Jürgen Macha

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Jürgen Macha (born October 10, 1949 in Lotte (Westphalia) ; † January 26, 2014 in Augsburg ) was a German linguist and most recently held a professorship at the German Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Life

Jürgen Macha attended the Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg and passed his Abitur there in 1968 before studying German, history, pedagogy and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and then at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1974 J. Macha completed his studies with the first state examination in German and pedagogy. From 1976 to 1979 he was lecturer at the DAAD in Nijmegen and in 1980 he studied with Werner Besch and Erich E. Geißler in Bonn on the subject of “Realizations of the 'regulative' function of speaking. A study on the language behavior of six-year-old children ”. In 1989 he completed his habilitation in Bonn with the thesis "The flexible speaker. Investigations into the language and language awareness of Rhenish master craftsmen". From 1989 J. Macha was a university lecturer in Bonn, and from 1993 to 1996 he was a C3 professor for German language history at the University of Cologne . In 1996, he was appointed C4 Professor for German Philology (Linguistics) at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, which he held until his death in 2014.

Macha was the Chairman since 1999. Commission on dialect and Namenforschung Westphalia of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe . In addition, he was a member of various scientific societies such as the Association for Low German Language Research, the Working Group on Historical Urban Language Research, the Association for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland, the Association for Symposium on German Didactics, the Augustin-Wibbelt Society and the International Scientific Advisory Board of Max-Kade -Institute at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He held several international visiting professorships, especially at this and the Xi'an International Studies University (XISU) in China.

Jürgen Macha was married to the education professor and gender researcher Hildegard Macha . From this marriage a son and a daughter were born.

research

In teaching and research, Jürgen Macha mainly devoted himself to two specialist areas: On the one hand, the German language history with a focus on the language of the 17th century (office language, court files, witch interrogation protocols, inscriptions) and the language of the 19th century ( language of emigrants), and on the other hand dialectology / Sociolinguistics with the aspects of dialect-standard language constellations in today's Germany as well as language demoscopy and speaker dialectology. His areas of interest also included the connection between language and wit or humor and dialect.

From 2001 to 2005 Macha headed the DFG project Chancellery Language of the 17th Century: Investigations into Language and Communication in Witch Interrogation Protocols, from 2008 to 2012 he was head of the Münster project location as part of the DFG project Language Variation in Northern Germany . Together with the professor of German studies Hermann Niebaum , J. Macha completed the third revised edition of the "Introduction to Dialectology of German" shortly before his death. From 2009 to 2012 Jürgen Macha was in charge of a sub-project in the Cluster of Excellence Religion and Politics in the Cultures of the Pre-Modern and Modern at the Westphalian Wilhelms-Universität Münster. The subject of research was the question of different language usage preferences, especially of Catholics and Lutherans in the so-called confessional age . His last work on this subject, “The Denominational Factor in the German Language History of the Early Modern Age”, was published shortly after his death.

Monographs (selection)

  • Jürgen Macha: Realizations of the "regulative function" of speaking. A study of the language behavior of six year old children. [also Diss., Bonn 1980]. 1981.
  • Jürgen Macha: The flexible speaker . Investigations into the language and language awareness of Rhenish master craftsmen. [At the same time Habil.-Schr.], Bonn 1989 (=  publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn ). Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 1991, ISBN 3-412-01091-X .
  • Jürgen Macha: language and wit . The weird power of words. Dümmler, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-427-63041-2 .
  • Jürgen Macha: The denominational factor in the German language history of the early modern period . Ergon-Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-95650-010-7 .
  • Hermann Niebaum and Jürgen Macha: Introduction to the dialectology of German (=  Germanistic workbooks . Volume 37 ). 3. Edition. de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033386-2 .

Editorships (selection)

  • Jürgen Macha (Ed.): Hexen-Prothocoll . Cologne witch interrogations from the 17th century (=  messages from the city archive of Cologne . Volume 74 ). Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 1992, ISBN 3-412-12192-4 .
  • Jürgen Macha (Ed.): Rhenish-Westphalian Language History (=  Low German Studies . Volume 46 ). Böhlau, Cologne [a. a.] 2000, ISBN 3-412-06000-3 .
  • Jürgen Macha (Ed.): We no longer ask for Germany . Emigrant letters and documents from the Joseph Scheben (1825–1938) collection (=  linguistic history of German in North America . Volume 2 ). Lang, Frankfurt am Main [a. a.] 2003, ISBN 3-631-39807-7 .
  • Jürgen Macha, Anna-Maria Balbach, Sarah Horstkamp (eds.): Denomination and language in the early modern times . Interdisciplinary perspectives (=  studies and texts on the Middle Ages and early modern times . Volume 18 ). Waxmann, Münster [a. a.] 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2636-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The website of the German Institute in Münster about the partnership with the university in Xi'an . Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hildegard Macha at DNB
  3. ↑ Project homepage ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. . Retrieved March 12, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kanzleissprache.de
  4. ↑ The website of the project location Münster . Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ The page of the corresponding sub-project . Retrieved March 12, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Macha, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Lotte (Westphalia)
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2014
Place of death augsburg