Harald Schmid (aphorist)

Photo from the back of his book "He who thinks aloud lives dangerously"

Harald Schmid (born October 22, 1946 in Tittmoning , Upper Bavaria, † January 20, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German aphorist .

Life

Schmid also worked as a welder and geriatric nurse . In 1970 he received a prize in a report competition organized by the working group for literature in the world of work . In 2010, Harald Schmid was the winner of the aphorism competition with 1st prize from the Friends of the German Aphorism Archive eV, Hattingen. The jury praised his contribution "Where many people agree, freedom of expression is in danger" as a "factually effective simple reference to the political necessity of nonconformity" . In addition, Harald Schmid was a small publisher of the Pegasus series in West Berlin between 1976 and 1984 .

Works

• There is ma z denga. , 1976.
• Approaches. , 1976.
• Sentences. 1977.
• Postscripts. Pit, Berlin 1979.
• Am ia Kashbal. 1982.
• Time of the ravens. Edition the conspecifics, 1992.
• Aphorisms from A – Z. 2001, ISBN 3-922299-38-5 .
• Small balance sheets. Pegasus, Berlin 2010.
• Lightning out of the blue. Pegasus, Berlin 2012.
• Harry Pegas epigrams. 2014, ISBN 978-3-922299-41-7 .
• Eisbleamezeit. Audio book. Stadthaus-Verlag, Blankenfelde 2014.
• If you think out loud, you live dangerously. 2016, ISBN 978-3-922299-45-5 .
• Glasses for the blind do not protect against glare. 2017, ISBN 978-3-922299-50-9 .
• "Can you write mate?" or How to Make a Working Writer. In: 68 - There weren't just demos. 2018, ISBN 978-3-922299-53-0 .
• Warnings to myself. Aphorisms 2019, ISBN 978-3-922299-57-8 .

Anthologies

• But you bear the risk. Reports from the world of work. ISBN 978-3-499-11447-2 .
• Group 61 - Workers' literature, literature from the world of work? ISBN 3-415-00163-6 .
• Project German Lessons 4, Language and Reality. ISBN 3-476-30011-0 .
• Say wasd magst - dialect poetry from Bavaria and Austria. ISBN 3-431-01699-5 .
• Haxn & Pinkel - dialect from German languages ​​fresh on the table. ISBN 3-7716-1418-X .
• Squid - Yearbook for Literature 8. ISBN 3-8031-0073-9 ,
• Squid - Yearbook for Literature 22. ISBN 3-8031-0121-2 .
• Fools out of joke and frenzy. ISBN 3-923488-00-9 .
• German aphorism competition "Thought Transfer". ISBN 978-3-8196-0757-8 .
• Goniac mysli. Wroklaw (Poland) ISBN 978-83-7432-748-0 .
• New German aphorisms. ISBN 978-3-942375-12-2 .

Editing

• with Jürgen Beckelmann : Please change, poems from Berlin. West Berlin 1980.

Web links

• Harald Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harald Schmid's aphorism page
• Obituary for Harald Schmid (born 1947): The long way to the short work - Berlin - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved March 29, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ News - short obituary for Harald Schmid. Retrieved on February 11, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ abebooks.fr
3. ↑ Genealogy with aphorists. ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )