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28-828: On 14 July 1877, Leopold Ullstein purchased the Neue Berliner Tageblatt newspaper, a subsidiary of the liberal Berliner Tageblatt published by Rudolf Mosse , and on 1 January 1878 converted it into the Berliner Zeitung ( B.Z. ). In 1894 he also acquired the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung weekly, which as technology advanced and permitted heavy use of photographs, became the most successful picture paper in Germany. The B.Z. am Mittag , relaunched in 1904, became Germany's first tabloid newspaper . Ullstein's sons Rudolf, Hans, Louis, Franz and Hermann inherited

56-601: A daily circulation of about 245,000. Prior to the National Socialist administration taking office on 30 January 1933, the newspaper was particularly critical and hostile to their program. On 3 March 1933, after the Reichstag fire , Rudolf Mosse's son-in-law, Hans Lachmann-Mosse , the publisher, dismissed editor in chief Theodor Wolff because of his criticism of the Nazi government and his Jewish ancestry. Wolff by then fled to

84-1006: A dozen crossword magazines, and the tablet magazine C Mode . Other subsidiaries include the film production companies SF Studios and Sonet Film ; daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter , Expressen , Sydsvenskan and Helsingborgs Dagblad ; business daily Dagens Industri ; and medical journal Dagens Medicin . In Denmark, operations include magazine publisher Bonnier Publications, which has subsidiaries in Norway, Finland and Sweden; business daily Dagbladet Børsen ; film distributors SF Film and film producers SF Film Production. Finnish operations include book publishers Tammi and WSOY ; plus magazines from Bonnier Publications and film productions by FS Film. In Germany, Bonnier Media Deutschland includes Ullstein Buchverlage , Piper Verlag , Thienemann Verlag and Carlsen Verlag , among others. In Malta , Bonnier owned Evoke Gaming Ltd. This

112-651: A height of 76 m (249 ft) a " Brick Expressionist " landmark with a bronze sculpture of the "Ullstein Owl" by Fritz Klimsch . Under the Ullstein family, the publishing house became the biggest in Europe. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, the Ullstein brothers were publishing four daily newspapers as well as numerous magazines. In 1934, the Jewish Ullstein family was seized by

140-459: A range of action sport magazines focused on motorcycling, as well as a number of niche travel and lifestyle titles. Book publisher Weldon Owen was also part of the company. In 2013, Bonnier signed a deal with Source Interlink where they bought motorcycle franchises Dirt Rider , Motorcyclist , Sport Rider , Motorcycle Cruiser , Hot Bike , Baggers , Super Streetbike , Street Chopper and ATV Rider , whereas they sold Sound & Vision and

168-779: Is also behind several digital startups, including the tablet publishing platform Mag+ and children's toy app producer, Toca Boca (sold in 2016 to Spin Master ). In 2017, the Bonnier Motorcycle Group bought the AMA EnduroCross Championship , an off-road motorcycling series. The group also promotes the Quail Motorcycle Gathering, HighPipe, Track Day Shootout, Adventure Rally Series and Hot Bike Tour. Also in 2017, Bonnier sold Nordic Cinema Group to AMC Theatres . On 20 July 2018, Telia Company announced

196-580: Is controlled by around 75 family members, including some seventh-generation heirs. Some well-known relatives and descendants of the Bonnier family include: In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group agreed to acquire 18 magazines that Time Inc. was divesting. The estimated price was US$ 225 million in cash and the assumption of about US$ 42 million in unfulfilled subscription liabilities (subscriptions already paid but not yet delivered.) The magazines in

224-566: The Frankfurter Zeitung , it became one of the most important liberal German newspapers of its time. The Berliner Tageblatt was first published by Rudolf Mosse as an advertising paper on 1 January 1872, but developed into a liberal newspaper. On 5 January 1919 the office of the newspaper was briefly occupied by Freikorps soldiers in the German Revolution . By 1920, the BT had achieved

252-503: The BT from Vienna in 1924. As the successor of Leopold Schmidt, Alfred Einstein was the musical critic from September 1927 until August 1933. Starting in 1925, Walter Zadek was a literary editor. Arrested in 1933 and tortured by the Nazis, Zadek then fled to Jerusalem, where he became a well-known photographer. The head of the important Central European Office from 1927 to 1933 was Heinrich Eduard Jacob , based in Vienna. During his time at

