The citizens of Berlin Illustrirte newspaper as illustrated weekly newspaper 1892 and 1894 were created were bought by Leopold Ullstein (Ullstein publishing house).

It was the first German mass newspaper. Technical innovations, like the offset low pressure, the line-casting machine or reducing the paper trade in price led to the fact that the BIZ was sold weekly at the price from at that time 10 Pfennig into the citizen of Berlin roads. This was at that time even affordable for workers.

The BIZ placed the newspaper market on the head. The readers were bound no longer over firm of subscription, but by interesting, particularly opening setting on the picture effect. The first and at that time sensationally felt title page of the new type of newspaper decorated the photographic group admission of an officer corps come with a ship misfortune around the life. Since 1902 one was pressure-technically also able to print current photos in the interior of the magazine. In a revolutionary manner, at the time at that time.

For the end of the Weimar Republic the BIZ reached an edition of nearly two million copies.

In the national socialism the BIZ was used "arisiert" and for National Socialist propaganda. In April 1945 their appearance was stopped.

Today the pictorial lives on as supplement of the citizens of Berlin morning mail from Axel Springer publishing house as historical reminiscence. It appears each Sunday.

Literature

• Christian Ferber: Berlin pictorial newspaper. Time picture, chronicle, Moritat for everyone 1892-1945. Berlin, Ullstein publishing house 1982
• Peter de Mendelssohn: Newspaper city Berlin, humans and powers in the history of the German press Berlin, Ullstein, 1959, 2. , over work. and erw. Aufl. Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Vienna: Ullstein: 1982.

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