Theodor Ickler

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Theodor Ickler (born April 7, 1944 in Krauschwitz , Oberlausitz ) is a German German philologist who was best known as a critic of the 1996 spelling reform . He lives in Spardorf near Erlangen .

Professional background

Ickler studied at the University of Marburg , the subjects German , classical philology and philosophy for teaching at secondary schools. He also studied Indo-European and Chinese . He passed the first state examination in 1970, received his doctorate in Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies in 1973 and passed the second state examination in 1979 in Berlin. In 1985 he completed his habilitation in German as a foreign language at the University of Munich and has been teaching at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg since 1987 .

From 1975 to 1977 Ickler was lecturer at the DAAD in New Delhi ( India ). He also held guest lectureships in Innsbruck and Tianjin ( People's Republic of China ).

Use against the spelling reform

Ickler's spelling dictionary

Ickler has criticized the spelling reform in detail in several books and numerous articles. As an expert he appeared in hearings on the spelling reform before the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag , in the hearing before the Intergovernmental Commission for German Spelling and in the reform proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court . In addition, he spoke out against the reform in lectures and panel discussions.

In his publication Critical Commentary on the “New Regulation of German Spelling” , he critically comments in detail on the prescriptively changed rules and individual word spellings of the reformed spelling. In his orthographic dictionary Normal German Spelling , he descriptively documents the German spelling that was customary at the end of the 20th century on the basis of the "actual writing usage" he identified. As a representative of the PEN , Ickler was a member of the Council for German Spelling until February 2006 , which he left under protest. About the time of his cooperation he stated: "I was the only reform opponent in the council, and there were still some reform critics."

Awards

In 1977 and 1978 Ickler received the German Academy Prize for Language and Poetry . In 2001 he was awarded the German Language Prize. Above all, his work on orthography theory and history was recognized. In the same year, the readers of Deutsche Sprachwelt voted him “Sprachwahrer des Jahres”. On June 8, 2005, Ickler was elected a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Publications (selection)

  • Plato's so-called "hypothesis procedure". Dissertation University of Marburg, Department of Classical Studies, 1973, 113 pp.
  • Word use and word knowledge (unpublished habilitation thesis), University of Munich, 1984.
  • The so-called spelling reform. A shield prank . Leibniz, St. Goar 1997, 207 pp, ISBN 3-931155-09-9 ( Here download, PDF, 750 kB )
  • Critical commentary on the "new regulation of German spelling". With an appendix to the “Mannheim hearing”. 2. reviewed u. exp. Edition, Palm & Enke, Erlangen and Jena 1999, 289 pages, ISBN 3-7896-0992-7 (Erlanger Studies, Volume 116). ( Here download, PDF, 891 kB)
  • The discipline of language. Technical languages ​​in our time. Narr, Tübingen 1997, 438 pages, ISBN 3-8233-4544-3 (Forum for Technical Language Research; Volume 33)
  • Normal German spelling. Write meaningfully, separate, make a mark. 4th expanded edition, Leibniz, St. Goar 2004, 579 pp., ISBN 3-931155-14-5 (formerly udT: The Spelling Dictionary )
  • Regulatory power. Background of the spelling reform. Leibniz, St. Goar 2001, 312 pp, ISBN 3-931155-18-8 ( Here download, PDF, 1.9 MB)
  • Spelling reform at a dead end: New documents and comments. Leibniz, St. Goar 2004, 276 pp, ISBN 3-931155-22-6 ( Here download, PDF, 1.7 MB)
  • Linguistic expert opinion on the "Petition to end the spelling reform project" and on the replica of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (PDF, 117 kB). Erlangen, May 5, 2004.
  • Reform with three “Fs” in the SWR2 series “Aula”, January 1, 2005
  • Wrong is right. A guide through the abysses of the bad spelling reform. Droemer, Munich 2006, 271 pages, ISBN 978-3-426-27391-3
  • How good is the German language? In: German Language Prize 2001-2005 . Edited by Ulrich Knoop on behalf of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language. IFB-Verlag im Institut für Betriebslinguistik, Paderborn 2007, 207 pp., ISBN 3-931263-71-1 , here pp. 23-40
  • Slim German. IFB Verlag Deutsche Sprache, Paderborn 2019, 247 pages, ISBN 978-3-942409-84-1

literature

  • Ulrich Knoop : Report of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation for 2001 [reason for the award of the award to Theodor Ickler, appreciation of his services]. In: German Language Prize 2001-2005. Edited by Ulrich Knoop on behalf of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language. IFB-Verlag im Institut für Betriebslinguistik, Paderborn 2007, 207 pp., ISBN 3-931263-71-1 , here: pp. 8-13.
  • Thomas Steinfeld : The case of doubt. Laudation for Theodor Ickler . In: German Language Prize 2001-2005 . Edited by Ulrich Knoop on behalf of the Henning Kaufmann Foundation to maintain the purity of the German language. IFB-Verlag im Institut für Betriebslinguistik, Paderborn 2007, 207 pp., ISBN 3-931263-71-1 , here: pp. 14-22

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See for example the German Bundestag: Drucksache 13/10183 of March 24, 1998
  2. ↑ Theodor Ickler: Critical Commentary on the "New Regulation of German Spelling" (PDF, 891 kB). Second, revised and expanded edition, Erlangen, 1998.
  3. ↑ Ickler leaves the Spelling Council. In: boersenblatt.net, February 25, 2006.
  4. ↑ Theodor Ickler: Yes, one can only walk there. In: FAZ , February 25, 2006, No. 48 / page 37.
  5. ↑ Theodor Ickler's comment of December 29, 2007 at 12:54 p.m. in the discussion on Reinhard Markner's article Ironie der Schriftgeschichte of July 4, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Ickler, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist and critic of the spelling reform (1996)
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Krauschwitz , Upper Lusatia