Renate Herrmann-Winter
Renate Herrmann-Winter (born January 11, 1933 in Greifswald ) is a German professor of Low German .
Life
Herrmann-Winter studied German and English from 1952 to 1956 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald and then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the German Language at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . She wrote her dissertation in Rostock in 1963 .
In 1992 the newly created chair for Low German Language and Literature at the University of Greifswald was filled with Herrmann-Winter. There she introduced, among other things, the new course in Low German Philology.
After taking up her professorship, she reestablished the work on the Pomeranian Dictionary , which had been stopped for political reasons in 1969 and which she has since continued on her own. The first part of the large dictionary was published in 1997.
In 1997, in her work Heimatsprache , she examined the relationship to the Low German language during the GDR between exclusion and ideological integration .
Herrmann-Winter retired in 1998, but held lectures again at Greifswald University from 2003 after the university had not refilled the professorship for Low German.
She is a member of the Historical Commission for Pomerania .
Awards
- 2003 Culture Prize of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for her cultural work on Low German.
- 2006 Fritz Reuter Prize from the Carl Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
Fonts
- Milk and its processing in the Low German vocabulary of the former province of Pomerania. , Dissertation, Rostock 1963
- Studies on the spoken language in the north of the GDR. Sociolinguistic studies in the Greifswald district. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1979
- Small Low German dictionary for the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania language area. Hinstorff, Rostock 1985 / Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1986, ISBN 3-529-04613-2 (5th edition Rostock 2003)
- Self-defense is allowed. Low German in the judgment of admirers and despisers. Texts from Mecklenburg and Pomerania from the 16th to the 20th century. K. Reich, Rostock 1995, ISBN 3-86167-063-1
- Homeland language between exclusion and ideological integration. Low German in the GDR. European Science Publishing House, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-631-32715-3
- Language images in Low German. Hinstorff, Rostock 2002, ISBN 3-356-00921-4
Web links
- Literature by and about Renate Herrmann-Winter in the catalog of the German National Library
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herrmann-Winter, Renate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Germanist and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Greifswald |