Editor and Publisher FAZ
In 1989, he succeeded Marcel Reich-Ranicki as the director of the editorial staff FAZ Feuilleton a supplement of the FAZ on the arts. In 1994 he succeeded Joachim Fest as one of the five publishers of the newspaper, responsible for the Feuilleton, Science and other parts. Schirrmacher supports expanding this section to include science. Popular culture has also been dealt with more since Schirrmacher has been with the FAZ.
As the press boomed around 2000, Schirrmacher expanded the feuilleton a lot, also recruiting journalists from other newspapers. A few years later, he was, however, forced to reduce the number of pages of the feuilleton and to lay off employees, for the first time in the history of the FAZ. In 2001 he was among the founders of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung", an influential Sunday newspaper, that within 3 years raised circulation to more than 1 million readers (2007).
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