Hubert Burda Media's Focus (spelled FOCUS) is a German-language news magazine. Since 2015, the editorial team has been based in Berlin, Germany's capital. The magazine focuses on international affairs and politics with a special interest in Europe. Focus was founded in 1972 by Hubert Burda who still owns 70 percent of the company. The other 30 percent is owned by the Holtzbrinck group which also publishes Der Spiegel. Before founding Focus, Burda worked at Springer Verlag where he met Peter Löscher who would go on to be one of the founders of Focus. Löscher came up with the idea for the magazine while working as an editor at Stern magazine. He wrote a column called "In Focus" which discussed current topics in politics, culture, and science. This inspired him to create a new magazine that would cover these same subjects but from a European perspective. After graduating from university, Löscher contacted Burda to see if he would be interested in financing the publication of Focus. Burda agreed, and the two of them started work on creating a new magazine. They hired several journalists to help write articles and draw illustrations, and in its first year, they had about 20,000 subscribers.