by Wolf Schneider · Piper Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783492222167
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«Deutsch für Kenner. Die neue Stilkunde» is Wolf Schneider's style guide, published by Piper Verlag GmbH in paperback (396 pages, in German).
A reference work on contemporary German that examines the subtleties of the modern language and offers guidelines for writing correctly and with style. It approaches the language from the perspective of the demanding speaker, with criteria of lexical precision, syntax and register, and pays attention to frequent doubts in contemporary German.
Number 2216 in the Piper Series. The work was originally published in 1995; this edition, in 1998.
For advanced students of German, translators and professionals who write in this language and seek to refine their style.
Wolf Dietrich Schneider 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.
