Carl Schuster (journalist)

Carl Schuster (born October 2, 1907 in Kaiserslautern , † March 21, 2004 in Munich ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Carl Schuster was born in Kaiserslautern. He graduated from business school, trained as a bookseller and trained as a publishing bookseller. He worked for publishing houses in Berlin, Heidelberg and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. In autumn 1937 he moved to Munich, where he worked as a lecturer . In December 1939 he was drafted and after his training as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech he came with Artillery 2/636, a 21st mortar unit, first to France to the Maginot Line and then to Russia to the Demjansk fortress . On January 4, 1943, he was seriously wounded by a tank shell. After his recovery, he worked from February 1944 as a publishing manager at the Junker and Dünnhaupt publishing house in Dessau .

On August 5, 1945, Carl Schuster was arrested by the Russian secret police, allegedly for participating in the establishment of a liberal-democratic party. He was released from prison on September 28, 1945 and fled to the West. After his return to Munich in early 1945, he was one of the first to receive permission from the American occupation forces to do journalistic work in Munich.

Carl Schuster worked as a freelance journalist and book author. He mainly wrote as a Munich correspondent for Die Rheinpfalz and the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung . At times he worked as a freelancer for ten different newspapers, wrote articles on politics and art. For almost 50 years he was the editor-in-chief of the " Voice of the Palatinate " magazine , a regional cultural magazine that he had built up from 1950. In the summer of 1976 he organized an exhibition in the Bavarian State Parliament in Munich to mark the 200th anniversary of the USA , on the occasion of the victory at the Battle of Yorktown , in which a Palatinate regiment was also involved.

He wrote numerous articles, including under the pseudonyms C .Th. Sutor , Simon Faber and Alexander Ludovici . For the 70th birthday of the President of the Bavarian State Parliament, Rudolf Hanauer , he published a book entitled “Search for a Better World”. He wrote these speeches as a ghostwriter for Hanauer between 1960 and 1978.

In 1948/49 he was a founding member of the association " Bund der Pfalzfreunde in Bayern" and the "Landesverband der Pfälzer Bayern", which runs the Palatinate wine tavern in the Munich residence.

Schuster was married to Hildegard Schuster, born in 1951. Peschke and had two children. He died on March 21, 2004, his urn is in the north cemetery in Munich .

Awards

• 1976: Honoring the US ambassador for extraordinary achievements on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the USA
• 1991: Regional media award of the cultural magazine "Voice of the Palatinate"
• 1992: Medal of Merit of the State Association of the Palatinate
• 1994: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1995: Awarding of the Johann Christian von Hofenfels Medal to Carl Schuster in the Bavarian State Parliament by Johann Böhm

Publications

• "Search for a better world"; Rudolf Hanauer, essays and speeches - written by the ghostwriter Carl Schuster . Josef Keller Verlag, Starnberg, 1978, ISBN 3-7808-0115-9
• A marriage on the left. The Forbachs in the age of revolutions. On the weekend. Supplement to the Saarbrücker Zeitung, 1981, No. 47
• Giordano Bruno - The heretic who met God in space . RG Fischer Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-88323-947-X
• Mirror talks by Johann Christian Hofenfels . Palatinate Publishing House, Landau / Pfalz, 1990, ISBN 3-87629-184-4
• The people of AIPOTU - In the firelight of the turning point (as. C. Th. Sumor). RG Fischer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 3-89406-543-5
• The six lives of the Denis brothers . Publishing house Palatinate Art - Dr. Hans Blinn, 1995, ISBN 3-922580-53X
• DER FALL T 0 RT 0 R 0 T 0 T, a dream city-story-psychogram of a street , Carl Schuster, Eigendruck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-048778-1

swell

• Karl Heinz: A laudation that shouldn't be: Carl Schuster on his eightieth . Journal "Voice of the Palatinate" 1987: 3rd quarter, issue No. 3, volume 38, p. 7
• Greetings from Wilhelm Vorndran, President of the Bavarian State Parliament on the occasion of the presentation of the "Palatinate Media Prize 1991" to Carl Schuster, Dr. Hans Blinn, Michael Burg and Franz Josef Bettag, "Voice of the Palatinate" magazine: 1992: 2nd quarter, issue No. 2, volume 43
• Dirk Klose: The pioneer of Bavaria-Palatinate, Carl Schuster, long-time editor of the “Voice of the Palatinate” and publicist, celebrated his 95th birthday . Journal "Voice of the Palatinate": 2002: 4th quarter, 4th issue, volume 53, p. 14
• Hans Blinn: In memoriam Carl Schuster, the longtime editor of our magazine, died at the age of 96 . Journal "Voice of the Palatinate": 2004: 2nd quarter, 2nd issue, volume 55, p. 16

Web links

• Carl Schuster , web presence of Claus Schuster.