Heinz H. amount

Heinz H. Quantity (born August 4, 1944 in Herten / Ruhr area ) is a German Germanist . Quantity has made numerous contributions to research into the language of the Ruhr area .

Life

Heinz H. Quantity attended the old-language grammar school Petrinum in Recklinghausen , studied German and classical philology in Münster, Zurich and Bochum from 1964 to 1970 and received his doctorate in 1973 on a medieval topic. From 1980 to 1997 he taught German as a foreign language in courses at the International Office of the RUB . From 1979 to 1989 he directed the RUB's international summer course . From 1986 to 1988 he was DAAD lecturer at Tongji University in Shanghai . In 1997 he returned to the German Institute , meanwhile having completed his habilitation . Heinz H. Quantity held several guest lectureships , for example in Shanghai , Minsk , Ulyanovsk , Tashkent , Riga , Catania , Xi'an and Ulan-Ude .

Together with Siegfried Grosse , he initiated the project “ Spoken Language in the Ruhr Area ” (1979 ff.) In the discussion about the application of the “ Charter of Regional or Minority Languages ” of the Council of Europe in the area of Low German, Quantity advocated a realistic assessment of the opportunities that To be able to receive Low German . He was of the opinion that the commitment to language preservation only has a chance of success if a language is passed on from parents to children. From 1981 to 1996 Quantity was treasurer of the Association for Low German Language Research (VndS).

Together with Ullrich "Spiggi" Spiegelberg, who died in January 2018, he founded the research library "Sprachlandschaft Ruhrgebiet" in Gelsenkirchen in 2015. It is located in the basement of a municipal building, Rolandstrasse 3, opposite the Gelsenkirchen Music Theater; therefore the initiators affectionately call them "Dat Souterrang". The research library has three goals. She wants to RESEARCH, she wants to ADVISE and she wants to DOCUMENT everything about the Ruhr area language.

Awards

• 2001 Honorary doctorate from the World Language University of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Works (selection)

In addition to his book publications, Quantity has written numerous articles in compilations and articles in specialist journals.

• The farmer from Bohemia. In pictures of the print e1 . Kümmerle, Göppingen 1975. (= Litterae. Göppinger Contributions to Text History , No. 37). ISBN 3-87452-282-2 .
• Heinrich Laufenberg's 'regime'. Textological study and edition . Kümmerle, Göppingen 1976. (= Göppinger works on German studies , vol. 184). ISBN 3-87452-318-7 .
• How about talking to your children ...? On question 26 of the GETAS survey of 1984. In: Lingua Theodisca. Contributions to linguistics and literary studies. Jan Goossens on his 65th birthday. Edited by José Cajot et al. a. (= Netherlands Studies. Vol. 16 / 1,2). Vol. 1. Münster: LIT, 1995. pp. 655-668.
• The state of Low German today. Oldenburg 1997. (= lectures of the Oldenburg landscape. H. 28.)
• Linguistic history of the Ruhr area. In: Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprachgeschichte. Edited by Jürgen Macha, Elmar Neuss and Robert Peters with collaborators. by Stephan Elspaß. Cologne [u. a.]: Böhlau, 2000. (= Low German Studies. Vol. 46.) pp. 337–347.
• My dear Kokoschinski! The Ruhr dialect. From the most colorful linguistic landscape in Germany. Bottrop: Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag 2013. ISBN 978-3-942094-36-8

literature

• Literature by and about Heinz H. Quantity in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

• Website of the research library "Sprachlandschaft Ruhrgebiet"
• Page by Heinz H. Quantity at the Ruhr University Bochum
• Publisher website of Heinz H. Menge and his book My dear Kokoschinski! The Ruhr dialect
• Review of My dear Kokoschinski! The Ruhr dialect in the Ruhr Nachrichten