Hans-Martin Gauger

Hans-Martin Gauger (born June 19, 1935 in Freudenstadt ) is a German Romance scholar , linguist and author .

life and work

Hans-Martin Gauger grew up in Saulgau in the French occupation zone . With a French scholarship, he attended the Collège Decourdemanche in Tübingen and then the Collège Pierre Brossolette in Constance . In 1954 he graduated from a German school in Biberach . Gauger studied Romance studies , German and English and philosophy in Tübingen, Leicester , Santander and Paris . Gauger received his doctorate in 1960 and passed his state examination in French and English in 1962 . Teachers included Walter Schulz and Mario Wandruszka . In 1968 he completed his habilitation and in 1969 was appointed university professor at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . From 1971 to 1974 he was deputy rector ( prorector ) in Freiburg. In 1981/82 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2000, Gauger resigned as a professor at the Albert Ludwig University.

Hans-Martin Gauger's research focuses on Romance philology, language theory and philosophical linguistics; It is particularly important to him to work on the path between literature and linguistics, and it is important to him to make his theses accessible to a broader, including non-academic, public - an achievement for which he was awarded the German Language Prize in 1984. His work is u. a. shaped by the friendship with the historian Golo Mann as well as the friendships and acquaintances with writers such as Martin Walser , Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt , Elazar Benyoëtz . Hans-Martin Gauger also devotes himself in particular to writers from southwest Germany, for example Johann Peter Hebel .

During his studies he joined the Normannia Tübingen association . Since 1982 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and was its vice-president from 1984 to 1989. 1996–98 he was tower clerk for the city of Deidesheim . In 1994 he received the Bavarian Literature Prize (Karl Vossler Prize) for scientific representations of literary rank.

He is also a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and since 2010 a member of the literature section of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . Hans-Martin Gauger is a literary critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and a member of committees for renowned literary prizes.

Gauger has been a member of the citizens' initiative Pro Cultural Capital Freiburg since 2011 .

Awards (selection)

• German Language Prize (1984)
• Karl Vossler Prize (1994)
• Upper Rhine Culture Prize (1996)

Works (selection)

• Word and language: linguistic basic questions , M. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1970, ISBN 3484220015 .
• Transparent words. On the theory of word formation , Winter, Heidelberg 1971, ISBN 3-533-02131-9 .
• Comparative grammar Spanish-German , together with Nelson Cartagena , Vol. 1, 2, Dudenverlag, Mannheim 1989
• David's rise. Story , CH Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37378-X .
• About language and style , CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39207-5 .
• What we say when we talk , Carl Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 9783446204805 .
• From reading and wondering. The Markus Gospel , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 9783518417294 .
• This is not ouzo for us: Sprachwitze , CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 9783406559631 .
• The damp & the dirty. Small linguistics of vulgar language , CH Beck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-406-62989-1 .
• Well, said Zarathustra , CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-65931-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Martin Gauger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ Anne Freyer: On the trail of Lever's transience , In: Badische Zeitung , Staufen edition of October 27, 2010, online at badische-zeitung.de
2. ↑ Family tree of the professors of the Romance Department of the University of Freiburg , accessed on July 4, 2008
3. ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry. Yearbook 1996 , Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1997 (p. 219)
4. ↑ Winner of the Karl Vossler Prize ( Memento of the original from June 27, 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. , Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art 
5. ↑ Dr. phil., o. Prof. Hans-Martin Gauger on the website of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 4, 2008  
6. ↑ Member list ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2012 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. the citizens' initiative Pro Culture Capital Freiburg  
7. ↑ Stadtchronik von Basel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 26, 2008  
8. ↑ Burkhard Müller-Ullrich : A comparative theory of cursing , review by Hans-Martin Gauger's book "The humidity and dirty" as a book of the week on March 17, 2013, part of the series books market of Germany Radio