Ursula Stötzer

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Ursula Stötzer (* 1928 ; † 2018 in Friedrichroda , Gotha district ) was a German speech scholar with a focus on phonetics and speech training . She was primarily responsible for editing the dictionary of German pronunciation , which has appeared in several editions since 1964.

Career

Ursula Stötzer was a student of Irmgard Weithase (1906-1986) and received her doctorate in 1959 from the University of Jena with the thesis The beginnings of a secular German rhetoric in the 17th and 18th centuries (later published under the title Deutsche Rredekunst in the 17th and 18th centuries) . Century ). From 1958 she worked at the Institute for Speech Science and Phonetics of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , where she was part of the editorial team of the "Pronunciation dictionary of general German high-volume". This created the dictionary of German pronunciation , the first edition of which appeared in 1964 and in which Stötzer did an immense amount of work. Her habilitation (dissertation B) took place in 1974 with the work The emphasis on compound words with special consideration of compound words with foreign constituents .

Publications (selection)

  • German oratory in the 17th and 18th centuries. Halle (Saale): VEB Niemeyer 1962.
  • Oratory. Leipzig: VEB Bibliographical Institute 1964.
  • On the frequency of foreign words in political essays and speeches. A contribution to phonetic Germanization. Halle (Saale): Martin Luther University 1966.
  • Speech exercises for children. A record with booklet. Berlin: VEB Deutsche Schallplatten 1974.
  • (with Otto Preu :) Speech training. For students of educational professions. Berlin: People and Knowledge 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Internationales Germanistenlexikon in the Google book search.
  2. ^ André Hüttner: On the development of linguistic phonetics at the University of Halle (Saale) until 1961. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, pp. 119, 144.
  3. ^ André Hüttner: On the development of linguistic phonetics at the University of Halle (Saale) until 1961. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019, p. 169.
  4. ↑ See the overview of "Completed doctorates and habilitations" from the University of Halle. - A short summary of this work, which was defended in 1975 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, was published in the journal Deutsch als Fremdsprache ( Issue 3, 1977 ).
personal data
SURNAME Stötzer, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speech scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
DATE OF DEATH 2018
Place of death Friedrichroda