Roland Ris

Roland Ris (* 29. September 1939 in Interlaken ) is a Swiss German scholar and Emeritus Professor of ETH Zurich .

Life

Ris studied German, general and Indo-European linguistics as well as Latin and Romance philology at the University of Bern , the Free University of Berlin and the Philipps University of Marburg . From 1972 to 1976 he was Professor at the University of Bern and from 1976 to 2004 Professor of German Language and Literature at the ETH Zurich and President of the Commission for National Dictionaries. From 1998 to 2004 he was also President of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (SAGW) .

Ris' research interests are Swiss literature and Swiss-German dialectology ; Maledictology is a hobbyhorse . Among other things, he is working on a comprehensive Bern-German dictionary and a Swiss swear dictionary with associated social history .

He also became known to the German television audience through an appearance on TV total on November 9, 2005. Here he explained the origin of selected swear words to Stefan Raab and the interested audience . In 2006 he was also a talk guest of Kurt Aeschbacher .

Publications

• The adjective "reich" in medieval German. History - semantic structure - stylistics . De Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 3-11-001835-7 .
• Bibliography of the Bern German dialect literature. Independently published, purely or mostly Bern-German publications from the beginning up to and including the year of publication 1987 . Emmentaler Druck, Langnau 1989, ISBN 3-85654-901-3 .
• Le gong, le chat, le sphinx. Approches de la poésie tardive de Rilke . SAGW, Bern 2001.

Web links

• ETH website from Roland Ris
• Cursing yes - but please be creative - to the planned Swiss swear dictionary
• Link to the archive ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of the Aeschbacher broadcast of June 22, 2006