Die Woche reported on popular entertainment, including "sensationalist crime stories", and covered celebrities in sports and show business.

[1] Its publisher was newspaper magnate August Scherl,[2] who also owned the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, a Berlin paper.

[3] By 1916, Scherl had been bought out by the (politically conservative) Hugenberg Press, and Die Woche came to play a part in the politics of the day, specifically in promoting an image of Paul von Hindenburg as both a military man and a civilian, aiding his appeal across the German population.

[1] A Turkish weekly magazine, Yedigün, was inspired by Die Woche.

[4] Between 1993 and 2002, the title Die Woche was used for a completely different kind of weekly newspaper.