Heinz Küpper (linguist)

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Heinz Küpper (born January 12, 1909 in Cologne ; † December 9, 1999 in Neuwied ) was a German linguist .

Life

After graduating from the Schiller-Gymnasium in Cologne , Küpper studied German, French and Latin philology and German folklore in Cologne, Vienna and Berlin from the 1927 summer semester . Küpper completed his studies with a doctorate in Cologne in 1933. The topic of the dissertation supervised by Friedrich von der Leyen was the French Nibelungen and Tristan research. In his second report, the Romance scholar Leo Spitzer from Cologne spoke of a considerable chauvinism in Küpper's assessment of French philology: “So I share the feeling of disappointment that Mr. vd Leyen expresses and can only recommend that the faculty accept the work on condition that Part III will be completely revised or, better, deleted. "

From 1933 to 1937 Küpper was an assistant at the German seminar at the University of Cologne and at the same time worked as a German teacher for foreign students. From 1938 to the beginning of the Second World War he lived as a freelance writer, then from 1939 to 1965 in various positions, including as a career advisor. From 1965 he worked as a private scholar .

Heinz Küpper lived 1944-1965 in Bendorf-Sayn , from 1965 to 1967 in Bendorf and since 1967 in Bendorf-Stromberg , where the tomb is located. His wife Marianne Küpper (* February 5, 1911 , † June 18, 2005 in Neuwied) was an employee and co-author.

plant

Küpper's main area of ​​work was the lexicographical recording of colloquial German . He began collecting words in the second half of the 1930s, which he was then able to add significantly through questionnaires, calls in the media and reviewing relevant literature. The main results of his work are the dictionary of German colloquial language (6 volumes, 1955–1970) and the Illustrated Lexicon of German colloquial language (8 volumes, 1982–1984), which, according to his own statements, comprises around 120,000 headwords. A short version of the 6-volume dictionary was published in 1968 as a handy dictionary of everyday German , the short version of the 8-volume work in 1987 as PONS. Dictionary of German colloquial language . In 2004, Direct Media Berlin published a digital edition with the same title with 65,000 keywords.

In addition to these large dictionaries, Küpper devoted himself to certain topics and presented them in special dictionaries, such as the language of soldiers and the language of young people, especially that of schoolchildren. He received ministerial approval for research into the language of soldiers; it was funded by the German Research Foundation for two years .

Küpper reported several times on his work. In these publications he presented his methods and stated that he was trying to capture the colloquial language in the entire German-speaking area and thereby achieve representativeness as much as possible; Incidental finds should not be included.

reception

Küpper's company was welcomed many times, sometimes emphatically, if not without criticism. Several press articles testify to an interested reception of the dictionaries. Some of his works went through multiple editions or editions with different publishers.

Not infrequently, however , Küpper's work was also criticized, for example by Franz Josef Hausmann , who said that Küpper was “unable” to “separate the wheat from the chaff. Usual and occasional stand next to each other unmarked ”. It was also criticized that he did not include expressions that he considered too drastic. A slating wrote Walter Boehlich . The critics were countered by the fact that Küpper's dictionaries were aimed at the general public and not just at specialists, as can be seen from his correspondence with his publisher Eugen Claassen .

Herbert Ernst Wiegand expresses a balanced judgment , dedicating a multi-page appraisal to Küpper's work. Wiegand explains: "Nowhere in German lexicography can you find such material compiled." "Although some things could be criticized in detail, the Küpperschen dictionaries are a valuable addition to the large general monolingual dictionaries and the large dialect dictionaries of German".

