Ludwig Zehetner

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Ludwig Zehetner (born March 16, 1939 in Freising ) is a Bavarian teacher , dialect researcher and writer .

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Ludwig Zehetner grew up in Freising in Upper Bavaria. After graduation , he studied German and English from 1958 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the University of Southampton in England. In 1963 he passed the first and four years later the second state examination for teaching at grammar schools. From 1963 to 1965 he was an employee of the commission for dialect research at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( see also Bavarian dictionary ).

In 1967 Zehetner went to the USA to teach German at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and at the General Staff and Command College in Fort Leavenworth . From 1968 to 2002 he taught German and English at the music school of the Regensburger Domspatzen (since 1970 civil servant for life), where he also became deputy headmaster in 1988 . Ludwig Zehetner received his doctorate in 1977; a year later he received his first teaching assignment at the University of Regensburg . Since 1999 he has been an honorary professor for Bavarian dialectology there .

Ludwig Zehetner is one of the most renowned experts in the field of Bavarian. He has published numerous books, magazine articles, and other written work. In 2002 he had his own series on the private radio Melodie , which was continued in 2005. He can also be seen as an expert on television. In 2004 Zehetner was a member of the jury for the My Dearest Bavarian Word campaign , which was organized by the Regional Association for Homeland Care and the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . His dictionary of Bavarian German. Lexicon of the German Language in Altbayern was published in 1997; In 2005 a revised and significantly expanded edition appeared, in 2014 the last expanded edition for the time being.

Currently playing Zehetner in Tower Theater Regensburg and Munich stages the lead role in the play Mei ferry Lady of Regensburg dialect poet and writer Joseph Berlinger . In this piece he plays the linguist Ludwig Zehetner (i.e. himself), who gives language lessons to non-Bavarians - an allusion to Professor Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady based on a model by George Bernard Shaw . The premiere was on October 28, 2011. In the meantime (November 2014) the piece has been played 146 times in front of a sold-out house.

Awards

Ludwig Zehetner with the Bayerischer Poetentaler, 2019

Works (selection)

  • Dialect / high-level language contrasting. Language books for German lessons. Bavarian. Düsseldorf 1977 (Pedagogical Publishing House Schwann)
  • The dialect of the Hallertau , Marburg (Lahn) 1978 (Elwert)
  • The Bavarian dialect book , Munich 1985 ( CH Beck )
  • Bavarian German - Lexicon of the German Language in Altbayern , Munich 1997 ( Hugendubel ), new editions 1998 (Hugendubel) and Regensburg 2005 (Edition Vulpes), Regensburg 2013 (Edition Vulpes)
  • Bavaria's dialects (37 dialect samples on MC with comments), Munich 1991
  • Bavarian in Bavaria, Austria, Czech Republic. Michael Kollmer Memorial Symposium 2002 (Ed.), Regensburg 2002 (Edition Vulpes)
  • "Domspatzen all look as if they were called Wolfgang ..." - A study on the nicknames of the students at the music high school. In: Festschrift 50 years music high school of the Regensburger Domspatzen , Regensburg 1998
  • Regensburger Dialektforum Volume 1 ff., Regensburg 2002 ff. (Series editor together with Rupert Hochholzer)
  • Its OK! Words and phrases from the dialects and the regional high-level language in Old Bavaria , Regensburg 2009, 2010, 2011 (Edition Vulpes) (so far 3 volumes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mei Fähr Lady: The Bavarian crash course with Prof. Zehetner on the Regensburg Tower Theater website.
  2. ↑ muenchner-turmschreiber.de
personal data
SURNAME Zehetner, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, dialect researcher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Freising