Christian Schnabel

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Christian Schnabel (* 13th May, 1878 in Regensburg; + 29th January, 1936 in Munich), actually Christian Leberecht Schnabel, was a German designer and inventor.

[edit] Biography

Born as a son of a German smith and a Russian seamstress Schnabel was at times because of his original and innovative, but often as not very suitably for everyday life classified inventions, a well known figure of the Bavarian public life. This made him, who received his education in his fathers smith near Regensburg, an ideal victim of satire - even Ludwig Thoma led in one of his fake letters of Josef Filser on him; from time to time Schnabel himself was asked to appear in smaller Cabaret-Shows and even a meeting with famous author Erich Kästner was reward for his dubious fame as a chronically fruitless inventor. Kästner was impressed by Schnabel and published after his death a poem about him in the book Dr. Erich Kästners lyrische Hausapotheke (1936). "The easy is the most difficult" is a famous word of Schnabel and it also became the principle of his life: Schnabel mostly experimented on everyday objects trying to improve them. Especially his simplistic food cutleries, which reached from a mixture between fork and knife up to forks with only one prong became virtually legendary. Earning laughs for such inventions in his lifetime, today there are in more extensive cutlery sets not seldom found parts which are not unlike the Schnabel-Inventions around the turn of the century.

[edit] Literatur about Schnabel

• Erfinder-Rundschau . München : Erfinder-Rundschau, 1913 -1914
• Rainer Thor : Humor ins Haus . Hamburg-Poppenbüttel : Humor ins Haus Bd. 340., Erfinder sind oft grosse Kinder, 1962