Clemens Schneider

Clemens Schneider (born June 3, 1916 near Idar-Oberstein ; † August 3, 2002 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German pedagogue, writer and local poet .

Life

Clemens Josef Marcellus Schneider was born in 1916 in the forester's house Winterhauch near Mittelbollenbach near Idar-Oberstein. When he was three years old he came to Bad Kreuznach with his family. On his father's side he came from a forester family from Löwenberg in Silesia , on his mother's side the Euler family from Bretzenheim . Schneider spent his childhood and youth in the Bangert manor in Bad Kreuznach, where his father held a forester / hunter position. He attended elementary school and high school in Bad Kreuznach . He was a member of the parish Catholic youth association Bund Neudeutschland and headed the Bad Kreuznach local group from 1933 to 1936. After graduating from high school (1936) and one year of labor service (1937), he began studying theology with the aim of becoming a missionary. He was admitted to the Banz Monastery , which had opened a year earlier and was the seat of the Congregation for the Community of the Holy Angels , the missionary bishop Franz-Yaver Geyer. After six semesters of philosophy and theology, he became a soldier on October 1, 1940. After three wounds, some of them severe, he was taken prisoner of war by the English on April 29, 1945 as a first lieutenant until November 1945.

After the war, Schneider studied German, history and French in Tübingen. After his marriage and the birth of three children, he taught from 1955 to 1959 at the German School Abroad in The Hague, which was still being set up, and held the functions of headmaster. From 1960 to 1966 he worked as deputy director at the European School in Varese . At the request of the Catholic Foreign Secretariat, an agency of the German Bishops' Conference in Bonn, he was involved in the founding of "Congregations with the German Tongue" in The Hague in 1957 and in Varese in 1962. His third activity abroad took the family to Austria from 1970 to 1973, where Schneider, based on his international experience in Feldkirch at the Stella Matutina Jesuit College , was supposed to establish European compatibility for foreign students. Afterwards he worked again as director of studies in Bad Kreuznach at the Lina-Hilger-Gymnasium until 1981.

Activity as a writer

After retirement, he devoted himself to writing. He wrote church guides for the St. Nicholas Church and Holy Cross Church in Bad Kreuznach and carried out studies on the history of the local Kolping family and on aspects of the German aberrations through National Socialism . His commitment to town twinning with Bourg-en-Bresse and Neuruppin was also reflected in his writings. The Italian culture, which had shaped him through his first foreign engagement (1960–66), revived in his “Canzoni - ponti dei popoli”. Numerous plays written by him on the history of Bad Kreuznach were performed by the theater group of the adult education center . He systematically examined the dialect and wrote dialect songs and poems as well as a grammar, partly in humorous or child-friendly diction. Some of his stage pieces were performed in Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig and Verona and were broadcast on Südwest-Rundfunk.

Honors

After he had received the “Schambes-Klappergässer-Preis” in 1980 from the Public Gazette, Bad Kreuznach, he was awarded the honorary citizen's medal on June 6, 2001, “for many years of selfless work without any remuneration for the benefit of the community”. This was connected with an entry in the "Iron Book" of the city of Bad Kreuznach.

Selected works

• Near country calendar Bad Kreuznach
  • Near-country memories of Bishop Dr. Franz Rudolf Bornewasser . 1953.
  • The Kolping family - 125 years in Bad Kreuznach. 1985.
  • De Jümmelaasche song. (Dialect) 1988.
  • Mother's love under the swastika in Bad Kreuznach. 1992.
  • Mudderschbraach un Vadderland. (Poem) 1993
  • Bad Kreuznach - 175 years - spa and bathing city. 1994.
  • De Generazjionsvertraach. (Short story) 1995
  • Heinrich Heine in the “Third Reich”. 1999.
  • Pastoral care in the last war. 2000.
  • The impromptu game and the youth movement. 2002.

