Barbara Wotjak

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Barbara Wotjak (born November 13, 1940 in Reblin ; † April 7, 2017 ) was a German linguist . As a professor for German as a foreign language , she mainly taught at the Herder Institute at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig and at the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig . Her main areas of work included lexicology , lexicography and phraseology .

Life

Barbara Wotjak was born on November 13, 1940 in Reblin. In 1945 he was resettled from Pomerania via Mecklenburg to Thuringia . After attending primary school in Hainrode and Eisenach , she passed her Abitur at the Luther High School in Eisenach in 1959. From 1959 to 1961 she completed a teaching degree for French-German at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. She then studied until 1964 Romance (French, Portuguese) and German . After completing her diploma, she worked for one year as an editorial assistant and speaker in the Latin America (Brazil) section at Radio Berlin International . From 1965 to 1976 Barbara Wotjak worked as a university teacher at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig in the field of aspirant training and during this time passed an additional educational university exam. From 1976 to 1980, Gerhard Helbig was a regular trainee . She also accompanied her husband, Gerd Wotjak , to Cuba, where she taught Spanish and German at the University of Havana and the University of Education for Foreign Languages ​​in Havana.

In 1981 she did her doctorate in Dr. phil. in linguistics at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig on the subject of "Investigations into German verbs of conveyance taking into account selected Spanish equivalents" with the predicate magna cum laude. The habilitation followed in 1989 with the thesis "On the structure of content and expression of verbal phraseolexeme in system and text". For this font she was awarded the Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz Prize of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig in recognition of outstanding achievements in training and research. In 1990 she obtained the Venia legendi for the field of German as a foreign language / linguistics , whereupon she taught as a lecturer at the Herder Institute until 1992 and also held seminars at the University of Saarbrücken . In the years from 1991 to 1998 and 2001 to 2003, Barbara Wotjak was appointed deputy director of the Herder Institute at the University of Leipzig, after previously working as a research assistant and senior assistant. There she headed the department for advanced training / courses in the field of German as a foreign language. From 1992 until her retirement in 2006, she held a professorship for German as a foreign language specializing in lexicology at the Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig. Furthermore, as part of the university renewal, she was a member of personnel, selection and appointment committees at the University of Leipzig. In addition to her teaching and research responsibilities, she also managed projects funded by the Foreign Office for many years . From 1998 to 2001 and 2003 to 2005 Barbara Wotjak was the managing director of the Herder Institute. From 2008 she was deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Deutsch als Fremdsprache".

Functions and memberships (selection)

  • Board member in the association interDaF eV at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig (1992–2006)
  • Section leader at the 10th International German Teachers' Conference (August 1993 in Leipzig)
  • Project manager "Window: DaF distance learning cycle for students from Poland and the Czech Republic" (1993–1997)
  • Project manager "Impulse: DaF distance learning course for Polish business professionals" (1997-2001)
  • Reviewer work within the framework of a lecturer selection committee of the DAAD for Latin America and Africa (1999–2006)
  • University advisor in development cooperation for the DAAD with the Universidade Federal do Pará in Belém , Brazil (2008–2010)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the European Society for Phraseology (based in Zurich)
  • Member of the advisory board and deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" (since 2008)

Focus of work

Fonts (selection)

Monographs and exercise books

  • Investigations on the structure of content and expression of selected German verbs of conveying. Linguistic Studies, ZISW, Series A, H. 103, Berlin 1982 (Diss.)
  • Together with Manfred Richter: German phraseologisms. An exercise book for foreigners. Leipzig, Berlin, Munich 1993. Newly published in a slightly revised version as: Sage und Schreibe. German phraseologisms in theory and practice. Leipzig 1993 ISBN 3-324-00304-0
  • Verbal phraseolexeme in system and text. Niemeyer (Germanistische Linguistik 125 series), Tübingen 1992 (Habil.) ISBN 3-484-31125-8

Editing and project management

  • Project management: Distance learning cycle "Window" (DaF for learners with Polish / Czech mother tongue). H. 1–12, Verlag H. Schubert, Leipzig 1995/96/97/98
  • Project management: "Impulse" distance learning cycle (DaF for Polish business professionals). H. 1-5, Placet Publishing House, Warsaw 2001, 1977-2001
  • Guest editing of a number of the journal Fremdsprache Deutsch. H. 15/2, Klett, Stuttgart 1996 - special issue on idioms and proverbs
  • Together with Bernd Skibitzki: Linguistics and German as a foreign language. Festschrift for Gerhard Helbig on his 70th birthday. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999

