The award aims to encourage the work of young women in the media. Since 2006 Burda has supported the Aenne Burda Award. In 2005, together with the city of Offenburg, Burda donated the 2005 European Translators Award. The foundation was named in memory of his son Felix, who died of the disease. In 2001, Burda established the Felix Burda Foundation, dedicated to the early detection and prevention of colon cancer. In the same year he also created the Hubert Burda Prize for Young Poetry from Eastern Europe. In 1999, he founded the Hubert Burda Foundation, dedicated to literature, international understanding, art, culture and science. In 1997, he founded the Corporate Art Prize for the cultural engagement of companies and initiatives. Between 19, he supported the Nicolas Born prize for lyrics. It was succeeded from 1999 to 2009 by the Hermann Lenz Prize, before reverting to the Petrarca Prize from 2010 to 2014.įrom 1987 to 1995, Burda supported the Petrarca Translator Prize for Literary Translations. It was awarded to contemporary poets and translators from 1975 to 1999 and from 2010 to 2014. In 1975, Burda initiated the Petrarca prize. Chairman of the Board of Trustees Germany Foundation Integration.Initiator of the project "Godfather for Tolerance" in support of the Jewish Center Munich, on Jakobsplatz.Founder of the Hubert Burda Center for Innovative Communication at Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel.Former chairman of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.Panel member of the World Economic Forum, Davos.
Co-founder of European Publishers Council (EPC).President of the VDZ Academy of the Association of German Magazine Publishers.Founder of the Iconic Turn lecture series, discussing the impact of images, photographs, mass media and technologies on culture, society and science.Founder of the Academy of the Third Millennium.Member of the Advisory Council of the Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy.He has given Burda Media shares to his two children Elisabeth and Jacob each now hold 37.4% of the company, leaving him with 25.1%. He is the third richest publisher in Germany, after Friede Springer and Elisabeth Mohn.Īngela Merkel and Hubert Burda in the Munich Residence on Burda's 70th birthday (2010)īurda stepped down as CEO in 2010. The firm's international division recorded turnover of €413 million.Īs of April 2019, Forbes estimated Burda's net worth at US$4 billion. In 2018, Hubert Burda Media employed 12,369 staff and achieved revenues of €2.66 billion in its four divisions (Digital Brands National, Media Brands National, Media Brands International and Print).īurda's German publishing arm generated over €650million, reaching approximately three-quarters the German population. Under his father the firm's revenues were split broadly equally between printing and publishing, but under Hubert the firm significantly expanded its digital and international operations, including joint ventures with Hachette, Microsoft and Rizzoli and international expansion into countries such as Singapore, Thailand, India, Russia. In 1999, Burda renamed the holding company to Hubert Burda Media.
In 1993, Burda collaborated with Helmut Markwort to develop the news magazine Focus, a rival to Der Spiegel. In addition to the program magazine Super TV, Burda also established SUPERillu, the magazine with the largest circulation in what was then East Germany, launching six weeks before German reunification. In 1988, he recruited the editorial director of Bild-Zeitung, Günter Prinz, from Springer-Verlag. As an independent project, in 1969 he founded the magazine m - The Magazine For Men.īurda assumed the role of sole shareholder and CEO of Burda Holding in 1987. Īfter several traineeships in US advertising agencies and publishers, Burda worked until 1974 as publishing director of the Burda magazine Bild und Funk. He earned his doctorate in art history before the age of 26 his dissertation was titled Die Ruine in Hubert Robert's Pictures. His father permitted him to study art history only on condition that he wait until after the age of 25 to begin.īurda attended the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, where he studied art history with Hans Sedlmayr, as well as archaeology and sociology. Īs a sixth-form pupil he took painting lessons daily and hoped to become a painter, against his father's wishes.
Burda is the youngest son of the publishing couple Franz and Aenne Burda, alongside his older brothers Franz and Frieder.