Andreas Schneider (travel writer)

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Andreas Schneider (born May 10, 1951 in Hamburg ) is a German tour guide , tour operator and author of travel guides.

Career

After graduating from high school, Schneider studied Ancient History, Greek and Classical Archeology in Kiel, Marburg and Berlin at the Philippinum grammar school in Marburg. In 1976 he passed a master’s degree on the subject of “The Athenian building policy and its motives in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. Chr. "

He then worked as a tour guide for study trips to Greece, Italy and Egypt. In 1981 Schneider founded his own study travel company, “New Travel. Art and social history study trips ”in Hamburg. In the mid-1980s he began to write travel guides for DuMont travel publisher , first of all he wrote an art travel guide about Cyprus . In 1990 he received his doctorate from Dieter Metzler in Münster with a history didactic work “Historical tour guidance on study trips using the example of Greece and Cyprus with special consideration of ancient history. Guide for tour guides ”.

Schneider lives in Marburg.

Publications (selection)

  • Materialistically guided study trips. About a counter-model to civic educational tourism , in: Kritische reports 10, 1982, pp. 76-80.
  • Who built the seven-door Thebes? , in: Frontal, the socialist student magazine , 22nd year, April / May 1982, pp. 30–32
  • Cyprus. 8,000 years of history. Archaeological treasures, Byzantine churches, Gothic cathedrals . DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1988 (afterwards numerous revisions)
  • Historical tour guidance on study trips using the example of Greece and Cyprus with special consideration of ancient history. Guide for tour guides (= Institute for Tourism of the Free University of Berlin. Reports and Materials No. 7). Publishing house for university communication, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-928077-04-X (dissertation).
  • Islamic Art on the Mediterranean Islands, in: H. Th. Gosziniak (Ed.), Small History of Islamic Art , DuMont Cologne 1991, pp. 141–152
  • Travel paperback Kreta , DuMont-Verlag, Cologne 1992 (afterwards numerous revisions, most recently Kreta ( DuMont travel paperback )). DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2019, ISBN 978-3-616-02047-1 .
  • Article Barn roof churches of Troodos , excavations of Paphos , Chirokitia Stone Age settlement . In: Treasures of the World. Legacy of humanity. The Unesco list of cultural monuments and natural paradises of the world , 6 volumes. Chronik Verlag in Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1999/2000.

Publications about Andreas Schneider and "Neues Reisen" (selection)

  • Barbara Meyer, Bildungsreisen - once completely different , in: Culture and Society No. 6, June 1982
  • Ernst Antoni, The Snake Goddess and Materialism , in: Tendenzen , 23rd year July – Sept. 1982, p. 63f.
  • Monika Putschögl, How different is another journey? Materialistically guided through Florence , in: Die Zeit No. 23, June 1, 1984, p. 49

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review by Johannes Irmscher in: Sileno. Rivista di studi classici e cristiani 15th vol., No. 1-2, 1989, pp. 321-322.

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tour guide, tour operator and author of travel guides
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg