About DER SONNTAG

DER SONNTAG

DER SONNTAG is the Sunday newspaper of the Badische Neueste Nachrichten (BNN) for Karlsruhe and the surrounding region in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, appearing every Sunday with a sold circulation of around 106,846 copies. Published by the Badendruck GmbH of Karlsruhe, it is one of the region's great Sunday papers, serving the technology region's households with the week's news, features, sports and service journalism. The parent paper, the BNN, is one of Baden-Württemberg's leading regional dailies, and DER SONNTAG extends its journalism into the weekend, reaching readers who want the Sunday paper's distinctive mix of background, entertainment and the week's review. Its digital home is bnn.de, the portal of the Karlsruhe daily.

Overview

DER SONNTAG appears every Sunday as the BNN's weekend paper for Karlsruhe and the surrounding region. Its sold circulation is approximately 106,846 copies, making it one of the highest-circulation Sunday papers in Baden-Württemberg.

The publisher is the Badendruck GmbH of Karlsruhe, the company behind the Badische Neueste Nachrichten. The paper serves the Karlsruhe technology region: the city itself, with its palace, its courts and its research institutions, and the surrounding districts.

The paper's structure follows the Sunday-paper model: the week's review, background features, the weekend's sports, culture, service journalism, the magazine pages and the advertising that funds the Sunday edition. The readership is the region's households: families, professionals, club members and seniors who take time on Sunday for the week's paper.

The Sunday paper's distinctive position is its weekend role: where the daily BNN serves the workday's news needs, DER SONNTAG provides the reflective, entertaining and service-oriented journalism of the day of rest.

History

DER SONNTAG's history is the history of the Badische Neueste Nachrichten' Sunday edition. The BNN is one of Baden-Württemberg's traditional regional dailies, serving Karlsruhe and the region, and the Sunday paper emerged as the weekend extension of the daily's journalism.

The Sunday paper chronicled the region's weekends through the decades: the technology region's development, the palace city's cultural life, the sports, the festivals and the community events. The paper's 106,846-copy circulation reflects the region's loyalty to its Sunday paper.

The Badendruck GmbH guided the paper through the media transformation, maintaining the printed Sunday edition while developing bnn.de as the digital home. The Sunday paper's history is the history of Karlsruhe's weekend journalism.

Coverage and Content

DER SONNTAG's pages are the Sunday review of the Karlsruhe region's week. The week's news is revisited with background, analysis and the features that the daily's rhythm doesn't allow: the politics, the economy, the culture and the community stories of the technology region.

The weekend's sports provide the Sunday staple: the Karlsruher SC's matches, the regional leagues, the results and the reports, covered for the fans who follow the Sunday paper's sports pages. Culture fills the magazine sections: the theater, the concerts, the exhibitions and the books.

Service journalism is central: the travel pages, the consumer advice, the health features, the real estate and automotive sections, and the entertainment that Sunday readers expect. The paper's tone is reflective, entertaining and reader-close.

The advertising, from the retail to the real estate to the automotive, funds the Sunday edition and serves the region's businesses with the weekend's high-attention audience.

The Karlsruhe region's research institutions give the paper its intellectual dimension: the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the courts, the cultural institutions and the technology region's innovations provide the material for the Sunday paper's background features. For the region's families, the SONNTAG's service pages, from the travel to the health to the consumer advice, are the weekend's practical companion, while its magazine sections, with the interviews, the portraits and the essays, offer the reflective reading that Sunday allows.

The paper's 106,846-copy circulation makes it one of Baden-Württemberg's most-read Sunday papers, and its role as the week's review gives it a distinctive editorial voice: the analysis, the commentary and the background that the daily's rhythm cannot provide. For the Karlsruhe region's clubs and associations, the Sunday paper's event previews serve the weekend's cultural life, while its sports pages give the fans the comprehensive review of the weekend's matches.

The palace city's culture gives the paper its weekend color: the theater premieres, the concert reviews, the museum exhibitions and the festival previews fill the SONNTAG's magazine pages. For the region's readers, the Sunday paper's puzzles, the serialized features and the reader letters provide the interactive elements, while its real estate and automotive sections serve the weekend's big purchase decisions.

The Karlsruhe region's festivals give the paper its seasonal rhythm: the city festival, the Christmas market, the cultural summer and the sporting events are previewed and reviewed in the Sunday paper's pages. For the region's gardeners and homeowners, the SONNTAG's service features provide the weekend's practical reading, while its travel pages inspire the Sunday dreaming that the week's paper cannot offer.

The technology region's innovations give the paper its forward-looking dimension: the research breakthroughs, the startups and the digital transformation are explained in the Sunday paper's background features. For the region's readers, the SONNTAG's interviews with the personalities of the palace city provide the weekend's conversations, while its book pages and the cultural criticism serve the reflective Sunday reader.

For the Karlsruhe region's families, the Sunday paper's children's pages and the family features provide the weekend's shared reading, while its coverage of the region's excursion destinations, from the Black Forest to the Palatinate, inspires the Sunday outings. The paper's horoscopes, the puzzles and the reader competitions complete the Sunday offering.

The SONNTAG's role as the BNN's weekend voice gives it a loyal readership that values the reflective Sunday journalism, and its 106,846-copy circulation secures its place among Baden-Württemberg's great Sunday papers.

For the region's advertisers, the Sunday paper's high-attention audience offers the weekend's premium reach.

The SONNTAG's e-paper serves the readers who spend their Sundays beyond the Karlsruhe region, keeping them connected to the palace city's weekend journalism.

Organization and Ownership

DER SONNTAG is published by the Badendruck GmbH of Karlsruhe, the company behind the Badische Neueste Nachrichten. The BNN's newsroom produces the Sunday paper, with editors and reporters creating the weekend's distinctive journalism.

The paper is printed with the company's modern production infrastructure and distributed across the Karlsruhe region every Sunday. The digital operations are integrated through bnn.de.

Financial details of the Sunday edition are not publicly disclosed. The company follows the German Press Code (Pressekodex), the voluntary ethical standard of the German press.

Digital Presence

DER SONNTAG's digital home is bnn.de, the portal of the Badische Neueste Nachrichten, one of Baden-Württemberg's most-visited regional news sites. The site carries continuously updated news from Karlsruhe and the region, along with e-paper access, photo galleries, videos and reader services.

The e-paper reproduces the printed Sunday paper page by page for computers, tablets and smartphones. The BNN app provides breaking news, personalized notifications and full e-paper access.

On social media, the BNN maintains strong presences on Facebook, Instagram and other platforms, distributing the region's news and the Sunday paper's features to the audience.

Newsletters deliver curated briefings on Karlsruhe and the region to subscribers' inboxes. The digital strategy aims to build paid digital subscriptions alongside the printed paper, while the printed SONNTAG, with its 106,846 sold copies, remains the Karlsruhe region's Sunday paper, in the technology region's households every Sunday morning.