Bunte
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Sample cover of Bunte
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| Editor-in-Chief | Robert Pölzer |
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| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 519,570 (IV/2014) |
| Publisher | Hubert Burda Media |
| Year founded | 1948 |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Website | bunte.de |
Bunte is a German weekly magazine; coverage includes celebrity, gossip, news and lifestyle matters. It is published by Bunte Entertainment Verlag GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media.
The magazine began publication, edited by Franz Burda, as Das Ufer in 1948. In 1954, it became an illustrated magazine and was renamed Bunte Illustrierte. The magazine has been published weekly since the 40/1957 issue. After taking over the "Deutsche Illustrierte" (German Illustrated) in February 1958, the magazine was renamed to the "Bunte Deutsche Illustrierte" (Colorful German Illustrated) and expanded its editorial. In early October 1960, the "Münchner Illustrierte"(Munich Illustrated) was acquired and the magazine was renamed to the "Bunte Münchner Illustrierte” (Colorful Munich Illustrated). With a second editorial branch in Munich, the Burda publishing house in Munich could be created. On 1 January 1963, the "Bunte Münchner Illustrierte" took over the "Frankfurter Illustrierte" and operated as the "Bunte Münchner Frankfurter Illustrierte" (Colorful Munich Frankfurter Illustrated). On 1 July 1972, the "Bunte Illustrierte" appeared for the first time under the title Bunte, whose first editor-in-chief was Bernd Ruland. After 3 March 1976, Hubert Burda was editor-in-chief. At the end of October 1983, the editorial staff moved from Offenburg to the new publishing house in Munich's Arabellapark.
In 1985, Burda publishing house created a series of articles for the magazine from the handwritten estate of Josef Mengele, a KZ doctor from the Auschwitz concentration camp and notoriously known for performing pseudo-medical experiments on living people. The estate consisted of several thousand pages. Bunte purchased it for one million Deutsche Mark (approximately half a million Euro) from Mengele’s son, Rolf.
In 1995, Bunte printed pictures of Caroline, Princess of Hanover, which led to a year-long dispute between the Burda publishing house and Princess Caroline.
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