Hartmut Dieter Breitkreuz

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Hartmut Dieter Breitkreuz (born February 20, 1937 in Mainz ; † February 17, 2020 ) was a German linguist and literary scholar ( English and American studies ) and didactic specialist in the English language. From 1974 to 2002 he was professor for English language and literature and their didactics at the Heidelberg University of Education .

Life

Hartmut Dieter Breitkreuz spent the first years of his life in Mainz and Wiesbaden , Marienwerder (West Prussia) and Hildburghausen (Thuringia). After the family fled to the West, he attended the Ernestinum grammar school in Coburg (Bavaria) and the Frhr.-v.-Stein grammar school in Recklinghausen , where he graduated from high school in 1958. From 1958 he studied English literature , American Studies , Education , Geography and Sports Science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster (English Studies at Edgar Mertner and Karl Schneider ) and the Georg-August University in Göttingen and, for one academic year at King's College of University of Durham in Newcastle upon Tyne (now Newcastle University ) and at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology in Cambridge .

Breitkreuz completed his MA in October 1965 in Münster, and took the two state exams for teaching at grammar schools in 1964 and 1966, respectively; in between he was student teacher in Kassel , then, from 1966, Studienassessor and, from 1969 to 1973, teacher at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Göttingen. In 1973 he was a professor of English Language and Literature and Didactics of English at the University of Education Heidelberg appointed and in 1974 Professor appointed. Special research focuses were on the English language of instruction and the early learning of foreign languages ​​from class 1, the so-called "elementary school English". In this context, he founded and headed the "English Clearing Center for Elementary Schools in Baden-Württemberg" at the PH Heidelberg for several years.

Within the university, Breitkreuz was, among other things, a specialist in English on several occasions, from 1998 to 2002 Senate Commissioner for Foreign Relations (USA) and Commissioner for the European Credit Transfer System . In addition to his work at the PH Heidelberg, he was a scientist from 1975 to 1980. Consultant of the Linguaphone Sprachlehrinstitut Hamburg and 1997 Research Fellow of the American Biographical Institute in Raleigh (North Carolina) . He was retired in 2002. He died on February 17, 2020.

Breitkreuz was a member of numerous scientific societies such as German Anglistenverband , German Shakespeare Society , Society for Applied Linguistics , German Society for Foreign Language Research , World Education Fellowship , Humboldt Society of Science, Art and Education and the Society for Namenkunde in Vienna.

Focus of work

Breitkreuz made a name for himself from 1973 in particular with his articles and books on false friends and pseudo-anglicisms , which - like his two paperbacks on phrasals and idiomatic verbs , published with René Bosewitz - found a wide reading audience. Other topics of his work included foreign languages ​​in primary school, classroom English (with Manfred Liedtke), collocational learning, holistic English lessons and a large number of analyzes of classroom recordings from university television in schools of all types. In the field of literary studies, Breitkreuz has published articles on the Angry Young Men ( Kingsley Amis , John Wain and Alan Sillitoe ) as well as on Malcolm Bradbury , William Empson , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Richard Hurd . In addition, Breitkreuz published a large number of smaller articles on fairy tale, narrative, proverbial and quotation research, including in the encyclopedia of fairy tales and in English-language specialist journals.

Breitkreuz's work on error research finally culminated in his doctoral thesis, Studies on Early Error Research in Germany , supervised by Konrad Schröder , with which the University of Augsburg awarded him a Dr. phil. PhD . Against the background of the results of Hermann Weimer's (1872–1942) error pedagogy, Breitkreuz describes a new, “error-friendly” way of looking at the wrong in the specifics of error and error at the beginning of the 21st century.

Publications

  • (Ed.) New edition by Helmut Kissling: Lexicon of the English language of instruction. Vocabulary and phraseology . Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg (2nd edition) 1981.
  • (with Manfred Liedtke) It's Easy to Say. Student statements for a communicative English lesson. A Student's Guide to Classroom English . Alder Druck, Heidelberg 1977.
  • (with René Bosewitz) Do Up Your Phrasals. 500 phrases of important verbs . rororo, Reinbek 1989.
  • (with René Bosewitz) Getting on Top of Idiomatic Verbs. A thousand phrases in context . rororo, Reinbek 1989.
  • False Friends. Stumbling blocks of the German-English vocabulary . rororo, Reinbek 1991.
  • More false friends. Treacherous traps in German-English vocabulary . rororo, Reinbek 1992.
  • Studies on early error research in Germany: Hermann Weimer's small error research writings. Introduction - Text Edition - Annotations . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2009 [diss.].
  • (Ed.) Foreign languages ​​in elementary school . Information sheet on teacher training, teacher training and further educational training, 48th University of Education, Heidelberg 1994.
  • (Series Ed.) Book Series Foreign Language Studies . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. et al. (Since 1977).

as well as over 100 articles in compilations and scientific journals.

literature

  • Festschrift for the 60th birthday: Maria Dakowska (ed.): English in the Modern World. Festschrift for Hartmut Breitkreuz On the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. et al. 2000.
  • Thomas Finkenstaedt , Rita Stoll (ed.): Third mirror of the Anglists . Biographical and bibliographical information from 546 professors, lecturers, post-doctoral candidates (3 vol.). Universität, Augsburg 1990, Vol. I, pp. 97-100.
  • Wilfried Kürschner (ed.): Linguist Handbook . Biographical and bibliographical data of German-speaking linguists of the present (2 vols.). Narr, Tübingen 1994, Vol. I, pp. 101-102.
  • Who is who? - The German Who's Who (40th edition). Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2001/02, p. 171 (first 1987).
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar (3 vols.). De Gruyter, Berlin 1980, vol. 1, p. 424.
  • Marquis Who's Who in the World . New Providence, NJ, 16th ed. 1999, p. 207, col. 3.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice , Göttinger Tageblatt of February 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Sources: Personal articles in Finkenstaedt / Stoll (ed.): Third Mirror of the Anglists , Part I, pp. 97-100. - who is who? - The German Who's Who . Schmid-Römhild, Lübeck, 40th edition 2001/02, p. 171. - Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch , Vol. 1, pp. 101-102. - Dakowska: "Hartmut Breitkreuz: Biographical Data". In: Dakowska (ed.): English in the Modern World , pp. XV – XVII.
  3. ↑ Sources: Finkenstaedt / Stoll (ed.): Third Mirror of the Anglists , Part I, pp. 97–100. - Kürschner (ed.): Linguisten-Handbuch , p. 102. - Dakowska: "Hartmut Breitkreuz: A Bibliography". In: Dakowska (ed.): English in the Modern World , pp. XIX – XXIX.

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personal data
SURNAME Breitkreuz, Hartmut Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breitkreuz, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and literary scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 2020