Brigitte

Brigitte is a biweekly women's magazine in Germany which has been in circulation since 1886. History and profile The magazine was first published in 1886 under the name Das Blatt der Hausfrau (German: Housewife’s Journal). Its target audience was the middle-class bourgeois housewife and the magazine often covered articles about child-rearing and foods. During World War II it stopped publication. The magazine was relaunched in 1949 and was renamed as Brigitte in 1954. Brigitte merged with another women's magazine Constanze in 1969. Brigitte is published every two weeks by Gruner + Jahr. Its headquarters is in Hamburg. The magazine launched its website in April 1997. The target audience of the magazine is both housewives and working women.