Günter Schneidewind

Günter Schneidewind (* 1953 in Nachterstedt ) is a former German radio presenter and author .

Career

During the GDR era, Schneidewind taught German and English at the Paul-Schreier-Oberschule (later Adolph-Diesterweg-Oberschule) in Hennigsdorf as a high school teacher . His radio career began with DT64 , the youth radio in the GDR. A few months before reunification , he came to Stuttgart in August 1990 as part of a joint SDR3 and DT64 project and, together with Matthias Holtmann , moderated the Top 2000 D , the first all-German hit parade .

For the radio program SWR1 of the Südwestrundfunk he was part of the team of moderators for the programs “The Afternoon” (daily from 1pm to 2pm) and “Guten Abend Baden-Württemberg” (Saturday and Sunday from 6pm to 8pm). In the radio program of SWR1, Schneidewind was also called "The Great Schneidewind" by his colleagues based on " Der Große Brockhaus " due to his extensive knowledge of music . Over the years, Schneidewind had numerous personal encounters with national and international personalities from the rock and pop business. He reports on facts and anecdotes from these encounters in his two books published in 2011 and 2017.

In autumn 2018, Schneidewind retired after 28 years at SDR3 and SWR1.

Participation in radio documentaries

• Thomas Gaevert : Your show, young people! The story of Radio DT64. 2003, accessed on March 16, 2019 (Speaker: Günter Schneidewind). 

Publications

• Der Große Schneidewind 1. Rock and pop stories. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86351-018-3 .
• The great wind of cutting. Hits & Stories. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86351-456-3 .

Web links

• Günter Schneidewind on swr.de
• Günter Schneidewind's website (with many photos)
• RadioXtra: SDR 3 and youth radio DT64 - Top 2000 D 08/25/1990 (Holtmann / Schneidewind) on YouTube , July 16, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2019 (Günter Schneidewind and Matthias Holtmann together in the studio moderating the Top 2000 D ) .
• SWR1 Baden-Württemberg: Top 2000 D: The great Schneidewind remembers on YouTube , October 15, 2014, accessed on March 16, 2019 (Günter Schneidewind talks about his trip from the GDR to Stuttgart to the Top 2000 D ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Saying goodbye to retirement. In: swr.de. July 18, 2018, accessed on March 16, 2019 (with video, 29:21 min.).