Publications

  • The German colloquial language . In: Researches and Advances. 16, 1940, pp. 375-377.
  • Unoccupied toi - toi - toi. 99 age-old rules to increase happiness, to ward off bad luck. Heimeran, Munich 1951.
  • History of a dictionary. In: mother tongue. 65, 1955, pp. 350-353.
  • Dictionary of German colloquial language . 6 volumes. Claassen, Hamburg 1955-1970. (Volume I: Dictionary of German colloquial language. 1955; Volume II: 1000 new expressions from A – Z. 1956; Volume III: Standard German - Colloquial German; General index. 1964; Volume IV: Berufsschelten und Verwandtes, 1966; Volume V: 10000 new expressions from A – Z (Sachschelten), 1967; Volume VI: Youth German from A – Z. 1970.)
  • Handy dictionary of everyday German. Claassen, Hamburg 1968.
  • At the A ... of the world. Landserdeutsch 1939–1945. Claassen, Hamburg 1970.
  • Reclam's foreign dictionary. In addition to a list of common abbreviations. Reclam, Stuttgart 1970.
  • dtv dictionary of German colloquial language. 2 volumes. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1971. (Corresponds to: Handy dictionary of everyday German language. 1968.)
  • Unoccupied toi - toi - toi. 99 age-old rules to increase happiness, to ward off bad luck. Edited and expanded edition by the author. Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 1971, ISBN 3-436-01377-3 .
  • Together with his wife Marianne Küpper: Student German . Claassen, Hamburg 1972.
  • The dictionary of foreign words with a large list of abbreviations . eska Verlag, Bielefeld 1976.
  • ABC comedians to chirping vegetables: the German soldier's German. Verlag für deutsche Sprache (VfdS), Wiesbaden 1978. (= mother tongue, supplement 3. ), ISBN 3-88228-001-8 .
  • Inventory of colloquial German . In: mother tongue. 92, 1982, pp. 15-26.
  • Fashion catalog maker as a language fashion maker? In: The Language Service. 26, 1982, pp. 105-107.
  • Illustrated lexicon of German colloquial language. 8 volumes. Klett, Stuttgart 1982-84. (Volume I: A - sheet . 1982, ISBN 3-12-570010-8 ; Volume II: Blau - Faul . 1983, ISBN 3-12-570020-5 ; Volume III: Faust - Haus . 1983, ISBN 3-12 -570130-9 ; Volume IV: Haut - Kost . 1983, ISBN 3-12-570140-6 ; Volume V: Kot - Naschzahn . 1984, ISBN 3-12-570150-3 ; Volume VI: Nase - Saras . 1984, ISBN 3-12-570160-0 ; Volume VII: Anchovy - Susi . 1984, ISBN 3-12-570170-8 ; Volume VIII: Susig - Zypresse . 1984, ISBN 3-12-570180-5 .)
  • From anchoring to chirping vegetables. The German soldier's German from A – Z. Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-02225-4 .
  • Hands-on German. Modern expressions from "abseiling" to "Zoff". VMA, Wiesbaden 1987.
  • PONS. Dictionary of German colloquial language. Klett, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-12-570600-9 .

literature

  • Herbert Ernst Wiegand: The German Lexicography of the Present. In: Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. An international handbook on lexicography . = Dictionaries . 2nd subband. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1990, ISBN 3-11-012420-3 , pp. 2100-2246 ( Handbooks for Linguistics and Communication Science 5), (Zu Küpper: 2201-2206).
  • Karl-Heinz Best : On the development of the vocabulary of everyday German. In: Glottometrics 20, 2010, pp. 34–37 (PDF full text ). (Mathematical modeling of the vocabulary growth in German colloquial language from the 10th / 11th century; the data are based on the first two volumes of Küpper, Dictionary of German Colloquial Language, evaluated by Helmut Meier : Deutsche Sprachstatistik . 2., exp. And verb. Ed. Olms, Hildesheim 1967, 1978, ISBN 3-487-00735-5 . (1st edition 1964))

Web links

  • Enzensberger's April reading: Heinz Küpper “Dictionary of German Colloquial Language II” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1963, pp. 84-85 ( Online - Apr. 3, 1963 ).
  • Schlick and Schlunz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1968, p. 54-56 ( Online - July 8, 1968 ).
  • Hardly shoot . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1970, pp. 113-115 ( online - 2 November 1970 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evidence for the studies in Cologne, Vienna and Berlin in the matriculation cards in UA Cologne, access 600/45.
  2. ^ Opinion by Leo Spitzer in the doctoral file: UA Cologne, access 44/558 (album no. 785). The partial print of the dissertation under the title French Nibelung Research. A study on French German studies and literary criticism in UA Cologne, access 44/1316.
  3. ↑ Heinz Küpper, Marianne Küpper: Student German . Claassen, Hamburg 1972.
  4. ^ Wiegand 1990: 2202
  5. ^ Küpper 1940, 1955, 1982
  6. ↑ Enzensberger's April reading: Heinz Küpper “Dictionary of German Colloquial Language II” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1963, pp. 84-85 ( Online - Apr. 3, 1963 ).
  7. ↑ among others in Der Spiegel and Die Zeit
  8. ^ Franz Josef Hausmann: The dictionary of spoken language, argot and slang. In: Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand, Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. 2nd subband. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1990, pp. 2100–2246, quotation p. 1186.
  9. ↑ Schlick and Schlunz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1968, p. 54-56 ( Online - July 8, 1968 ).
  10. ↑ Praise from the schoolmaster. In: nzz.ch. April 8, 2006, accessed December 14, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Eugen Claassen: Thinking in Books. Correspondence with authors and translators. Selected and edited by Hilde Claassen. Claassen, Hamburg / Düsseldorf 1970, p. 268. ISBN 3-546-41849-2 .
  12. ^ Wiegand 1990, p. 2202
  13. ^ Wiegand 1990, p. 2206
personal data
SURNAME Küpper, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1999
Place of death Neuwied