Wolfgang Schneider (art historian)

Wolfgang Schneider (born March 21, 1938 in Stolp ; † April 4, 2003 in southern France ) was a German historian , weightlifter and author .

Live and act

Schneider was the third son of a master cleaner and an insurance salesman. After graduating from high school in 1956, he became a multiple GDR master and multiple record holder in weightlifting. From 1959 to 1962 he trained as a journalist, from 1962 to 1966 he studied history at a distance in Berlin , Leipzig and Jena , graduating as a historian. From 1967 he worked as a freelance journalist and was mainly active for the foreign press service, from 1970 freelance writer. After studying art history in Weimar in 1985, attestation as an art historian .

Schneider died in a car accident in southern France in 2003.

Publications

Wolfgang Schneider published over 70 works mainly on cultural and literary historical issues. Some works appeared in ten languages ​​and totaled millions of copies. He also wrote several scripts for numerous international exhibitions and works for radio, film and television.

• Children's doctor. From the life of Yusuf Ibrahim . 1971
• Berlin - a cultural history in pictures and documents . 1980
• Goethe in Weimar. A chapter of German cultural history . 1986
• The new trace of the Amber Room. Diary of a manhunt . 1994
• Leipzig. Forays through cultural history . 1995
• Soldiers for Hitler. The book for the ARD series . 1998
• The Waffen SS . 1999
• Everyday life under Hitler . 2000
• Apocalypse Vietnam . 2000
• Women under the swastika . 2001
• The encyclopedia of laziness . 2003

Honors

• In 1975 Schneider received the Weimar City Prize for Literature and Art .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Schneider in the catalog of the German National Library