100 words of the century

100 words of the century was the title of a media network from 3sat , DeutschlandRadio Berlin , Süddeutsche Zeitung and Suhrkamp Verlag . In 1999, a collection of 100 words that were seen as particularly indicative of the 20th century was presented on public television and radio , in a national newspaper and in a book.

Organization and jury

The words were selected by a jury of prominent personalities from the fields of journalism , literature and television on the initiative of the 3sat editorial team at Kulturzeit . The project was sponsored by the Society for German Language e. V. scientifically supported.

The jury included:

Friedrich Dieckmann , literary scholar
Hans Helmut Hillrichs , head of ZDF's main editorial office for culture
Walter Jens , professor of rhetoric
Friedrich Küppersbusch , television presenter
Sigrid Löffler , head of the arts section at Die Zeit
Peter von Matt , literary scholar
Johannes Willms , head of the features section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung

list

in alphabetic order

literature

Wolfgang Schneider (Red.): 100 words of the century . Suhrkamp (st 2973), Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-39473-8 (with accompanying essays).
The Sprachdienst (journal of the Society for German Language e.V.) explained words on this list from year 43 (1999) in random order.

100 words of the century

contents

Organization and jury

list

See also

literature