Edward Vieth Sittler

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Edward Sittler Vieth (* 17th May 1916 in Delaware , † 6. September 1975 in Stuttgart-Rotenberg ) was a German - American author and university lecturer .

Life

Sittler was born in the USA as the son of Pastor Joseph Sittler and his wife Margret. In 1937 he emigrated to the German Reich, studied, became a German citizen in 1939 and then worked as a radio announcer and Nazi propagandist. From 1940 to 1945 Sittler worked for the Reich Propaganda Ministry ; he was also referred to as a "fanatical Nazi" in a 2004 article in the Berliner Zeitung .

In 1946, Sittler returned to the USA and barely gained a foothold professionally. At times he worked as a lumberjack. In 1957 he became a teacher of English and American literature at Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania and was finally Associate Professor of German at Alfred University in Alfred, New York from 1958 to 1959 . In 1959 he returned to Germany.

At the end of the 1960s he was C3 professor in Regensburg, and finally honorary professor for linguistics in Gießen.

One of his six sons is the German actor Walter Sittler .

Publications

  • Nietzsche's Goethe - The Direct References to Goethe in Nietzsche's Works as a Basis for the Study of Nietzsche's Goethe-concept in Its Development , Diss. Northwestern University 1950.
  • Linguistics and literature. Audio immersion in graded audio texts in the foreign language , Wiesbaden 1970.
  • The audio immersion project - an interdisciplinary attempt to redesign foreign language didactics - report on the conclusion of the first experimental phase at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen 1972–1973 , Giessen 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gregor F. Lüthy on February 18, 2004 in Berliner Zeitung: Charlie and his Orchestra: An almost unknown chapter in National Socialist radio history: Swingen für Goebbels , accessed on November 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sittler, Edward Vieth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American author and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Delaware
DATE OF DEATH 6th September 1975
Place of death Rotenberg