Bastian Sick

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Bastian Sick (born July 17, 1965 in Lübeck ) is a German journalist , author and entertainer , who became known in particular as the author of the "language care " column onion fish and the resulting book series The dative is the genitive his death .

Live and act

Bastian Sick with Susanne Pätzold , Jochen Busse and Konrad Beikircher recording the Bastian Sick show for WDR in the old waiting room in Cologne on June 11, 2008
Udo Jürgens and Bastian Sick at the presentation of the CD Lieder Full Poetry on February 10, 2007 in Berlin
Bastian Sick during his stage tour Nur aus Jux und Tolleranz on February 4, 2012 in Mainz
Bastian Sick during his stage tour Nur aus Jux und Tolleranz on February 4, 2012 in Mainz

Bastian Sick grew up in Ratekau near Lübeck and attended the Leibniz Gymnasium in Bad Schwartau . There he graduated from high school in 1984. After completing his military service , he studied history and Romance studies in Hamburg with a Magister Artium degree . During his studies he worked as a proofreader and translator for the Carlsen publishing house in Hamburg . this strongly influenced his feeling for spelling and punctuation. In 1995, Sick came to Spiegel-Verlag . There he first worked as a documentation journalist in the photo archive; In 1999 he joined the editorial team of Spiegel Online . From 2003 he became known as the author of the column onion fish , in which he treated doubtful cases of grammar, spelling, punctuation and style.

The book series Der Dativ ist das Genitive seine Tod , published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch , arose from the onion fish column . The onion fish was the first German internet column that became a bestseller in book form. In this series, six volumes were published from 2004 to 2015. The first three volumes had a total circulation of over three million copies by February 2007. In 2008, Sick published the book Happy Aua - A picture book from the maze of the German language, the first volume of another book series in which he presented selected linguistic curiosities. In 2017, the sixth Happy-Aua -Band was released under the title Hit the devil a bargain . Board and computer games as well as annual calendars and set-up books were also derived from the content of the book series The dative is the genitive being his death and the Happy-Aua books.

Sick has completed several reading tours in which he also appeared as an entertainer. On March 13, 2006, Sick held the “largest German lesson in the world” in front of 15,000 spectators in the Kölnarena . He was supported by Thomas Bug , Joachim Hermann Luger , Jürgen Rüttgers , Frank Plasberg , Frank Rost , Cordula Stratmann and Annette Frier , among others . Recordings of this event as well as recordings of his stage tours were published as audio books. In 2007, at the invitation of Sony-BMG , Sick released the CD Lieder full of poetry , a homage to the musician and singer Udo Jürgens .

In 2008, Sick briefly received his own television show on WDR . With artists such as Jochen Busse , Konrad Beikircher and Susanne Pätzold , Sick presented curiosities from everyday German language in three 30-minute programs. In 2009 Sick left Spiegel-Verlag and started his own business as an author and lecturer. In 2011 and 2012 he toured Germany with his program Nur aus Jux und Tolleranz . At the invitation of the Goethe Institute , the German Schools and similar educational institutions, Bastian Sick has also performed numerous appearances abroad, including in Montreal ( Canada ), Hungary , Spain , Portugal , South Tyrol ( Italy ), England and Egypt . In 2008 he went on a South America tour with eight appearances in six countries.

Bastian Sick lives and works in Hamburg and since 2014 in Niendorf ( Schleswig-Holstein ).

reception

Sicks books and columns are on the one hand perceived as entertaining and instructive and are sometimes used in school lessons. The fact that he is well received by a wide audience is often justified in the press by the fact that he can explain in an understandable and humorous way how German grammar works. On the other hand, Sick's books are criticized by linguists such as Peter Eisenberg , Theodor Ickler , Vilmos Ágel and Anatol Stefanowitsch , Rainer Wimmer and Ulrich Püschel as being too normative and sometimes factually incorrect. Sicks works are not suitable for school lessons. The linguist André Opinion published a book in which he systematically proves Bastian Sick's linguistic errors. After Karsten Rinas had described inconsistencies in this book, among others , Opinion published a revised version of the book. Claudius Seidl finds in his criticism in the FAZ : “ The onion fish stinks from the head. "

In Lower Saxony's core curriculum for upper secondary school from 2009, Sicks glosses were suggested as a possible reading for the compulsory module “Tendencies in Contemporary Language”, admittedly in connection with André Opiner's book, which sharply criticizes Sicks glosses from a linguistic point of view. These texts serve as examples for one of four “text groups” that can be dealt with in this module, namely “texts that depict the controversy between public and journalistic language criticism and linguistic positions”.