items

  • For the representation of the correlation between formal grammatical expression structure and propositional semantic content structure. In: DaF, H. 2, 1982, 103-107
  • Together with Gerd Wotjak : For the semantic microstructure analysis of selected German verbs. In: DaF, H. 3, 1983, 144-152
  • Feeling the phraseologism to the tooth. In: Approches, Journées d'études de l'APLV, Bordeaux 1985, 13-21
  • Aspects of a confrontational description of phraseolexemen German-Spanish. In: Linguistic Working Reports (LAB) H. 59, Leipzig 1987, 86-100
  • Phraseologisms in a comparison of languages. In: Gerd Wotjak, Antonio Regales (ed.): Studies on the comparison of languages ​​between German and Spanish. Valladolid 1988, 91-102
  • The gag justifies the means? Modifications and cross-linking of proverbs in the text. In: Sprachpflege, H. 9, Leipzig 1989, 125–129
  • Phraseolexeme in System and Text: Some Consequences for Foreign Language Teaching. In: Scientific contributions from the Karl Marx University Leipzig 1990, 81–83
  • Speech - "phrases" in "Wende" - speeches. In: DaF 1, 1991, 47-51
  • More questions than answers? Problem sketch (not only) on confrontational phraseology. In: Csaba Földes (ed.): German phraseology in the language system and use of language. Vienna 1992, 197–217
  • Fuchs, you stole it completely: On conspicuous networks of phraseologisms in the text type anecdote. In: Barbara Sandig (ed.): Studies on phraseology and parömiology. EUROPHRAS 92, Bochum 1994, 619-650
  • Together with Gerd Wotjak: Advertising for verbs? Considerations in the border area between lexicon and grammar. In: Heidrun Popp (ed.): German as a foreign language. At the sources of a subject. Munich 1995, 235-286
  • Sayings and proverbs. A book with seven seals? In: Fremdsprache Deutsch, Stuttgart 1996, H. 15/2, 4–9
  • Unidades fraseológicas en un diccionario de aprendizaje del alemán como lengua extranjera. In: Gerd Wotjak (ed.). Estudios de fraseología y fraseografía del español actual. Vervuert-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998, (Lingüística Iberoamericana, no. 6), 343-364
  • On textual networking of phraseologisms using the example of language jokes. In: Nicole Fernandez Bravo, Irmtraud Behr, Claire Rozier (eds.): Phraseme and typed speech. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1999, 51-63
  • Alteraciones cotextuales de los fraseologismos. In: Pamiies Bertrán Antonio, Luque Durán, Juan de Dios (eds.): Trabajos de lexicografía y fraseografía contrastivas. Series Collectae Universidad de Granada 2000, 119-136
  • Textbooks from the GDR - effect and aftermath: grammar. In: Gerd Antos , Ulla Fix , Ingrid Kühn (eds.): German language and communication experiences ten years after the "Wende". Frankfurt a. M. 2001, 155-169

Practice materials in magazines

  • Exercises with phraseological units. In: Sprachpraxis H. 6, 29–30, (1986)
  • Exercises on phraseologisms. In: Sprachpraxis H. 3, 25–27, (1988)
  • Proverbs hide and seek. In: Sprachpraxis H. 4, 26-27, (1988)
  • The proverbial on the threshold of the new year. In: Sprachpraxis H. 6, 24, (1988)
  • Learn by playing. In: Sprachpraxis H. 6, 26-27, (1989)

Reviews

  • Gerhard Helbig : Linguistics - Confrontation - Foreign language lessons. In: Foreign language teaching. Berlin 1982, 372-373
  • Gert Jäger , Albrecht Neubert (ed.): Equivalence in translation. Translation studies 5. In: DaF 5 (1984), 314–316
  • Gerhard Helbig: Valence - clauses - semantic cases - sentence models. Leipzig 1982. In: Fremdsprachunterricht 4 Berlin (1985), 208-209
  • Ernst Bartsch (ed.): Like the country, so the saying goes. Leipzig 1989, In: DaF 3 (1991), 187-188
  • Hans Hunfeld: Literally. Klett Edition Deutsch, Munich 1989, In: Fremdsprache Deutsch, H. 15/2 (1996), 9
  • Jarmo Korhonen (ed.): Studies on the phraseology of German and Finnish (I and II). Brockmeyer, Bochum 1999, In: DaF 3 (1999), 173-175
  • Marianne Schröder, Ulla Fix: General vocabulary of the GDR citizens: sorted according to subject groups and linguistically commented. Heidelberg 1997, In: DaF 4 (2000), 244-246
  • Mi-Ae Cheon: On the conception of a phraseological dictionary for foreign speakers. Tübingen 1998, In: DaF 3 (2001), 177-178

literature

  • Antje Heine: German as a Foreign Language. Contours and perspectives of a subject. Festschrift for Barbara Wotjak on her 65th birthday. Munich 2005 ISBN 978-3-89129-598-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Leipziger Volkszeitung from April 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Professor Catalog of the University of Leipzig / Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium (PDF; 6 kB) Edited by the Chair for Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  3. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b Prof. Dr. Barbara Wotjak - curriculum vitae The teachers at the Herder Institute introduce themselves. Retrieved August 15, 2014.
  6. ^ Membership of Committees ( Memento of November 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Research report 2000. Herder Institute. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wotjak, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, linguist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Reblin
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 2017