Arno Ruoff

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Linguist Arno Ruoff

Arno Ruoff (born June 26, 1930 ; † 2010 in Wolfenhausen ) was a German linguist . He was considered to be the best expert on the spoken language in Baden-Württemberg . He had earned this award through the immense number of interviews with speakers of all ages and classes since the 1950s in Baden-Württemberg, Bavarian Swabia and Liechtenstein .

Life

For Arno Ruoff, the beginning of his preoccupation with the dialects of southwest Germany is inextricably linked with the name Eberhard Zwirner . When he started to record the German dialects and colloquial German on tapes in the early 1950s , Arno Ruoff was right there. From these beginnings, the "Tübingen Language Center in Southwest Germany", founded and directed by Arno Ruoff, later emerged. Little by little, a good 2,000 recordings from more than 500 locations came together. Today they are summarized in the Arno-Ruoff-Archive , which is part of the archive of everyday cultures of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT . The building on Biesinger Strasse with the Arno-Ruoff-Archiv burned down in connection with the loss of archive material in March 2017.

In 1973 - after 20 years of voice recording - Arno Ruoff founded the "Idiomatica" series, and in order to methodically relieve all subsequent work, he wrote the first volume himself. “Basics and methods of studying spoken language” - so the title - has become a standard work. In the following decades this first Idiomatica band was to be followed by 16 more. Today, more than 120 publications can be traced back to the Tübingen office. This number alone indicates the importance of the “Tübingen School” under Arno Ruoff for dialect research .

Awards

  • 1994 Johann Andreas Schmeller Prize
  • 1999 Ludwig Uhland Prize
  • 2001 Honorary doctorate from the University of Bayreuth

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Arno Ruoff: Basics and methods of studying spoken language. Introduction to the "Idiomatica" series with a catalog of the evaluated tape recordings. Niemeyer Tübingen 1973 (= Idiomatica 1). ISBN 3-484-10146-6
  • Arno Ruoff: Frequency dictionary of spoken language. Sorted by parts of speech, alphabetically, declining alphabetically and by frequency. With the collaboration of Harald Fuchs, Bernhard Gersbach, Rainer Graf, Simone Thiers. Niemeyer Tübingen 1981. 2nd edition 1990 (= Idiomatica 8). ISBN 3-484-10317-5
  • Arno Ruoff: Dialects in Baden-Württemberg. Supplement to the audio cassette with transcriptions, comments and a language card. Edited by the Württemberg regional picture office. Stuttgart 1983.
  • Arno Ruoff: Everyday Texts I. Transcriptions of tape recordings from Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian Swabia, with two cards. Tübingen 1984 (= Idiomatica 10).
  • Arno Ruoff: Everyday Texts II. Transcriptions of tape recordings from Baden-Württemberg, Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein, with two cards. Tübingen 1985 (= Idiomatica 11).
  • Arno Ruoff: Field name book Baden-Württemberg. Field names in official cards. Edited on the basis of preliminary work by Karl Bohnenberger and Helmut Dölker with the help of Konrad Kunze. Published by the Baden-Württemberg Land Surveyor's Office. Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-89021-566-1
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of Vorarlberg. A cross-section of the country's dialects. With a catalog of the sound archive of the Vorarlberg dialects (writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 3). Graz 1998.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the northern Oberland (writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 3). Graz 2000.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the Montafon. (Writings of the Vorarlberg State Library 7). Graz 2003.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the Vorderwald. (Writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 9). Graz 2004.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the Innerwald (writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 10). Graz 2004.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the Vorarlberger Allgäu (writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 8). Graz 2005.
  • Arno Ruoff / Eugen Gabriel: The dialects of the southern lowlands (writings of the Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 2). Graz 2008.
  • Arno Ruoff: Valley and Mountain - People and Prince: Liechtenstein in 50 conversations. Tübingen 2009.

