About Meine Familie & ich

Meine Familie & ich

Meine Familie & ich is a German-language food and enjoyment magazine, published by Hubert Burda Media. Appearing thirteen times a year, it has served family households since 1966 and counts among the most successful publications of the Burda group. The magazine addresses parents — above all mothers — who cook for their families every day and need recipes that are simple, quick, affordable, and reliable, alongside guidance on health, wellness, travel, money, and law. The editor-in-chief is Gabriele Höger; the publishing house is led by managing director Frank-Jörg Ohlhorst. With a sold circulation of 364,106 copies in the first quarter of 2016 and a reach of 1.01 million readers (Media Analysis 2020 I), it belongs to the heavyweights of the German food-magazine market. In a segment where gourmet titles celebrate haute cuisine and health titles preach nutrition science, Meine Familie & ich occupies the everyday position: the cooking magazine for real family life.

Overview

The magazine presents itself as the cooking and enjoyment magazine for the family. Published thirteen times a year — monthly plus a special issue — it offers many simple and creative recipes suited to every day. The editorial promise is tuned to the reality of its readers: in a large family there is not much time for cooking, especially when a job adds to the household — so the delicious recipe ideas must be simple and quick to implement. All recipes are newly developed, with a guaranteed-success promise.

The readership is defined by life stage: parents who want to cook healthily and variedly for their families and who need support and tips on health, wellness, travel, money, and law. The readers are active and want more quality of life for the whole family; the topics interest women and men alike and offer variety from the turbulent everyday. The magazine thus combines the recipe core with family-service journalism — the cooking magazine as the household's companion. Readers find not only what to cook but how to organize the feeding of a family: the weekly planner, the budget-conscious ingredient choices, and the time-saving techniques that make daily cooking sustainable for working parents.

The single-copy price is 3.90 euros (2026). The magazine is published by the BurdaVerlag Publishing GmbH within the BurdaVerlag division of Hubert Burda Media, headquartered at Arabellastraße 23 in Munich. The ISSN of the print edition is 0933-081X. The title's longevity — six decades of continuous publication since 1966 — makes it one of the oldest continuously published food magazines in Germany.

History

Meine Familie & ich was first published in 1966 — in the era of the German Wirtschaftswunder, when the family household became the addressee of the modern consumer-goods industry and the women's and family press expanded rapidly. The magazine was conceived as the cooking and family magazine for the housewife and mother, offering practical help for the daily feeding of the family alongside the emerging topics of household management and family life.

Under Hubert Burda Media, the title developed into one of the group's most successful publications. The BurdaVerlag division — the group's publishing arm, headquartered in Offenburg and Munich — built the magazine into a circulation heavyweight: 364,106 copies sold in the first quarter of 2016 under IVW audit, and a reach of 1.01 million readers in the Media Analysis 2020 I. The thirteen-issues-per-year rhythm, unusual among monthly magazines, reflects the title's commercial strength: the additional special issues serve seasonal peaks such as the barbecue season and the Christmas baking period. Each special issue functions as a collectible theme booklet — raclette in winter, grilling in summer — giving readers focused inspiration for the occasions when family cooking matters most.

Over six decades, the magazine tracked the transformation of German family cooking: from the economical postwar kitchen through the convenience-food wave to the current demands for fresh, healthy, and affordable family nutrition. The editorial formula — simple, quick, affordable, guaranteed to succeed — proved durable across these shifts, adapting its recipes to new appliances (from the microwave to the air fryer) and new dietary awareness without abandoning its core promise.

Coverage and Content

The editorial coverage of Meine Familie & ich is organized around the family's table through the seasons. Recipe features form the core: seasonal cooking — winter raclette variations and citrus vitamin cuisine, spring asparagus and Easter baking, summer grilling and air-fryer snacks, autumn pumpkin and mushroom dishes — alongside the everyday repertoire of affordable minced-meat recipes, one-pot dishes, pasta gratins, and potato curries. Recent issues have featured minced-meat creations from rediscovered meatballs to football-evening quesadillas, fresh market vegetables, and the season's best cakes from peach to Gugelhupf.

Baking is a standing focus: from grandmother's filled Gugelhupf rediscovered to lemon roulades and feta rolls as barbecue sides, the magazine serves the German family's baking traditions alongside new ideas. The "great weekly planner with affordable recipes" — a regular extra booklet — addresses the household's planning reality: feeding a family well on a budget requires organization, and the magazine provides it.

Service journalism completes the issues: health and wellness topics, travel ideas for families, and practical guidance on money and legal questions affecting households. The tone is consistently encouraging and pragmatic — the magazine positions itself as the ally of parents who want to do right by their families without spending hours in the kitchen or a fortune at the checkout. The extra booklets — weekly planners, seasonal specials — extend the magazine's utility beyond the recipe pages, making each issue a small household-management toolkit rather than a mere collection of dishes.

Organization and Ownership

Meine Familie & ich is published by the BurdaVerlag Publishing GmbH, part of the BurdaVerlag division of Hubert Burda Media, headquartered at Arabellastraße 23, 81925 Munich. Hubert Burda Media is one of Germany's major media groups, and the magazine counts among its most successful publications. The editor-in-chief is Gabriele Höger; the managing director (Geschäftsführer) is Frank-Jörg Ohlhorst.

The magazine appears thirteen times a year with a single-copy price of 3.90 euros. The bibliographic record documents the publishing history: Munich editions through the MFI Meine Familie und ich Verlag, and since 2012 the Offenburg-based BurdaVerlag Publishing GmbH. The German National Library and the Baden-Württemberg state libraries catalog the title's continuous publication, with the online edition archived for long-term preservation.

Circulation and reach figures document the title's market weight: 364,106 copies sold in IVW I/2016 and 1.01 million readers in MA 2020 I. The commercial model combines single-copy and subscription sales with advertising from the food, household, and family-product industries — the classic consumer-magazine model, scaled to one of Germany's largest food-magazine circulations.

Digital Presence

The magazine's digital home is meine-familie-und-ich.de, where the publisher presents the title, its recipes, and its subscription offers. The site extends the print magazine's recipe promise into the digital kitchen: searchable recipes, seasonal collections, and the weekly-planner logic adapted for online use reach readers between the thirteen print issues.

The title is distributed through the press retail trade and subscription, with single issues also available through magazine retailers — the 2026 issues documented with article numbers, weights, and publication dates testify to the title's continued regular publication. The BurdaVerlag's digital infrastructure supports the brand within the group's food and family portfolio, alongside sister titles such as Lust auf Genuss and Mein Buffet. The magazine's six-decade archive of family recipes represents a culinary record of German everyday cooking — and the digital presence makes this heritage accessible to the next generation of family cooks.