Erhard Agricola

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Erhard Agricola (born September 14, 1921 in Leipzig ; † January 24, 1995 there ) was a German linguist and writer .

life and work

He took part as a soldier in the Second World War (western campaign) and was taken prisoner of war. Agricola studied German, English and journalism in Leipzig from 1946 to 1951, received his doctorate there in 1954 ( Die Komik der Strickerschen Schwänke. Their cause, their form, their task ) and from 1951 to 1959 worked as a dictionary editor at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin. From 1960 he was a research group leader for theoretical linguistics and lexicology at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the same academy, and qualified as a professor in 1966 ( Syntactic Ambiguity (Polysyntacticity) in the Analysis of German and English ). He has published over 70 academic papers on text theory and linguistics. He was retired in 1986, but continued his work as a freelance writer in Markkleeberg .

Agricola wrote two novels in which he combined the elements of the detective novel , the historical novel and science fiction . In addition, both novels convey detailed observations of the everyday life of their time in the small German towns of Wernigerode and Altenburg . He also processed his memories of the war effort literarily. The novel based on it was published posthumously.

In the proceedings of the conference or in Commissioner Dabberkov's arduous investigation into the case of Dr. In the context of a historical novel set around 1930, Heinrich Oldenbeck describes an exciting criminal case, which is about a fantastic miracle drug that makes it easy to learn foreign languages, but has dramatic side effects. The second novel, Im Bann der Zaubermächtigen Kirke , takes place in the theater and again plays with elements from crime and SF . This time the action period is the 1970s in the GDR. A new kind of stage decoration, a laser projection that can seemingly make people disappear without a trace, provides the basis for a complex plot.

Scientific works (selection)

  • 1962: (as editor): Words and phrases. Dictionary for German usage
improved in 1976 as a lexicon of words and phrases
  • 1969: Semantic relations in text and in the system
  • 1977: (with Christiane Agricola): Words and Opposites. German antonyms . A collection of word pairs for the linguistic expression of dialectical and logical opposites
  • 1979: Text structure, text analysis, information core
  • 2003: Dictionary of Christian vocabulary. Edited from the estate and prepared for printing by Wilhelm Braun

Works of fiction

  • 1976: Conference report or Commissioner Dabberkov's arduous investigation into Dr. Heinrich Oldenbeck. Roman ( Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt, 559 pp., 3rd edition 1986)
  • 1987: Under the spell of the magical Kirke. Roman (Greifenverlag zu Rudolstadt, 432 pages, ISBN 3-7352-0054-0 )
  • 2001: Campaign with Miro (autobiographical novel, edited as a private print by Christiane Agricola)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Hartmut Mechtel: Erhard Agricola. In: Erik Simon, Olaf R. Spittel (ed.): The science fiction of the GDR. Authors and works. A lexicon. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-360-00185-0 , p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Agricola, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agrocola, Erhard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1995
Place of death Leipzig