Der Spiegel

The first edition of was published in Hanover on Saturday, 4 January 1947. Its release was initiated and sponsored by the British occupational administration and preceded by a magazine titled Diese Woche (German: This Week), In 1994, Spiegel Online was launched. In 2007 the magazine started a new regional supplement in Switzerland. A 50-page study of Switzerland, it was the first regional supplement of the magazine. ==Reception==

When Stefan Aust took over in 1994, the magazine's readers realized that his personality was different from his predecessor's. In 2005, a documentary by Stephan Lamby quoted him as follows: "We stand at a very big cannon!"{{Cite news ==Investigative journalism==

has a distinctive reputation for revealing political misconduct and scandals. Online Encyclopædia Britannica emphasizes this quality of the magazine as follows: "The magazine is renowned for its aggressive, vigorous, and well-written exposés of government malpractice and scandals." and in October 2013 with the help of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden unveiled the systematic wiretapping of Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel's private cell phone over a period of over 10 years at the hands of the National Security Agency's Special Collection Service (SCS). According to a 2013 report by The New York Times, the magazine's leading role in German investigative journalism has diminished, since other German media outlets, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bild, ARD and ZDF, have become more involved in investigative reporting. to produce the 'Cyprus Confidential' report on the financial network which supports the regime of Vladimir Putin, mostly with connections to Cyprus, and showed Cyprus to have strong links with high-up figures in the Kremlin, some of whom have been sanctioned. Government officials including Cyprus president Nikos Christodoulides and European lawmakers began responding to the investigation's findings in less than 24 hours, calling for reforms and launching probes. ==Fake news scandals==

has reportedly been involved in controversies over publishing fake news. An apology ensued from for looking for a cliché of a Trump-voting town and not finding it. Former Die Tageszeitung editor Mathias Bröckers wrote: "the imaginative author simply delivered what his superiors demanded and fit into their spin". American journalist James Kirchick claimed in The Atlantic that " has long peddled crude and sensational anti-Americanism." The US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell also wrote a letter to the magazine's editors, saying that Relotius's journalism showed an anti-American bias. He also expressed shock at how Der Spiegel allowed "anti-American coverage." People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran In 2019, the Hamburg state court ordered Der Spiegel to remove unsupported claims from an article that accused the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) of "torture" and "psychoterror." 2022 fake news about refugee death at the Greece–Turkey borders In the summer of 2022, Der Spiegel published three articles and a podcast regarding the death of a refugee girl named "Maria" on an islet in the Evros river at the Greece–Turkey borders, accusing Greece of failing to aid the refugees, which caused the girl's death. But at the end of December 2022, the magazine retracted the articles and the podcast. Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported that the story had been fabricated. In 2023, the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) wrote that this story was "one of the largest fake news breakdowns since Claas Relotius." ==Bans==

In January 1978, the office of in East Berlin was closed by the East German government following the publication of critical articles against the conditions in the country. A special 25 March 2008 edition of the magazine on Islam was banned in Egypt in April 2008 for publishing material deemed by authorities to be insulting Islam and Muhammed. ==Head office==

began moving into its current head office in HafenCity in September 2011. The facility was designed by Henning Larsen Architects of Denmark. The magazine's offices were previously in a high-rise building with of office space. ==Editors-in-chief==

• 1962–1968: Claus Jacobi • 1968–1973: Günter Gaus • 1973–1986: Erich Böhme and • 1986–1989: Erich Böhme and Werner Funk • 1989–1994: and • 1994–2008: Stefan Aust • 2008–2011: and • 2011–2013: Georg Mascolo • 2013–2014: Wolfgang Büchner{{cite news|title=New Der Spiegel Editor will Also Oversee Web Business • 13 January 2015 – 15 October 2018: • 1 January 2019: Steffen Klusmann and • 25 May 2023: Dirk Kurbjuweit ==See also==