Do not say much but much, not fresh fish and fresh milk, but fresh fish and fresh milk. And not now, but from now on, so from the 21. September, not from 21. September… >> read more
Erich Schairer
A young bookshop assistant named Josef Eberle offered a manuscript. I saw at once that he could do something that few writers can afford: the so-called little form. From then on, Tyll, which was Eberle's alias, was an employee of my "Sonntagszeitung". >> read more
If it had befallen him like GB Shaw to survive himself, then he would today be ninety years old, and the newspapers would bring articles about him: not because he Christoph Schrempf, but because he was ninety. At a very old age even uncomfortable contemporaries become venerable. >> read more
[StZ vom 31.12.1946] Professor Friedrich Wilhelm Förster, the well-known pedagogue and pacifist, had published an essay in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" in which he warned the Allies against trusting Germany and taking it into the circle of nations it has really seen its huge crime and regretted and morally improved ... >> read more
You ask me (a little curious, it seems to me), as it looked inside me during the Nazi era. Bad, I can tell you. I was torn in a back and forth between grief, shame and hatred ... >> read more
"Since I can no longer unite with my personal conviction, after my soon-to-be resignation from the local Amtsverwesung to take the time I recklessly accepted obligation for the service to the Evangelical Church of Württemberg, I ask that Consistory, to want to dismiss [...] me from this service. >> read more
Goethe, who may well be counted among the "godless", was a bitter hatred of the bells. He called it an "unbearable child"; he speaks in Faust of the "damned ringing", of the "damned Bim-Bam-Bimmel". >> read more
In the Tübingen Protestant theological seminary, the "Stift", the students of theology were once asked the task of answering a semester examination (I believe spring 1907): "How far is anthropomorphism justified in the conception of God?" (Anthropomorphism means: imagination God in human form). >> read more
If my uncle used to warn me against the Social Democrats, he used to say that they were stupid people who wanted to share everything and did not think that after ten or twenty years, there would be rich and poor again, because it would be lazy and Hardworking give. >> read more
A worker among the readers of the Sonntags-Zeitung wrote to me a long time ago a letter that concludes with the words: Do you believe in socialism? If so, when are we ready for socialism? >> read more