280-570: The BT , Jacob had approximately 1,000 contributions. Because he was an opponent of the Austrian Nazis , Jacob was imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp after the Anschluss in 1938. The BT published separate weekly magazines, distributed as part of the newspaper. A number of these, such as "Technische Rundschau," a weekly review of trends in technology, and the "Haus, Hof und Garten" sections (Home and Garden), were edited by Rudolf Jonas. Jonas

308-700: The Nazi authorities and their entire publishing enterprise forcibly " aryanized ", with the business, valued at 60 million marks, sold under duress for 6 million. In 1937, Ullstein Verlag was renamed Deutscher Verlag , affiliated with the Franz Eher Nachfolger publishing house of the Nazi Party and editing the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , as well as Das Reich and the Signal magazine from 1940 until

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336-703: The Tyrol in Austria by plane. After 1933, the National Socialist government took control of the newspaper (the Gleichschaltung ). However, in September 1933, special permission was granted by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to release the paper from any obligation to reprint Nazi propaganda in order to help portray an image of a free German press internationally. Due to this assurance, their respected foreign correspondent Paul Scheffer became editor on 1 April 1934. He had been

364-542: The TransWorld franchise. Bonnier’s publishing in the United Kingdom has two main divisions: Igloo Books and Bonnier Books UK. A number of imprints operate within each division, most notably: Blink, Autumn Publishing, Hot Key Books, John Blake Publishing, Embla, Templar Publishing and Piccadilly Press, Zaffre and Studio Press. In 2015, Bonnier UK acquired commercial fiction publisher Totally Entwined. Weldon Owen UK and US

392-528: The Ullstein Verlag was played down. The newspaper publishing branch was taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1956. ullstein bild , a brand for the photo collection since 1877, is now under Axel Springer Syndication GmbH. In spring 2017, Ullstein launched another imprint: Ullstein Five. The focus is on socially relevant yet accessible stories by German authors. The name is reminiscent of an Ullstein tradition: in

420-632: The elite of German journalism to the Berliner Tageblatt . Ernst Feder and Rudolf Olden ran the domestic politics section, while Josef Schwab, Max Jordan , and Maximilian Müller-Jabusch handled foreign politics. Arthur Norden and Felix Pinner were responsible for the business section. Fred Hildenbrandt headed the feuilleton section from 1922 to 1932. Regular contributors to the feuilleton included Alfred Polgar , Fritz Mauthner , Kurt Tucholsky , Erich Kästner , Robert Walser , Etta Federn , Otto Flake , Felix Hirsch and Frank Thiess . The chief of

448-426: The end of World War II . After the war the publishing house was restored to the Ullstein family, but soon came into financial problems. In 1956 a share of 26% was purchased by Axel Springer , becoming majority shareholder by 1960. Under Springer the remaining West Berlin newspapers Berliner Morgenpost and B.Z. shifted towards a right-wing alignment with a distinct anti-communist stance. The Aryanization of

476-583: The first foreign journalist to be refused a re-entry permit into the Soviet Union in 1929 for his critical reporting on the five-year plan and prophecy of famine in Ukraine . For almost two years, Scheffer surrounded himself by independently minded university graduates such as Margaret Boveri. She wrote in 1960 that Scheffer "was hated from the beginning by leading people of the Propaganda Ministry, and it

504-470: The founding years of the publishing house, each of the five Ullstein brothers contributed according to their talents. Following the example of the five brothers, the program is designed across departments and together with the authors. The Ullstein book-publishing house was sold to Random House in 2003. The sale, which was subject to the agreement of the Bundeskartellamt (German Federal Cartel Office),

532-461: The package employed 550 people and included Outdoor Life , Popular Science , Field & Stream , Ski , Yachting , and Transworld Snowboarding , as well as 11 other titles that were part of Time Inc.'s Time4 Media Group. Also included were Parenting and Babytalk , which were part of the Parenting Group. That price was believed to be a multiple of about 11 times cash flow for

