Weekendavisen

Weekendavisen is a Danish weekly newspaper based in Copenhagen, the nation appears every Friday. With a circulation of about 52,600 copies a week (as of 2nd half of 2010), the newspaper exerts an important function as a forum for social and cultural debate in the country. Politically, it is attributable to the bourgeois camp and pro-European to classify. Out obtainable publisher is the media company Berlingske Media, in the other major Danish newspapers Berlingske as published.

Weekendavisen is a direct successor of the Kjøbenhavnske Danske post Tidender from 1749 and evolved from the later evening paper Berlingske Aftenavis. After 1968, Post Danmark afternoon delivery abschuf, 1971, the newspaper has been set. Only the publication of the weekend edition of the Berlingske Aftenavis has continued and since 1972, the journal published under the title Weekendavisen. His focus was on the early years of background reporting and comments on political and cultural issues. In the late 1980s, the character of the newspaper shifted from a news magazine towards a journalistic profile, which analyzes national and international events. Thus it is intended to appeal to a more educated class who shows an interest in international relations as well as social and cultural issues.

An output of the Weekenavisen is divided into five sections Samfund ( society ), culture, Bøger ( books), Ideer ( innovations in the field of research ) and Faktisk (for children).

Since 1980 is determined annually by the readers of the newspaper who gets awarded the winning 100,000 DKR Weekendavisens litteraturpris. Prior to the editors nominated ten Danish language books that originate both from the technical as well as from the belles-lettres.