StZ from the 12.9.1995, from Werner Birkenmaier. Originally, the teacher's son wanted to become a pastor. Then he did his doctorate on the poet Schubart, turned his back on the church and became a journalist. In the war he was a wine representative and stationmaster, after the war editor of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung". >> read more

StZ from 15.2.1948. Suppose your mentally disturbed stepfather (whom you had long considered a genius) had murdered all members of a neighboring family except for one and set fire to their home. Would you not consider yourself obligated to be especially nice to those who remained, even if you did not like you? >> read more

There is a considerable number of Germans whose curriculum vitae and life's work have exemplary significance for the first half of this century. But for a few, the fabric of that time becomes so prominent and sharply visible as in Erich Schairer, who died in the year 1956 at the age of sixty-nine. >> read more

On the 2. October 1946 appeared in the feature section of the Stuttgarter Zeitung for the first time the heading "Five minutes German". I wanted to use it, if only in the form of a sigh of shock (because the paper was precious), to write the annoyance about the bad German of the contemporaries of the soul, which I suffered professionally on a daily basis. >> read more

On the 2. October 1946 appeared in the feature section of the Stuttgarter Zeitung for the first time the heading "Five minutes German". I wanted to use it, if only in the form of a sigh of shock (because the paper was precious), to write the annoyance about the bad German of the contemporaries of the soul, which I suffered professionally on a daily basis. There was really no lack of material for this small language corner ... >> read more

by Reinhard Appel. His basic chord was socialist, but the variations that developed were a liberal composition. It would not be possible to press the Democrat and Republican Erich Schairer into a partisan template ... >> read more

A publisher and journalist like Erich Schairer is hardly conceivable today. His credo was: fight against church, capitalism, for public service and justice. At the beginning of 1937, the Nazis imposed a prohibition on his profession and 1946 became co-editor of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung". On the 21. By October 2012, he would have been 125 years old. FROM KURT OESTERLE >> read more

5.10.1987, by Martin Hohnecker. When he had lost 1919 because of socialist sentiment the editor-in-chief at the Heilbronn "Neckar-Zeitung", he founded his own newspaper: the pacifist radical-democratic, abstaining for years "Sunday newspaper". When 1936 urged the National Socialists out of the editorial board, he put a job application in this very journal and then got involved as a wine representative. >> read more

The blue-white-red tricolor fluttered on the cathedral. Because just the day before the opening of the Europa Council, the 25. November 1952, the Strasbourg people happened to have something else to celebrate: the day of liberation and the inauguration of a memorial to their liberator, General Leclerc ... >> read more