560-542: The proposed acquisition of the Bonnier Broadcasting Group (which owns TV4 AB , MTV Oy and C More Entertainment ) from Bonnier. The acquisition was completed on 2 December 2019. On 6 February 2020, Bonnier Books UK launched literary imprint, Manilla Press. In October 2024, the UK division announced a restructuring with four imprints (Nine Eight, Heligo, John Blake and Black & White London) suspended. Bonnier

588-472: The publishing house and developed it further. They acquired the reputable Vossische Zeitung , a liberal newspaper with a tradition dating back to 1617, while the left-wing Berliner Morgenpost established in 1898 reached a high number of subscribers. From 1927, Ullstein also published Die Grüne Post weekly newspaper under chief editor Ehm Welk . In 1919 the Propyläen Verlag (cf. Propylaea )

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616-471: The theatre section was Alfred Kerr . From 1918 until April 1920, Kurt Tucholsky contributed 50 articles to the Berliner Tageblatt while he was also editor in chief of the satirical magazine Ulk , which appeared weekly between 1913 and 1933. His novel Schloss Gripsholm (set near Gripsholm Castle ) appeared in the BT from 20 March to 26 April 1931. Alfred Eisenstaedt was one of the newspaper's photographers. Erich Everth began corresponding from

644-1165: Was an editor from 1929 to 1932 and later became an editor of the magazine Das Theater . Bonnier Group Bonnier AB ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈbʊ̂nːiːr] ), also the Bonnier Group , is a privately held Swedish media group of 175 companies operating in 15 countries. It is controlled by the Bonnier family . The company was founded in 1804 by Gerhard Bonnier in Copenhagen , Denmark, when Bonnier published his first book, Underfulde og sandfærdige kriminalhistorier . Gerhard's sons later moved to Sweden. The Bonnier book publishing companies in Sweden that are part of book publishing house Bonnierförlagen now include Albert Bonniers förlag , Wahlström & Widstrand , Forum, and Bonnier Carlsen, as well as other book publishers and imprints in Sweden. Bonnier Tidskrifter publishes magazines, including Veckans Affärer , Damernas Värld , Amelia , Sköna hem , Teknikens Värld , Resume , nearly

672-504: Was divested in late 2017. In January 2007, the Bonnier Magazine Group acquired 18 magazines from the American media company Time Inc. (at the time owned by Time Warner ) and merged the operations with other publishing companies to create the U.S. based Bonnier Corporation . As a result, Bonnier Corporation owns over 40 magazines, including Popular Science , Saveur , Field & Stream , Outdoor Life and Popular Photography ,

700-574: Was founded as an imprint for non-fiction books especially on history and art history as well as classical editions, but also for novels like Erich Maria Remarque 's All Quiet on the Western Front first published in 1929. The number of authors working for Ullstein also included Vicki Baum , Thea von Harbou , and Franz Blei . Between 1925 and 1927 the Ullstein Verlag had the new Ullsteinhaus print building erected in Berlin- Tempelhof , with

728-450: Was only approved in part. The Heyne, Südwest and Diana publishing houses became part of Random House, and the remainder of the Ullstein group (Ullstein, Claassen, Econ, List, Marion von Schröder und Propyläen) was sold on to the Bonnier Group . Berliner Tageblatt The Berliner Tageblatt or BT was a German language newspaper published in Berlin from 1872 to 1939. Along with

756-538: Was only because of his excellent foreign connections that he was not relieved of his position in the early years of the regime". Scheffer's position eventually became untenable, and he resigned on 31 December 1936. The paper was finally shut down by the Nazi authorities on 31 January 1939. During the 27 years (1906–1933) when Theodor Wolff was editor in chief, the BT became the most influential newspaper in Berlin. Wolff brought

784-968: Was sold to Insight Editions in 2018. Former operations include Piccolia in France and Five Mile Press in Australia which have both been liquidated. Bonnier Publishing USA was formed in August 2016, then composed of the publisher Weldon Owen and the children's publisher, Little Bee. The president of Little Bee, Shimul Tolia, became the CEO of this group. Bonnier Publishing USA was sold to its management in 2019. Bonnier owns business newspapers in Estonia ( Äripäev ), Lithuania ( Verslo žinios ), Poland ( Puls Biznesu ) and Slovenia ( Finance Business Daily ), as well as medical journals in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Slovenia. Bonnier

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