Wolf Schneider

Wolf Schneider ( born May 7, 1925 in Erfurt ) is a German journalist, nonfiction author and language critic.

Life

Wolf Schneider grew up in Berlin. After graduation, he did his military service in the Air Force. After the war he worked as an interpreter for the U.S. Army, then from 1947 at the Munich Neue Zeitung, a newspaper for the U.S. military government; first as a volunteer, then as an editor. From 1950 on, he spent six years as a correspondent for the Associated Press, later head of the newsroom and Washington correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

1966, Schneider moved to the magazine Stern, where he first was Managing Editor and Publishing Director from 1969. In 1971 he joined Axel Springer AG to build the news magazine dialogue. The project failed, and he became in 1973 editor of the daily newspaper Die Welt, then Hamburg. Because Schneider had published a critical commentary about the Chilean dictator Pinochet, he aroused the displeasure of Axel Springer and was replaced after just over a year.

Schneider remained " special use " by Springer. In 1979 he was (later Henri Nannen School ) to head the newly founded Hamburg School of Journalism called. He stood up in 1995 at the top of this training center for journalists, contributed in these years to the reputation of the school and made a name for himself as a language teacher and critic.

From 1979 to 1987, 1991 to 1992 Schneider moderated the NDR Talk Show. From May 2009 until 2011, he expressed himself in the video column Speak Schneider! on sueddeutsche.de regular updates on the German language.

Schneider now lives in Starnberg.

Speech and language style critic teacher

From 1995 to 2012 Wolf Schneider language seminars held for press and business and was an instructor at journalism schools. He wrote 28 non-fiction books, including standard works such as German for life. What forgot to teach school, German for connoisseurs. The new stylistics, German for professionals. Ways to good style and the new handbook of journalism. Since the edition of January 2012 The new handbook of journalism published under the title The new handbook of journalism and online journalism ( with Paul -Josef Raue ). Schneider advises brief but informative writing.

Wolf Schneider is one of the critics of the spelling reform. In autumn 2005 he founded together with the Chairman of the Association German Language (VDS ), Walter Krämer, and Josef Kraus, president of the German Teachers' Association, the living German action. Schneider is also one of the critics of gender language, as they have done in his opinion to a " ridiculous Verumständlichung " of the Germans.

Awards

Writings

To language

  • Words make the man. Magic and power of language. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-492-02218-9; Paperback edition: Rowohlt TB, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-499-17277-1 / 15 edition, Piper -TB, Munich / Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-20479-8.
  • German for professionals. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1982; Paperback edition: German for professionals. Way to a good style. Illustrated by Luis Murschetz. Goldmann TB, Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-442-16175-1.
  • German for connoisseurs. The new stylistics, edited by Heiner Bremer. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-570-07958-9; Piper, Munich / Zurich: 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24461-9.
  • German for connoisseurs. The new stylistics, edited by Heiner Bremer. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-570-07958-9; Piper, Munich / Zurich: 2005, ISBN 978-3-492-24461-9.
  • German for Life. What forgot to teach the school. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994, ISBN 3-499-19695-6.
  • German for advertisers Edition magazines, periodicals Academy, Bonn 1997 ( no ISBN ).
  • German! The manual for attractive texts. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 978-3-498-06381-8.
  • Speak German! - Why German is sometimes better. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-498-06393-1.
  • Shall gain but the subjunctive! Wit in 66 lessons. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-62463-6.
  • German for young professionals. How to write well and alive. Rowohlt, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-87134-672-9.
  • German lives! . An Appeal to wake up. 2nd edition. Institute of Linguistics IFB, publishing German Language, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-942409-01-8, 1003423469 DNB ( With Walter Krämer, Josef Kraus and Cornelius Sommer, the publisher of his book, accessed 15 October 2010 ).

About journalism

  • Our daily disinformation. As the mass media lead us astray. 5th edition. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg, 1992 ( first edition 1984), ISBN 3-570-03915-3, DNB 942 598 113 ( with 5 graduates of Henri Nannen School: Bernd Matthies, Matthias Nass, Christian Nürnberger, Martin Tschechne and Bernd Ziesemer; illustrations by Luis Murschetz ).
  • The headline - constraints, pitfalls, temptations, recipes, with Detlef Esslinger, List, Munich / Leipzig 1993 ( = Journalistic practice), 4th Edition: Econ, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-430-20021-9.
  • The new handbook of journalism ( with Paul -Josef Raue ). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003, ISBN 3-499-61569- X.
  • Words wash - 26 good reasons to distrust political terms, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006, ISBN 978-3-499-62106-2.
  • The Gruner Jahr story. A piece of German history of the press. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-492-04265-1.

Non-fiction books on other topics

  • Babylon is Everywhere - history of world cities. Econ 1960.
  • Food - History of the Ruhr and its metropolis. Econ 1963, 5th edition 1991.
  • Soldiers - world history and psychology of a controversial figure, Econ 1964 The modern non-fiction in 1966.
  • Guido Mangold ( photos): The Alps - Wild - Almrausch - fairground, Geo - book in 1984, 3rd edition 1989.
  • Cologne Cathedral - How the Germans came to their world wonder, star - book 1991.
  • Fortunately, what is it? Dream and reality. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1978, ISBN 3-492-02391-6; revised paperback edition: good luck! A slightly different instructions for use. rororo 62231 nonfiction, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-62231-1.
  • Titanic myth: the minutes of the disaster - three hours that shook the world. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-570-05991- X ( = A Star book ); Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1997, ISBN 3-86047-553-3; Paperback edition: rororo 62781, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-62781-1.
  • The winners: making geniuses, visionaries and criminals have become famous. Gruner and Jahr, Hamburg, 1992; Paperback edition: Piper -TB in 2217, Munich / Zurich, 1996, ISBN 3-492-22217- X.
  • How to save the world and thereby amused ( together with Christoph Fasel ). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 3-498-06294-8.
  • Big losers. From Goliath to Gorbachev, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-498-06365-0
  • The Man. A career. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-498-06405-1; Paperback edition: rororo 62427 rororo nonfiction, Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-62427-8.

Quotes

"I have the feeling to have been very well treated by God. That I fulltime exactly doing now, what makes me fun and what an entire industry asks is already a nice feeling. I've never had as many orders as this year. "

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