Publishing house in Frankfurt am Main

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is an influential high-quality national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The FAZ has a circulation of over 380,000. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1329 KB) w:en:Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Verlagsgebäude/Publishing house, Hellerhofstr. ... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 1329 KB) w:en:Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Verlagsgebäude/Publishing house, Hellerhofstr. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ...

The FAZ has the legal form of a GmbH. The independent FAZIT-Stiftung (FAZIT Foundation) is its majority shareholder, and the paper itself does not depend on any political party or organisation. The FAZ runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by five editors. It has a daily readership of over one million and is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming to deliver the newspaper to 148 countries every day. Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH) is a type of business structure in Germany, similar to limited liability company in the United States. ...

History

The first edition of the FAZ appeared on November 1, 1949; its founding editor was Erich Welter. Some editors had worked for the Frankfurter Zeitung, which was banned in 1943. Jump to: navigation, search November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 60 days remaining. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Frankfurter Zeitung is a German newspaper that appeared from 1856 to 1943. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Traditionally, no photographs appear on the title page of the FAZ. Some of the rare exceptions were a picture of the celebrating people in front of the Reichstag in Berlin on the German Unity Day on 4 October 1990, and the two pictures in the edition of 12 September 2001 showing the collapsing World Trade Center and the American president George W. Bush. The Reichstag building (April 2004) The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the place where the Reichstag, the parliament of the German Empire, would convene. ... Berlin ( ♫), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; down from 4. ... The Day of German Unity (Tag der Deutschen Einheit), October 3, is a national holiday in Germany celebrating the countrys reunification in 1990. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... This article is about the World Trade Center complex in New York City; see this article for the many other buildings around the world that have also been called world trade centers. The World Trade Center in New York City was a complex of seven buildings designed by American architect... The President of the United States (often abbreviated POTUS) is the head of state of the United States. ... Jump to: navigation, search George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former Governor of the State of Texas. ...

Currently the FAZ is produced electronically. For its characteristic comment headings, a digital Fraktur font was ordered. After introducing on August 1, 1999, the new spelling prescribed by the German spelling reform of 1996, the FAZ returned exactly one year later to the old spelling, declaring that their experience had shown that the reform was ambiguous and partly nonsensical. Due to its traditionally sober layout, the introduction of colour photographs in the FAZ was controversially discussed by the readers. The German word Fraktur (pronounced in IPA) refers to a specific blackletter typeface. ... August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... The German spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) was an international agreement signed in 1996 by the governments of the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland, concerning the reform of German spelling. ...

Profile

A major goal of the FAZ is to make its readers think. The truth is sacred to the FAZ, so special care is taken to clearly separate facts from comments. Its political orientation is liberally conservative (as far as such description still makes sense today), but it is not afraid of providing a forum to commentators with different views. In particular the feuilleton and some sections of the Sunday edition can not be said to be specifically conservative or liberal at all. The letters to the editors receive a lot of attention. Its well-grounded articles about law are unofficially considered as compulsory reading among law students.

Famous contributors

• Marcel Reich-Ranicki
• Florian Illies
• Patrick Bahners
• Andreas Platthaus
• Volker Reiche (see Strizz)
• Greser&Lenz
• Karl Feldmeier
• Georg Paul Hefty
• Hans Dietmar Barbier
• Karl Friedrich Fromme (former editor)

Marcel Reich-Ranicki (born 2 June 1920, at Włocławek, Poland) is a famous German literary critic, and a member of the literary group Gruppe 47. ...

External links

• The FAZ online edition (in German; only selected articles are free)
• Explanation for the return to the pre-reform spelling (in German)
• Ketupa.net - Frankfurter Zeitung and FAZ media profile