Fonts

  • The dative is the genitive his death. A guide through the maze of the German language . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03448-0 . (Audiobook: ISBN 3-89813-400-8 )
  • The dative is the genitive his death. Episode 2. News from the maze of the German language . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03606-8 . (Audiobook: ISBN 3-89813-445-8 )
  • The dative is the genitive his death. Episode 3. Even more news from the maze of the German language . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-462-03742-0 . (Audiobook: ISBN 3-89813-566-7 )
  • Happy ouch. A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03903-0 .
  • Happy Aua 2. A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04028-9 .
  • The dative is the genitive his death. Episode 4. The very latest from the maze of the German language . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04164-4 .
  • Fun is gratinated here. A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-462-04223-8 .
  • How good is your German? The big test. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04365-5 .
  • The dative is the genitive his death. Episode 5 . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04495-9 .
  • We like to fry you! A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-462-04574-1 .
  • Make yourself at home. A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-462-04700-4 .
  • The dative is the genitive his death. Episode 6 . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04803-2 .
  • Hit the devil for a bargain. A picture book from the maze of the German language. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-05029-5 .
  • How good is your German? 2. The new big test. Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 2019, ISBN 978-3-462-05204-6 .

Audio books

  • The dative is death to the genitive . Read by Rudolf Kowalski , Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89813-400-2 (reading, 2 CDs, 153 min.)
  • The dative is the genitive's death, episode 2 . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2005, ISBN 978-3-89813-445-3 (reading, 2 CDs, 151 min.)
  • The dative is the genitive's death, episode 3 . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89813-566-5 (reading, 2 CDs, 146 min.)
  • Bastian Sick Live . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89813-646-4 (live reading, 1 CD, 76 min.)
  • "Happy Aua" tour 2008 . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89813-737-9 (live reading, 1 CD, 73 min.)
  • The dative is the genitive's death, episode 4 . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89813-881-9 (reading, 2 CDs, 159 min.)
  • The dative is the genitive's death, episode 5 . Read by Bastian Sick, Der Audio Verlag (DAV), Berlin, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86231-273-3 (reading, 2 CDs, 168 min.)

CD singles

  • To fall in love . 2013.
  • No other language . 2014.
  • Goethe would today still be alive . 2014.

Honors

  • 2004: Sprachwahrer of the year of the German language world
  • 2005: Honorary membership in the German Language Association
  • 2006: Guinness certificate for the world record on “The largest language lesson being taught at the Kölnarena in Cologne, Germany, on March 13, 2006”
  • 2010: Awarding of six golden books for a total of four million copies sold by the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house

literature

  • Manfred Kaluza: "The layman is the linguist's enemy". Comments on the dispute over Bastian Sicks language columns. In: Information German as a Foreign Language. 35th vol., No. 4, 2008, pp. 432-442 ( online ).
  • Vilmos Ágel: Bastian Sick and the grammar. An unequal duel. In: Information German as a Foreign Language. 35th year, issue 1, 2008, pp. 64-84 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Bastian Sick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Bastian Sick  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "language carer" , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, issue 23/2006
  2. ↑ Bastian Sick: Foreword to Spirou & Fantasio. ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, 1 MB) Carlsen-Verlag, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-551-77883-3 . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bastiansick.de
  3. ↑ Bastian Sick: Guide through the maze of the German language. Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7607-8738-1 .
  4. ↑ Carola Padtberg: The onion fish his world record . In: Schulspiegel, March 14, 2006.
  5. ↑ Songs full of poetry. Udo Jürgens, January 16, 2007, accessed October 28, 2013 .
  6. ↑ The Bastian-Sick-Show: excerpt from 27.09. Spiegel Online , August 26, 2008, accessed October 28, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Comedy experience with grammar lesson: Just out of joke and tolerance. Altkreis-Halle.net, October 14, 2010, accessed on October 28, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Bastian Sick: South America Tour 2008. Bastian Sick, October 19, 2008, accessed on October 28, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Eva Menasse: "Die Fackel" on the Internet - Hell, that's Kraus. In: No. 10. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 12, 2007, p. 31 , accessed on October 28, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Manfred Kaluza: "The layman is the linguist's enemy". Comments on the dispute over Bastian Sicks language columns.
  11. ↑ Vilmos Ágel: Bastian Sick and the grammar. An unequal duel.
  12. ^ André Opinion: Sick of Sick? A foray into language as an answer to the "onion fish". Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86599-047-1 .
  13. ↑ Karsten Rinas: Language, style and strong sayings. Bastian Sick and his critics. Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-650-24659-2 .
  14. ^ André Opinion: Sick of Sick? A foray into language as an answer to the "onion fish". Extended and revised edition. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86599-219-2 .
  15. ↑ The onion fish stinks from the head FAZ, November 5, 2006.
  16. ↑ Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture (Ed.): Core curriculum for grammar school - upper level, comprehensive school - upper level, technical high school, evening high school, college . Hannover 2009, p. 50 ( online ).
  17. ↑ 6x gold for 4 million. Bastian Sick, February 10, 2010, accessed October 28, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Sick, Bastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, non-fiction author and language critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck