About Bremer

Bremer

BREMER — "Das Stadtmagazin für Bremen und den Norden" — is the city magazine for Bremen and northern Germany, published at bremer.de. "Weil wir wissen, was Heimat ist" (because we know what home is): the portal delivers the current news, topics, and tips for Bremen and surroundings — the events, the culture, the gastronomy, the lifestyle, and the interviews. The related print title STADTMAGAZIN Bremen — published by the Magazinverlag Bremen GmbH within the WESER-KURIER Mediengruppe — has appeared since May 2016 with a circulation of 65,000 copies, ranking among Germany's highest-circulation city magazines. Together, the print monthly and the digital BREMER form the Hanseatic city's magazine brand: the Bremen stories in print and online.

Overview

The city magazine is the urban region's companion: the event calendar, the cultural journalism, and the lifestyle coverage for the people who live there. BREMER addresses the Bremen region's readers with the digital city magazine's program: the news — from the carsharing growth to the comedy club — the events — the concerts, the theater, the festivals — the culture — the music interviews, the literature, the exhibitions — the food and drink — the restaurants, the cafés, the regional specialties — and the lifestyle — the fashion, the leisure, and the local trends. The "Moin Bremen" news section, the event calendar, and the interview formats structure the portal.

The print STADTMAGAZIN Bremen — the monthly free magazine distributed to selected households with the WESER-KURIER and at over 2,000 display points across the city and surroundings — reaches the 65,000-copy circulation: the free city magazine's household distribution as the reach engine. The sections — the title story, the concerts, the exhibitions, the "Was macht..." (what's... doing) portraits, the columns, and the event tips — structure the monthly reading. The digital BREMER extends the brand into the daily: the current news and the event updates between the print issues.

History

The STADTMAGAZIN Bremen appeared in May 2016 — the WESER-KURIER Mediengruppe's city-magazine project, published by the Magazinverlag Bremen GmbH at Martinistraße 43, 28195 Bremen. The 100th-issue interview — the editorial team's rare self-portrait — deserves its institutional telling. "Im Mai 2016 erschien das erste STADTMAGAZIN Bremen. Und nun ist tatsächlich die 100. Ausgabe erschienen" — the eight-year, hundred-issue run celebrated by the normally background-working core team. The circulation claim — "mit einer Auflage von 65.000 Exemplaren zu den auflagenstärksten Stadtmagazinen in Deutschland" — positions the title nationally: the remarkable print run in today's print market, for Bremen remarkable. The distribution — "Dank unseres Partners, der Bremer Tageszeitungen AG, wird das Magazin mit dem WESER-KURIER zum großen Teil in der Stadt direkt in die Haushalte verteilt" — names the reach engine: the daily newspaper's household distribution carrying the free monthly. The future plans — "Never change a running system," the digitalization step, the brand strengthening, and the broader magazine portfolio — show the publisher's steady course: the evolution without the revolution. The sister titles — BREMER SPORT, WESERGOLF, the HEMELINGEN district magazine — extend the house into the sport, the golf, and the neighborhoods. The publisher's portfolio grew around the flagship: BREMER SPORT, WESERGOLF, and the HEMELINGEN district magazine — the Magazinverlag Bremen GmbH as the city's magazine house.

The digital BREMER at bremer.de — the portal's records dating to 2019, updated through June 2026 — extended the brand online: the daily news, the event calendar, and the interviews for Bremen and the north. The development followed the city magazine's digital turn: the print monthly's household distribution complemented by the portal's continuous flow. The editorial team — Martin Märtens (V.i.S.d.P.), Kristina Wiede, Jennifer Fahrenholz, and the authors — produces the Bremen journalism: the title stories, the concert and exhibition coverage, and the people portraits.

Coverage and Content

The portal's daily program follows the region's agenda. The news covers the city: the mobility developments (the cambio carsharing's growth to 32,254 users), the event announcements, and the city life. The events calendar lists the concerts, the comedy, the theater — from the Seebühne's "Jedermann" to the Uni Nacht open-air to the Bremen Vier Comedy Club. The culture section presents the interviews: the Yamato drummers, the authors, the musicians — and the literature, the exhibitions, and the film. The food-and-drink section covers the gastronomy: the new restaurants like Viet Soul, the cafés like YupYup, the regional events like the Vegesacker Matjestage. The lifestyle section treats the fashion and leisure: the Bremer Laufsteg, the Woman fair, the outdoor activities.

The print monthly's program — the title story, the concerts, the exhibitions, the "Was macht..." portraits (like the "Melitta-Mann" Egon Wellenbrink), the columns, and the event tips — gives the curated monthly reading. The BREMER Verlosungen (raffles) engage the readers: the ticket giveaways for the region's events. The "Made in Bremen" content — the local products, the rum tasting, the city guides — celebrates the Hanseatic local patriotism.

Organization and Ownership

The STADTMAGAZIN Bremen is published by the Magazinverlag Bremen GmbH within the WESER-KURIER Mediengruppe, Martinistraße 43, 28195 Bremen. The editor (V.i.S.d.P.) is Martin Märtens; the editorial team includes Kristina Wiede and Jennifer Fahrenholz; the authors include Werner Schwarz, Dirk Böhling, Matthias Höllings, and Temi Tesfay; the design: B.O. Beckmann. The WESER-KURIER Mediengruppe backing gives the city magazine its publishing weight. The Bremen daily-newspaper group — the Bremer Tageszeitungen AG with the WESER-KURIER — operates the Magazinverlag Bremen GmbH as its magazine arm: the daily's household distribution carrying the monthly, the media group's advertisers buying the combined print reach, the newsroom's city knowledge feeding the magazine. The model — the newspaper group publishing the free city magazine — is the German regional press's diversification: the daily's readers receiving the monthly's leisure content, the magazine's advertisers reaching the newspaper's households. The 91,000-copy imprint figures of the earlier years — the free distribution at its peak — versus the current 65,000 show the print market's contraction even in the success story. The digital BREMER — the bremer.de portal's daily news — is the group's answer: the city magazine's brand extended into the continuous digital flow, "für Bremen und den Norden." The digital BREMER's publisher is not separately confirmed on bremer.de; the portal operates as the city magazine's digital brand.

Commercially, the magazine follows the free-press model: the advertisers — the event organizers, the cultural venues, the restaurants, the retailers, and the local businesses — funding the free household distribution and the display points. The 65,000-copy circulation — among Germany's highest for city magazines — and the 2,000-plus display points document the reach. The digital portal's advertising — the banners and the advertorials — extends the B2B business online.

Digital Presence

The brand's digital home is bremer.de — "BREMER - Das Stadtmagazin für Bremen und den Norden" — the daily-updated portal carrying the news, the events, the culture, the food and drink, and the lifestyle for Bremen and surroundings. The stadtmagazin-bremen.de site carries the print title's content: the title stories, the Bremen heads, and the local features. The portal's sections — News, Events, Kultur, Essen + Trinken, Lifestyle — structure the digital reading; the interviews and the raffles engage the community.

The digital strategy follows the city-magazine logic: the print monthly for the curated Bremen reading — the 65,000-copy free magazine in the households and at the display points — the portal for the daily news and the event calendar. As Bremen's city magazine — from the May 2016 first issue through the 100th issue to the digital present — BREMER remains the Hanseatic city's companion: the stories, the events, and the tips — monthly in print, daily on bremer.de, always with the Bremen love.