Herbert Schneider (writer)

Herbert Schneider, 2008

Herbert Schneider (born October 8, 1922 in Munich-Schwanthalerhöhe ) is a German journalist and author .

Life

After graduating from high school, Herbert Schneider had to do military service. He was unable to realize his dream of becoming a cyclist after 1945. So he became a journalist and writer. From 1950 he worked as an editor and columnist at Münchner Merkur . At the age of 27, he became the youngest co-founder of the Munich Tower Writers' Association . Schneider also worked as a columnist for tz for many years . Over the years he wrote more than 5000 columns, stories, glosses, commentaries, poems, aphorisms and was one of the first dialect authors to publish about the milieu, color and soul of the Munich people with spirit, wit and gentle irony.

Schneider now lives in Ebersberg and has a son and a daughter.

Works (selection)

• 1958 Children of Bavaria: Bavarian poems . Münchener Zeitungsverlag, Munich
• 1961 Karl May in leather trousers . Lama-Verlag, Munich
• 1978 Maxl and Muschi , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3138-6
• 1981 The Nibelungs in Bavaria , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3187-4
• 1981 Almarausch and Wadlstrümpf , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3187-4
• 1981 D 'Münchner Rass' , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3187-4
• 1981 Bairisches Federspiel , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3187-4
• 1981 Poems , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3187-4
• 1982 Ballads and Co , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3209-9
• 1982 What happened in the head of Bavaria , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-7787-3215-3
• 1983 Cross- country skiers live longer with Ernst Hürlimann, Verlag J. Berg, Munich, ISBN 3-7634-0479-1
• 1995 Bavarian lives with Hermut G. Geipel, Bayerland, Dachau, ISBN 978-3-8925-1204-2
• 2000 open Bavarian pages , Turmschreiber Verlag, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 3-930156-64-4
• 2000 Munich life with Hermut G. Greipel, Bayerland, Dachau, ISBN 978-3-8925-1296-7
• 2002 Aus dem Schneider , Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim, ISBN 3-475-53352-9
• 2009 : 1111 × short and Bavarian , Verlag W. Ludwig, Pfaffenhofen, ISBN 978-3-938575-11-6
• 2013 Mia san Bayern , 4th edition, Rosenheimer Verlag, Rosenheim, ISBN 978-3-4755-4167-4
• 2013 A bsondra day, sayings and stories for the Christmas season , 11th edition, Bayerland, Dachau, ISBN 978-3-8925-1443-5
• 2016 Lauter Viechereien , Bayerland, Dachau, ISBN 978-3-8925-1484-8
• 2017 Tailored throughout the year , Bayerland, Dachau, ISBN 978-3-8925-1494-7

Discography

• 1985 Custom Made , United Sounds (vinyl long-play record)
• 2016 Das Schönste vom Schwager , (CD), TeBiTo Musik- und Hörbuchverlag, Pliening, ISBN 978-3-946070-02-3

Awards

• 1962 Literature Prize of the City of Munich
• 1969 Bavarian poet thaler
• 1970 Ludwig Thoma Medal
• 1986 Ernst Hoferichter Prize
• 1990 Sigi Sommer Literature Prize
• 2011 Bavarian Order of Merit

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1. ↑ Herbert Schneider in the Bavarian State Library ( Memento from September 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Bavarian Order of Merit for Dr. Martha Schad and Herbert Schneider ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Circle of Friends of Tower Scribers, August 16, 2011

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical information
• Herbert Schneider (writer) in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )