Richard Schade

fare qell old fellow requiscas in pace lux perpetua luceat tibi

I just received news of this now. I loved Richard's professional and laid back manner as Chair of the German Department at UC. He made me feel very good to be a Germanist. My condolences to his family and relatives.

I second what Herman has written. I am equally forever grateful for Dr. Schade's support and guidance in my most exciting years as an exchange student from Hamburg. My Cincinnati years would not have been the same without him. Dr. Schade had been particularly helpful in the first weeks of transition and settling in, and of course academically throughout my studies making it possible to extend my stay and receive my MA from UC. I enjoyed his classes a great deal and his sense of humor in and...

I am so saddened learn of Richard's passing. My sincerest condolences to Julia and to Silke and Kristen and families. I am shocked to hear of this loss. I will forever be grateful to have had Dr. Schade as my Doktorvater. In the 20 plus years post UC, Richard was always so gracious in maintaining correspondence and continuing in various professional collaborations. What a tremendous loss for his family and friends, for the UCinti community, for his former students, and for the community of...

I am writing this for his daughters, one of you I think I met a number of years ago. I met your mother in August of 1966, when I was living with the Brötz family in Hahnstaetten, in an attempt to learn the language better in preparation for a year at the Freie Universität. Your mother and her family spent every August in Hahnstaetten. So, we were your grandparents, your mother and her two sisters, Ludwig, Helga, Ulrich, and Elke, along with Opa and Goda, plus me in that relatively small...

Dr. Schade,

Thank you for sharing your love of Germany, German literature, and German culture with your students at the University of Cincinnati and at Xavier University. We will miss your infectious enthusiasm, caring guidance, and legendary harmonica renditions.

While I will also remember Dr. Schade as a man of great integrity, wit and kindliness, have fond memories as his student and later his colleague, I am especially grateful for our numerous chance meetings in the produce section of St. Bernard's Kroger. He always greeted me with a twinkle in his eye, stories of his children, sometimes pictures, but I noticed that after the passing of his first wife Heike, he seemed a bit more pensive. He noticed the wedding ring on my finger and asked how I met...