About Natur

Natur

Natur – Magazin für Natur, Umwelt und besseres Leben is a German monthly magazine devoted to nature, the environment and the sustainable life, published by the Konradin Mediengruppe. The magazine presents the natural world — its wonders, its crises, its protection — alongside the practical questions of environmentally conscious living: the garden, the food, the energy, the everyday choices. Appearing monthly, Natur serves readers who want to understand nature and to live in accordance with it. Its web domain natur.de is attributed to the title in reference sources but could not be independently verified for this profile; it is noted here rather than listed as the official website.

Overview

Natur occupies the green position in German knowledge publishing: the monthly magazine for nature and the environment. Where the science monthlies explain research and the gardening magazines serve the hobby, Natur combines the two — the natural world understood scientifically, and the sustainable life practised personally. The magazine's subtitle, "Magazin für Natur, Umwelt und besseres Leben" (magazine for nature, the environment and the better life), is the programme: nature as knowledge, the environment as responsibility, the better life as practice.

The Konradin publishing home places the title within the specialist publisher's knowledge-magazine cluster: alongside Bild der Wissenschaft (science) and Damals (history), Natur is the group's nature and environment title, the monthly for the green curious reader. The Leinfelden-Echterdingen-based publishing house's long-term, specialist orientation suits the title's character: the patient explanation of the natural world, the serious treatment of the environmental crises, the practical service for the sustainable life.

History

Natur's history reflects the German environmental movement's growth into the mainstream. As the ecological consciousness — the forest dieback debates, the anti-nuclear movement, the Green Party's rise, the climate crisis — transformed German public life, the demand grew for a popular magazine that would treat nature and the environment with the seriousness of a knowledge title and the practicality of a service magazine. Natur answered that demand: the monthly that explained the natural world and guided the environmentally conscious life.

Through the decades the magazine documented the environmental era's great subjects: the rainforest's destruction and the species extinction, the climate science and the energy transition, the organic movement and the sustainable food, the garden as ecosystem and the city as habitat. Each wave brought new subjects and new readers, and the magazine's archive is a record of how German environmental consciousness evolved — from the protest movement to the mainstream, from the warning to the practice.

The Konradin era gave the title the specialist publisher's stability: the long-term commitment to the subject through the media market's turbulence, the monthly rhythm maintained, the green mission preserved. The magazine's subtitle — nature, environment, the better life — captures the editorial philosophy: the understanding that the environmental crisis is answered not only by politics and technology but by the lived practice of the readers.

Content

Each monthly issue combines nature knowledge with environmental practice: the cover story — typically a natural wonder, an environmental crisis or a sustainability theme — leads the issue, followed by the departments. The nature features present the living world — the species, the ecosystems, the seasons — with the photography and the explanation the subject deserves. The environment pages report the crises and the solutions: the climate, the biodiversity, the pollution, the conservation successes. And the "besseres Leben" (better life) sections serve the practice: the garden, the food, the energy, the consumption — the everyday choices through which the reader lives the magazine's values.

The garden coverage deserves special mention: the natural garden, the organic methods, the biodiversity in the backyard — the magazine treats the reader's garden as the front line of the environmental practice, the place where the understanding of nature becomes the lived reality. The food pages — the seasonal, the regional, the organic — connect the plate to the planet. The energy and consumption guides navigate the sustainable choices: the renovation, the mobility, the purchasing decisions.

The tone is serious without being despairing: the magazine reports the environmental crises honestly — the extinction, the warming, the destruction — while showing the paths forward, the successes, the practices that make a difference. This is the green optimism of the knowledgeable: the world is in crisis, and the reader's understanding and action matter.

Coverage & Audience

Natur is sold throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland at newsstands and by subscription, appearing monthly. Its readership is the environmentally conscious public: the nature-lovers, the gardeners, the organic consumers, the engaged citizens who want to understand the natural world and to live sustainably. The magazine's combination — the knowledge and the practice — addresses the reader who wants both: to know nature and to act for it.

The brand's position in the German green public is distinctive: the knowledge magazine for the environmental mainstream, the monthly that treats the sustainable life as the intelligent life. For the German environmental movement's broad middle — beyond the activists, among the practitioners — Natur is the print companion.

Ownership

Natur is published by the Konradin Mediengruppe of Leinfelden-Echterdingen, the specialist publishing house. The Konradin group's knowledge-magazine cluster — Natur for nature and the environment, Bild der Wissenschaft for science, Damals for history — gives the publisher its profile: the specialist house for the curious, engaged reader. The family-influenced publishing house's long-term orientation underwrites the title's green mission: the patient, serious, practical environmental journalism, sustained over the decades.

Digital Presence

The brand's digital presence is attributed to natur.de, though the domain could not be independently verified at the time of writing. The magazine's digital strategy follows the knowledge-magazine pattern: the website's articles, the nature photography, the practical guides, the newsletters and the social-media presence serving the online green audience, while the monthly print magazine provides the curated reading experience.

The digital opportunity for the nature magazine is the visual internet: the nature photography, the garden inspiration, the wildlife videos — the content that thrives on the platforms. Natur's combination of the beautiful and the practical, the knowledge and the service, translates naturally to the digital formats: the Instagram garden, the YouTube nature film, the newsletter's seasonal guidance. For the magazine of nature, the environment and the better life, the digital age offers the global community of the green curious — connected through the pixels as well as the pages.

The German environmental press provides Natur's context: the nature magazines, the gardening press, the sustainability blogs and the environmental organisations' publications form a crowded field, and Natur's distinction is the combination — the scientific understanding of nature with the practical guidance for the sustainable life. The magazine's garden coverage exemplifies it: the natural garden presented not as a hobby trend but as applied ecology, the reader's backyard as a habitat, the compost heap as a statement. The German nature-conservation tradition — the NABU, the BUND, the countless local associations — forms the civic background of the readership: the organised, knowledgeable, engaged public that the magazine serves. Natur speaks to the mainstream of this movement: not the activist fringe, but the millions of Germans who sort their waste, buy organic, insulate their houses and want to understand the nature they are protecting. The magazine's monthly rhythm follows the natural year: the spring garden issues, the summer nature features, the autumn harvest and the winter energy topics — the seasons structuring the editorial calendar as they structure the reader's life. In the Konradin knowledge cluster, Natur is the green voice: the magazine that treats the environmental crisis as the defining subject of our time, and the better life as the reader's answer.