by Wolf Schneider · Rowohlt Verlag GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783498063931
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«Speak German!: Warum Deutsch manchmal besser ist» is Wolf Schneider's essay on anglicisms, published by Rowohlt Verlag in hardcover (in German).
Wolf Schneider denounces the flood of anglicisms invading advertising, business and the media in Germany. Against loanwords like Countdown or Fastfood, he argues that German is often the more precise option and proposes native alternatives. The author calls for separating the useful from the superfluous without rejecting English outright.
The work was published on January 18, 2008 and consists of 192 pages.
For readers interested in the German language and the debate on the influence of English on contemporary German.
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.
