Heinz Fiukowski

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Heinz Fiukowski (* 16th July 1929 in Schivelbein , Pomerania , † 20th January 2020 in Leipzig ) was a German speaking scientists and speakers puller .

After graduating from high school in Halle (Saale) , Fiukowski studied German and speech at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg until 1952 . a. with Richard Wittsack . From 1953 he taught as a lecturer for speech at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . In the following years he built up the science of speech science at the University of Leipzig, which was expanded to include the areas of rhetoric and poetry (previously parts of German studies), and which he headed until 1994. Fiukowski received his doctorate in 1968 from the Leipzig Faculty of Philology. When he left the service in 1994, the university honored him with the appointment of an associate professor .

In addition to his university activities, Fiukowski appeared as a poetry reciter. He worked with speaker groups from the Louis-Fürnberg-Ensemble and the dance studio of the Deutsche Post (today Leipziger Tanztheater ), with cabaret artists from the Academixer and Leipziger Pfeffermühle as well as with actors from the Dresden State Theater . He also trained rhetoric lecturers for the Urania Society . Between 1958 and 1967 he published reviews and articles on cultural topics in the Leipziger Volkszeitung .

Fiukowski's Speech-Educational Elementary Book is a standard work in his field. It appeared in eight editions from 1967 to 2010 and at the time of his death was the best-selling book by a speech scholar in German-speaking countries. By 1993, the bibliography of German-speaking speech studies and speech training recorded a total of 35 scientific publications by Fiukowski.

Publications (selection)

  • Speech-educational elementary book. 8th edition, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2010 [1967].
  • (Ed. With Eberhard Stock ) Aims and methods of speech training. Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1976.
  • Introduction to Speech Science. 3rd edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1982 [1976].
  • (with Gabriel Ptok) speaking styles of selected professional groups. In: Hartwig Kalverkämper, Klaus-Dieter Baumann (ed.): Technical text types. Components - Relations - Strategies. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 1996, pp. 663-682.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gabriel Ptok: On the death of Heinz Fiukowski. In: speak , No. 69 (2020), pp. 4–6.
  2. ↑ Bärbel Teubert-Seiwert: 100 Years of Speech Science at the University of Leipzig. Conference on the suitability and qualification of speech educators. University of Leipzig, August 9, 2000.
  3. ↑ Hellmut Geißner, Bernd Schwandt: Bibliography of German-language publications from speech studies and speech training since the turn of the century. Röhrig, St. Ingbert 2000, No. 445-480.
personal data
SURNAME Fiukowski, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speech scholar and speech trainer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Schivelbein , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 2020
Place of death Leipzig