by Wolf Schneider · Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442115365
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«Deutsch für Profis» is Wolf Schneider's style guide, published by Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH in paperback (268 pages, in German).
Wolf Schneider, journalist and language critic, analyzes in this book the most common vices of written German in the press and proposes rules for achieving a clear, precise and comprehensible style. Through examples taken from real media, he attacks jargon and affectation and defends professional writing that respects the reader.
1986 edition from the Goldmann Stern-Bücher collection, with subtitle «Wege zu gutem Stil» and illustrations by Luis Murschetz.
Will interest journalists, editors and readers with a good level of German who want to improve their written 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.