• Home pages Bad Kreuznach
  • Memories of the honored educator Dr. Karl Geib. 1954.
  • When lorries rolled through the manor: the Bangert manor around 1920. 1986.
  • Dialect lives from spontaneous use: the way of speaking differs from place to place - a reflection of the historical development in the Nahe. 1988.
  • Not only do the clocks strike the same: historical parallels in the urban development of Bad Kreuznach and Bourg-en-Bresse in the 13th century. 1989.
  • Why babbele merr like that, wi mer bawwele? : Comments on the Kreuznach city language, in which the eventful history is reflected. 1990.
  • The forced sale of the “Concordia” in 1941: Documentation of National Socialist local politics in Bad Kreuznach. 1991.
  • Karl Geib and the Nazi regime: memories of a visit to the Bad Kreuznach local history museum in 1944. 1992.
  • The forest ranger's log book: The Bad Kreuznacher Hardtwald in the last century. 1995.

• Other writings - partially processed for plays
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II in exile - Director Schneider reports from the German School in The Hague. In: Allgemeine Anzeiger. (Rhein Main Presse), November 21, 1958.
  • A school system with a European spirit - founded by parents in Luxembourg, it has since proven itself. In: Allgemeine Anzeiger. (Rhein Main Presse), 21./22. July 1962.
  • The schools of Europe and the European schools. In: Allgemeine Anzeiger. (Rhein Main Presse), March 20, 1966.
  • Can Europe be prepared in schools? In: Rheinischer Merkur. March 19, 1966.
  • Heilig Kreuz in Bad Kreuznach: Development and construction history. (Ed .: Catholic Parish Office Hl. Kreuz Bad Kreuznach) 1974.
  • E Schbraachfihrer uff Kreiznacherisch: with e bissje Grammadisch for neie un richdische Leit vun hiwwe un driwwe vun de Noh. Self-published, 1981.
  • St. Nikolaus Bad Kreuznach (guide, cross reliquary). Bad Kreuznach Druckerei Raab (publisher: Catholic parish Sankt Nikolaus Bad Kreuznach) 1983.
  • 125 years of the Kolping Family Bad Kreuznach: 1859–1984. (Ed .: Kolping Family Bad Kreuznach) 1984.
  • The cheerful basic course "Kreiznacherisch". Ms. Fiedler, Bad Kreuznach 1988, ISBN 3-924824-61-4 .
  • Against the current: The St. Wolfgang youth group, Bad Kreuznach 1933–1936. 1990.
  • Hans Forster, Toni Thurnreiter (ed.): The game of the historical emergence of the city of Kreuznach 1241-1290. (= Regional studies and lessons. 10). Institute for Teacher Training, 1990.
  • The first and last day of the Civitas Crucenacha (and 5 years after): parable in 5 acts. (without year)
  • The Kreuznach mosaic floor. (no year) ISBN 3-935516-02-9 .
  • Saint Nicholas in the parish church of St. Nicholas. (no year) ISBN 3-9805511-7-2 .
  • The corpse at Rotenfels. (1983). In: Murder in Troubled Times. Two Kreuznach crime stories from the past. (Ed .: Christa Quitzau-Schneider), 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9077-2 .

• Plays
  • The game of the historical origins of the city of Creuznach 1241–1290. 1990.
  • The new Jedermann: a legend. (First title: "Dance of Death"). (1991), performances in Cologne, Düren, Meddersheim, Niederhausen, Bad Kreuznach: Ms. Fiedler, ISBN 3-924824-91-6 .
  • The prodigal daughter. (1997). Performance in the Pauluskirche, Bad Kreuznach, in Leipzig in two districts on Kirchentag and in Berlin (theater in the church).
  • Four gods get out. A local farce. (2009). Performance in the box in the Haus des Gastes, Bad Kreuznach.
  • Neighbor Faustus. (2000). Performance in the Kirchsteinanalage in the Kurpark, Bad Kreuznach and as an SWR broadcast

literature

• Horst Silbermann: From a rich life - "From a temperament that is able to play on many strings". Retired Director of Studies Clemens Schneider on his 80th birthday. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter. 6, 1996.
• Horst Silbermann: An "excellent" Kreuznacher retired director of studies Clemens Schneider on his 85th birthday. In: Bad Kreuznacher Heimatblätter. 6, 2001.