100 Years ago, Erich Schairer - in the year 1919 - as well-staged editor-in-chief of the democratic Heilbronn "Neckarzeitung" because of reasonable suspicion of socialist and other radical tendencies of Mr. Publisher set the chair at the door. >> read more
Erich Schairer
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
As an opposition paper, the Sonntags-Zeitung was founded and has been run so far, and it also intends to persist in it. In short, it opposes the prevailing trend in the entire public life of the Fatherland, in the press, politics, economics and so-called "culture", which is usually understood by slogans such as nationalism, capitalism, clericalism and the like. >> read more
To my shame I must confess that during the war I had long believed in the official legend of its outbreak: Germany had been attacked by its enemies. Because I just could not imagine that such a "circled" country provoked Handel with his Umliegern. >> read more
Hail in the wreath, Harry Domela, Prince of Hohenzollern! It is true that the police caught you and the examining magistrate took care of you; but your glory overshadows your downfall, and your name is recorded, may you be a windy fellow. >> read more
... in the Budget Committee of the Reichstag you once again came across how expensive our political field service works. Especially because his officials, from Ambassador to Legation Secretary, receive fabulous salaries. >> read more
The budget for 1927 I've got is a folio brochure with some 1500 pages. It has twice the cubic capacity of a family Bible and, at 3,2 kilogram, about the weight of a newborn child. >> read more
... red writing on a white background: "Do not believe the dizziness!" This poster would have four weeks before the election Sunday to stick to every placard, every fence and every barn door in Germany and be renewed weekly on Saturday night from Saturday to Sunday. >> read more
There are Prussian, Wiirttemberg, Oldenburg, Lippe-Detmold and fourteen other citizens, but no Germans. If a foreigner wants to immigrate to us, he will have to choose one of the 18 countries, for better or for worse. >> read more
The camel and the snail once entered a bet who would be first on the river. The snail won; because the camel had taken the service route. >> read more