Karl-Heinz Göttert

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Karl-Heinz Göttert (2014)

Karl-Heinz Göttert (born February 25, 1943 in Koblenz ) is a German Germanist and professor emeritus for German studies at the University of Cologne .

Live and act

Göttert studied history and German at the University of Cologne and completed his studies with the first state examination and subsequent doctorate . Since 1970 he has been an academic councilor and senior councilor. In 1985 he completed his habilitation and from 1990 to 2009 was an adjunct professor for older German literature at the University of Cologne. He is now retired, but continues to teach at the universities in Prague, Hangzhou, Guangzhou and Shanghai (honorary professor there).

His research areas include medieval literature, rhetoric , cultural history and the history of language. In his book German. Biography of a Language (2010), Göttert downplayed the danger that Anglicization poses to Germans too much, criticized Hans-Martin Gauger . With his book Mythos Redemacht he was on the shortlist for the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair in the non-fiction / essay category .

Göttert has also written several historical detective novels as well as books on organs . He is married and has two daughters.

Works (selection)

  • New German dictionary. With 100,000 entries. Helmut Lingen Verlag , Cologne 2008 (2nd edition 2011).

Scientific writings

  • Concept of virtue and epic structure in courtly poetry. Böhlau, Cologne / Vienna 1971, ISBN 3-412-31871-X .
  • with Wolfgang Herrlitz: "Linguistic Propaedeutics". 2 volumes. I. Theoretical foundations. II. Assignments and materials. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-484-25024-0 .
  • Argumentation. Niemeyer, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-484-25027-5 .
  • Communication ideals. Investigations on European conversation theory . Iudicium, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-89129-211-2 .
  • Introduction to rhetoric. Basic concepts - history - reception . Fink, Munich 1991 (UTB 1599), ISBN 3-7705-2679-1 .
  • Knigge or: From the illusions of a decent life. dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04672-4 .
  • History of the voice . Fink, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7705-3281-3 .
  • Magic. On the history of the dispute over the magical arts among philosophers, theologians, doctors, lawyers and natural scientists from antiquity to the Enlightenment . Fink, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7705-3596-0 .
  • Small writing school for students. Fink, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8252-2068-0 .
  • Fingers crossed. The normal superstition in everyday life . Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 978-3-15-010533-7 .
  • Introduction to style (together with Oliver Junge). Fink, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-8252-2567-4 .
  • Haste makes waste. Origin and meaning of the proverbs. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-010579-X .
  • All of our celebrations. Their origin and meaning. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-010645-7 .
  • There is no more kiss. The (new) spelling explained. Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-15-020157-2 .
  • Times and customs. A story of propriety . Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010703-4 .
  • German. Biography of a language. Ullstein, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-550-08778-0 .
  • Babbler, Life with Flails , Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-020200-5 .
  • The knights . Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-15-010807-9 .
  • Everything except standard German. A foray through our dialects , Ullstein, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08877-3 .
  • Farewell to mother tongue. German in times of globalization , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-029715-0 .
  • Myth of power to speak. Another history of rhetoric , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-026531-9 .
  • Luther's Bible. History of a hostile takeover , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-10-397257-3 .
  • German language . 100 pages, Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2017, ISBN 978-3-15-020444-3 .
  • When nature still spoke. Humans, animals and plants before modernity , Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-15-011204-5 .
  • The language cleaners. The fight against foreign words and German nationalism , Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-54-910009-7 .

Editions

  • Heinrich the Glîchezâre: Reinhart Fuchs. Middle High German and New High German. Reclam, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-15-009819-X .
  • Adolph Freiherr Knigge: About dealing with people. Reclam, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-15-001138-8 .
  • Adolph Freiherr Knigge: About dealing with people. A selection. Reclam, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-15-010705-8 .
  • Martin Luther. The 95 theses , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2016.
  • Martin Luther. The big reading book , S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2017.

Novels

Books on organs

Together with Eckhard Isenberg:

As sole author:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Learned to speak while translating , deutschlandfunk.de, message from May 2, 2010.
  2. ↑ Hans-Martin Gauger: Our language is not pure innocence, in: FAZ No. 79, April 6, 2010, p. 28.
  3. ↑ Non-fiction / essay writing nominations for the Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2015 ( Memento from February 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Göttert, Myth of Speech Power. Another story of rhetoric. Frankfurt a. M. 2015. p. 488.
personal data
SURNAME Göttert, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz