He is considered one of the most courageous journalists of the Weimar Republic, who purposefully countered his power of speech and his wit >> read more
Category Archive: Epilogue
Testimonies of and about Erich Schairer from the epoch after the Second World War
"Private advertising is the main cause of the entire decline of our press," said almost 100 years ago, on January 4, 1925, the journalist Erich Schairer, who became editor of the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" after the war. […] Dietrich Heissenbüttel reports in the KONTEXT weekly newspaper about the diversity of the press in Stuttgart in the 1920s, when there were still more than twenty daily newspapers there. >> read more
On September 17, 1945, three Germans received the license for an independent newspaper: Henry Bernhard, Karl Ackermann and the same radio man from Radio Stuttgart - Josef Eberle. >> read more
The library director Hans Ulrich Eberle has compiled more than four hundred objects for his most extensive exhibition so far. This mosaic does not just show the contours of a newspaper man. It provides an insight into the Württemberg journalism between 1920 and 1960 and Schairer's share in it. Upright journalistic walk: here he can be visited. >> read more
[1967] It has been more than eleven years since we gave Erich Schairer the last escort at the Stuttgart Forest Cemetery. Our circle of old Blaubeurs seminarians from the years 1903 / 05 has since become smaller ... >> read more
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
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