Wolf Dietrich Schneider (7 May 1925 – 11 November 2022) was a German journalist, author, and language critic. After World War II, he learned journalism on the job with Die Neue Zeitung, a newspaper published by the US military government. He later worked as a correspondent in Washington for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, then as editor-in-chief and from 1969 manager of the publishing house of Stern. He moved to the Springer Press in 1971. From 1979 to 1995, he was the first director of a school for journalists in Hamburg, shaping generations of journalists. He wrote many publications about the German language, becoming an authority. He promoted a concise style, and opposed anglicisms and the German orthography reform.
Wolf Schneider
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Volʹf Šnajder, Polp'ŭ Syunaidŏ, Bolpeu-Syunaideo, and 10 others
ウォルフ シュナイダー, Wuerfu-Xunaida, Wu er fu Xu nai da, ヴォルフ シュナイダー, Bolpeu Syunaideo, Wolf Dietrich Schneider, Bol peu Syu na i deo, Wolf Schneider, Wuerfu Xunaida, Vorufu Shunaidā - Born:
- May 6, 1925
- Died:
- Nov. 10, 2022
