His father was a police officer in Emden. After a one-year book dealer apprenticeship he studied the history of art at the University of Munich....
, and is currently published by Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Baumwall, Hamburg, Germany....
, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann AG is a transnational mass media corporation founded in 1835, based in G?tersloh, Germany. The company operates in 63 countries and employs 102,397 workers ....
. In the first quarter of 2006, its print run was 1.019 million copies and it reached 7.84 million readers according to .

Internationally, it is most famous for publishing the Hitler diaries

Hitler Diaries

File:sterncover.jpgIn April 1983, the Germany news magazine Stern published extracts from what purported to be the diary of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries , which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries....
in 1983.

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Stern (English

English language

Germany

Henri Nannen

Gruner + Jahr

Gruner + Jahr GmbH & Co. KG is the largest European printing and publishing firm. Its headquarters is in Baumwall, Hamburg, Germany....
, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann

Hitler Diaries

Forgery

Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents , with the intent to deception. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery....
. This led to the resignation of the magazine's editors and a major scandal

Scandal

A scandal is a widely publicized incident that involves allegations of Malfeasance in office, disgrace, or Morality outrage. A scandal may be based on reality, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both....
that is still seen as a low point in German journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and editorial via a widening spectrum of Media . These include newspapers, magazines, radio and television, the internet and, more recently, the cellphone....
. The incident caused a major crisis for the magazine. Its credibility was severely damaged and it had to rebuild reputation from an abysmal level.

In Germany, it is mostly remembered for the publication of "We had an abortion!" in 1971, initiated by Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer

Alice Schwarzer is the most prominent contemporary Germany feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German language feminist journal EMMA ....
. 374 women publicly declared that they had an abortion

Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
in spite of its illegality at the time in West Germany.

History

Nannen created the magazine out of the youth paper Zick Zack, and the first issue appeared on 1 August 1948. This was possible after obtaining a licence from the British military government to rename Zick-Zack to Stern, for which Nannen had taken over the licence a few months before. The first issue had 16 pages, with the cover showing actress Hildegard Knef

Hildegard Knef

Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff....
.

In 1950, after publishing an article about the waste of money by the Allies, the British administration banned the magazine for one week. In 1951 Nannen sold his holding in the paper to Gruner + Jahr. In 1968, Stern and Die Zeit
Die Zeit

Die Zeit is a Germany nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism. With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper....
began publishing the Stern-Zeit bi-weekly paper for the blind, which stopped publication in mid 2007 due to financial problems.

In 1990 Stern published the title story "I am a masochist", in which author Sina-Aline Geißler discussed her literary coming-out as a member of the BDSM

BDSM

BDSM is a complex acronym derived from the terms Bondage and Discipline , Dominance and submission , Sadomasochism and masochism . BDSM includes a wide spectrum of activities and forms of interpersonal relationships....
scene. This caused an intense public debate, and radical feminists occupied the editorial office of Stern.

Stern has lost four journalists killed while reporting. In January 1995, Jochen Piest

Jochen Piest

Jochen Piest was a correspondent for the Germany newsmagazine Stern.On January 10, 1995, Piest was killed in a suicide attack by a Chechen people rebel against a Russian mine-clearing unit in the village of Chervlyonna, about 24 kilometers northeast of the Chechen Capital , Grozny....
was killed by a sniper near the Chechen capital of Grozny

Grozny

Grozny is the capital types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Chechnya in Russia. The city lies on the Sunzha River. According to the 2002 Russian Census , the city had a population of 210,720 people ....
. Gabriel Grüner and Volker Krämer were killed near Dulje, Kosovo

Kosovo

Kosovo is a disputed region in the Balkans. Its majority is governed by the partially-recognised Republic of Kosovo . Serbia does not recognise the secession of Kosovo and considers it a United Nations-governed entity within its sovereign territory, the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija that was re-created by Slobodan M...
. November 2001 saw the death of Volker Handloik

Volker Handloik

Volker Handloik was a German freelance journalist and reporter. Born in Rostock, Germany, he worked for the Hamburg-based Stern for 10 years and also did some correspondence for newspapers, journals, and magazines such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, S?ddeutsche Zeitung, die tageszeitung, Berliner Zeitung, National Geographic, Stern...
in an ambush in northern Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country that is located approximately in the center of Asia....
.

Political direction

Stern is considered to be libertarian-critical, partially left-libertarian. However, it also publishes views and authors with economically-libertarian, conservative and left-wing positions.

External links

, Interview With Katja Gloger of Stern