Klaus Heller (Germanist)

Klaus Heller (* 1940 ) is a German specialist in German .

Klaus Heller studied German , music education and psychology and received his doctorate from the University of Leipzig . From 1974 to 1991 he worked as a research assistant at the Central Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1992 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim .

He was a member of the Intergovernmental Commission for German Spelling, which has since been dissolved, and was managing director of its office at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim from 1997 to 2004 .

Publications

The foreign word in the German language of the present. Studies in the field of common language . VEB Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1966.
Investigations into the definition of the foreign word and its spelling in contemporary German. Dissertation A, University of Leipzig, 1981
Theoretical and practical problems of neologism lexicography. Considerations and materials for a dictionary of the neologisms used in the general language of the GDR (= linguistic studies, series A, work reports, volume 184). ZI for Linguistics, Berlin 1988
Spelling 2000. The reform at a glance. Word list of the changed spellings. Klett-Schulbuchverlag, Stuttgart [u. a.] 1995, ISBN 3-12-320660-2 ; 2nd edition, 1996, ISBN 3-12-320668-8 ; 3rd edition, 2000, ISBN 3-12-320666-1
Reform of the German spelling. The new regulation at a glance. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, [Gütersloh] 1996, ISBN 3-577-10692-1
Spelling reform. A summary. Ministry of Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Press and Public Relations Department, Magdeburg 1996
Spelling reform. [Born-Verlag], [Hildesheim] 1998, ISBN 3-00-003533-8
The rules of German spelling. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-615-00181-5