Die Weltbühne (English: "The World Stage") was a German weekly magazine focused on politics, art, and business. The "Weltbühne" was founded in Berlin on 7 September 1905 by Siegfried Jacobsohn and was originally created strictly as a theater magazine under the title "Die Schaubühne". It was renamed "Die Weltbühne" on 4 April 1918. After Jacobsohn's death in December 1926, Kurt Tucholsky took over the leadership of the magazine, which he turned over to Carl von Ossietzky in May 1927. The Nazis banned the publication after the Reichstag fire, and its last issue appeared on 7 March 1933. In exile the magazine was published under the title "Die neue Weltbühne" ("The New World Stage"). After the end of World War II, it appeared again under its original name in East Berlin, where it endured until 1993. In 1997 the magazines "Ossietzky" and "Das Blättchen" appeared, following the model of "Die Weltbühne".