Reviews

  • Hans Kuhn: Verbal 1 and r formations in Swiss German. Frauenfeld 1961 (= contributions to Swiss-German dialect research 11). In: Kratylos IX (1964), pp. 49-53.
  • Fritz Rahn: The Swabian people and their dialect. Contributions to the Swabian problem. Stuttgart 1962. In: Germanistik 4 (1963), p. 403 f.
  • Erika Bauer: Neckarsteinach and Darsberg, Bergstrasse district. Göttingen 1961 (= phonetic library of German dialects. 23/24.) In: Germanistik 4 (1963), p. 27.
  • Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland. Founded by Heinrich Baumgartner and Rudolf Hotzenköcherle. In collaboration with Konrad Lobeck, Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb and with the participation of Paul Zinsli, edited by Rudolf Hotzenköcherle, continued by Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb, Paul Zinsli. Volume I-VII. Bern 1962. In: Phonetica 2/3 (1963), pp. 140-160.
  • Helmut Dölker: field names of the city of Stuttgart. The names of the city center and the districts of Berg, Gablenberg and Heslach. Reprint of the 1933 edition, supplemented by 41 illustrations and 2 maps (research and reports on folklore in Baden-Württemberg 6). Stuttgart 1982. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 44 (1985), pp. 416-418.
  • Eduard Nübling: Studies and reports on the history, dialect and name research of Bavarian Swabia. Commemoration for the 80th birthday of the author. Edited by Wolfgang Zorn and Pankraz Fried. (Publications of the Swabian Research Foundation at the Commission for Bavarian State History, Series 1: Studies on the History of Bavarian Swabia, Volume 16). Augsburg 1988. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 49 (1990), p. 500.
  • Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland. Founded by Heinrich Baumgartner and Rudolf Hotzenköcherle. In collaboration with Konrad Lobeck, Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb and with the participation of Paul Zinsli, edited by Rudolf Hotzenköcherle, continued by Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb, Paul Zinsli. Volume I-VII. Bern and Tübingen 1962-1993. In: Montfort 47 (1995), pp. 68-76.
  • Hubert Klausmann, Konrad Kunze, Renate Schrambke: Small dialect atlas. Alemannic and Swabian in Baden-Württemberg (= topics of regional studies 6th series of publications from the Alemannic Institute Freiburg im Breisgau). Bühl / Baden 1993, 2nd revised edition 1994. In: Zeitschrift für Württembergische Landesgeschichte 54 (1995), pp. 485f.
  • Linguistic Atlas of German-speaking Switzerland. Founded by Heinrich Baumgartner and Rudolf Hotzenköcherle. In collaboration with Konrad Lobeck, Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb and with the participation of Paul Zinsli, edited by Rudolf Hotzenköcherle, continued by Robert Schläper, Rudolf Trüb, Paul Zinsli. Volume VIII: Wortgeographie V. Tübingen, Basel 1997. In: Montfort 52 (2000), p. 314f.

Editing

  • Idiomatica. Publications of the Tübingen office "Language in Southwest Germany". Edited by Arno Ruoff in conjunction with Hermann Bausinger, Werner Besch, Walter Haas and Otmar Werner. Vol. 1-18. Tübingen 1973-1997.
  • Arno Ruoff (ed.): Folk traditions in Württemberg. Flowers from the conference essays 1899/1900 wound into a little wreath for Hermann Bausinger for his 60th birthday. Tuebingen 1986.
  • Arno Ruoff (ed.): The Franconian-Alemannic language border. Statics and dynamics of a transition area. Examined and presented in a project of the Ludwig Uhland Institute at the University of Tübingen. Volume I: Text volume. Volume II: Map tape. Tübingen 1992 (= Idiomatica 17).
  • Arno Ruoff and Peter Löffelad (eds.): Syntax and stylistics of everyday language. Contributions of the 12th workshop on Alemannic dialectology from 25. – 29. September 1996 in Ellwangen / Jagst. Tübingen 1997 (= Idiomatica 18).
  • Arno Ruoff and Silke Kohnert (eds.): The field names of the city of Nagold. Raised and presented in a project of the Ludwig-Uhland-Institut of the University of Tübingen. Nagold 1997.

literature

  • Hermann Bausinger (Ed.): Redeweisen. Aspects of spoken language. Ceremony for Arno Ruoff. Tübingen Association for Folklore 1990 (Studies and Materials 5). Tubingen 1990.
  • Rüdiger Harnisch: 'your ear always at hand.' About researchers and research in the field of spoken language. Speeches on the award of honorary doctorates from the University of Bayreuth to Eli Fischer-Jørgensen and Arno Ruoff as well as contributions to the accompanying scientific colloquium (Yearbook of the Johann Andreas Schmeller Society 2004). Bayreuth 2005.
  • Hubert Klausmann: Obituary for Doktor Doktor honoris causa Arno Ruoff. In: Montfort quarterly journal for the past and present of Vorarlbergs 63, 2011, pp. 5–6.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ludwig-Uhland-Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Irretrievably destroyed. The archives of the folklorists Ruoff and Bausinger were stored in the burned-out house. In: tagblatt.de. March 20, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ RUOFF, ARNO: Fundamentals and methods of studying spoken language. Introduction to the "Idiomatica" series with a catalog of the evaluated tape recordings. Tübingen 1973 (= Idiomatica 1).
personal data
SURNAME Ruoff, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1930
DATE OF DEATH 2010
Place of death Wolfenhausen