Reinhold Aman

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Reinhold Albert Aman (born April 8, 1936 in Fürstenzell ; † March 2, 2019 ) was a German-American chemical engineer and university professor . He had been the founder and editor of Maledicta magazine since 1977 , which he devoted to the study of the science of cursing and scolding, Maledictology .

biography

Aman studied chemical engineering in Augsburg and then worked as a translator and administrator for the American armed forces in Frankfurt am Main . He later worked as a chemist for oil refineries in Frankfurt, Munich and Montreal . In 1959 he moved from Canada to the United States in Milwaukee and found employment as a metallurgist and analytical chemist. From his marriage in 1960 he had a daughter.

In 1968 he received his doctorate on "The fight in Wolframs Parzival " at the University of Texas .

From 1968 to 1974 Aman was assistant professor in German at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee with courses in German grammar , style , phonetics , philology , German-language literature of the Middle Ages and Baroque , dialectology , bibliography and methods.

Aman published a Bavarian-Austrian swear dictionary , several shorter monographs and various books, among them Hillary Clinton's Pen Pal: A Guide to Life and Lingo in Federal Prison in 1996 , a handout on subcultures , argot and sociolects in American prisons, which he wrote Hillary Clinton dedicated.

Aman gained a deeper understanding of the penitentiary system in the United States in 1994 when, after his divorce in 1990, he sent two postcards to his ex-wife with collages of newspaper reports of divorced men killing their ex-wives. In this context he also sent a two-page pamphlet ( "Legal Slimebags of Wisconsin" ) with fundamental, polemical criticism of the lawyers and judges involved in his divorce. A court sentenced him, despite his admission that the letters were to be understood as black humor , to 27 months in prison, which he spent in the Federal Correctional Institution , a prison on Terminal Island, Los Angeles County , until his early release after 15½ months .

In the American documentary Fuck from 2005, Aman was interviewed as an expert.

Works

  • Reinhold Aman: How Do They Do It? A Collection of Wordplays Revealing the Sexual Proclivities of Man and Beast. Maledicta Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0916500092
  • Reinhold Aman: Hillary Clinton's Pen Pal: A Guide to Life and Lingo in Federal Prison . Maledicta Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0916500146
  • Reinhold Aman: Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words . Marlowe & Company, 1996, ISBN 978-1569248362
  • Reinhold Aman: Bavarian-Austrian swear dictionary . Allitera Verlag, ISBN 978-3865200952
  • Reinhold Aman: Talking Dirty . Robson Books Ltd, 1998, ISBN 978-0860518815

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liesbeth Koenen: Zelfs hij kreeg kippenvel van de allerergste vloek. In: NRC Handelsblad. March 8, 2019, accessed March 18, 2019 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff Appellee, v. Reinhold AMAN, Defendant Appellant ( Memento from May 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ J'accuse! ( Memento from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) TO OPEN LETTER TO JANET RENO, ATTORNEY GENERAL, US DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE from Reinhold Aman Ex-Federal Prisoner No. 03873-089 and The Worlds Most Dangerous Postcard Writer. There: "The three remaining counts were based on the language in my revealing pamphlet Legal Slimebags of Wisconsin, distributed widely to jurists in Wisconsin and elsewhere, as well as two black-humor prank postcards with newspaper headline clippings I mailed to my ex-wifey in Wisconsin. "
  4. ↑ IMDB entry for the film "Fuck (2005) "

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personal data
SURNAME Aman, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aman, Reinhold Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American chemical engineer, university professor and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenzell
DATE OF DEATH 2nd March 2019