Berlin publishing house
| Berlin publishing house
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1945 |
| Seat | Berlin , Germany |
| management | Holger Friedrich |
| Branch | media |
| Website | berlinerverlag.com |
The Berliner Verlag GmbH is a German publishing house , which the couple Silke and Holger Friedrich belongs. He was based in the Berliner Verlag on Alexanderplatz until 2017 and has been based in the Feratti building on Spittelmarkt since then .
history
The Berliner Verlag was founded in 1945 in the eastern part of Berlin as a newspaper and magazine publisher and until 1990 was owned by the SED party company Zentrag .
The publisher specialized in newspapers and magazines from and for Berlin and published the following newspapers and magazines:
- Berliner Zeitung as a daily newspaper
- BZ in the evening as a daily newspaper
- Free world as an entertainment magazine
- Weekly mail as a weekly newspaper
- FF there as a television magazine
- Neue Berliner Illustrierte as an entertainment magazine
- For you as an entertainment magazine (women's magazine)
- horizont as a magazine for foreign policy issues, ideological issues, country information and travel reports
- The box as a literary magazine
The publishing director was Hermann Leupold until his death in 1967 and Rudolf Barbarino until 1983 .
In 1990, after the political change, the publishing house went into a joint venture between Maxwell Communications and Gruner + Jahr . In 1992, Gruner + Jahr took over the publishing house alone and sold it to the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group in 2002 . The Federal Cartel Office prohibited this sale because of a dominant market position, because Holtzbrinck is already publishing the Tagesspiegel in Berlin . That is why the publisher was formally part of Gruner + Jahr until 2005, but Holtzbrinck was de facto responsible.
In October 2005 the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group sold the publishing house to BV Deutsche Zeitungsholding , which belonged to the Mecom Group . The employees of the publishing house protested against the takeover to the end, as job cuts were feared. The sale was approved by the German Federal Cartel Office in November 2005.
On January 12, 2009, the over-indebted Mecom Group sold the publishing house and its other German publishing activities to the Cologne-based media group M. DuMont Schauberg . Since then, the Berliner Verlag has been a subsidiary of the PMB Press and Media House Berlin of M. DuMont Schauberg (65%) and Heinen-Verlag (35%).
At the end of 2015, the DuMont media group took over the shares of the Cologne-based Heinen publishing house in PMB Presse- und Medienhaus Berlin GmbH & Co KG. The Berliner Verlag thus became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DuMont media group. On November 1, 2016, the editorial offices of the Berliner Zeitung and the Berliner Kurier were replaced by Berliner Newsroom GmbH, which is the service provider for the content of the two newspapers.
In September 2019, the sale of the Berlin publishing house to the Berlin entrepreneur couple Silke and Holger Friedrich became known. The Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover on September 30, 2019. On November 1, 2019, Michael Maier became editor of the Berliner Zeitung and chairman of the management of the Berliner Verlag. He resigned from the office of Chairman of the Management Board on July 20, 2020, but remained the editor.
Portfolio
Published by the Berliner Verlag:
- Berliner Zeitung , daily newspaper
- Berliner Kurier , tabloid newspaper
- Berliner Abendblatt , advertising newspaper
- Marco Polo Berliner , magazine
- UNVEU , magazine
- VUE / Berlin , magazine
- Warnow Kurier , advertising newspaper (until 2013)
- tip , city magazine (until 2013)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Verlag moves into Feratti new building and realigns itself berliner-zeitung.de, May 19, 2016
- ↑ a b history dumont-berlin.de
- ↑ by Helma Nehrlich: Berliner, how have you changed. In: M - People Make Media (ver.di). Accessed November 6, 2019 (German).
- ^ NDR: The press in the GDR. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Jasmin Wiedemann: Captured, sold too . Waxmann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-8309-5362-3 ( google.de [accessed on November 6, 2019]).
- ^ Protest against takeover: Berliner Verlag takes to the streets. In: Spiegel Online . October 19, 2005, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ^ Berliner Verlag - Clear the way for Montgomery . manager-magazin.de, November 25, 2005.
- ^ DuMont Schauberg: Verlag buys newspapers from the Mecom group. In: fr-online.de . January 13, 2009, accessed December 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Heinen sells shares in Berliner Verlag and Mopo - DuMont will become sole shareholder meedia.de, January 4, 2016
- ↑ DuMont builds new integrated newsroom in Berlin berliner-zeitung.de, October 27, 2016
- ↑ Entrepreneur couple buys “Berliner Zeitung”. In: FAZ.net. September 17, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ These are the new owners of the Berliner Verlag. In: kress news. September 17, 2019, accessed September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Antitrust authorities approve sale of publishing house with “Berliner Zeitung”. In: handelsblatt.com. October 4, 2019, accessed November 2, 2019 .
- ↑ New tour at the Berliner Verlag. In: tagesspiegel.de. November 1, 2019, accessed November 1, 2019 .
- ↑ After only eight months at the top: Maier hands over the management of the Berlin publishing house. In: kress.de. July 20, 2020, accessed July 20, 2020 .