Council for German Orthography

The Council for German Orthography ( RdR ) was jointly established in 2004 as a successor to the Interstate Commission for German spelling of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, South Tyrol, Liechtenstein and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

The office of the Council is based at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim. Chairman is the history of the former Bavarian Minister of Culture Hans Zehetmair, who was re- elected on 25 March 2011 for a further term.

Order

On the website of the Council for German spelling of the job is described as follows: " The Council for German Orthography is an intergovernmental body that has been entrusted on the part of public authorities in order to preserve the uniformity of spelling in the German language and the spelling on the basis of orthographic rules develop in the extent strictly necessary. The Council is therefore the authoritative arbiter in matters of German spelling and are as such with the official rules out the reference for the German spelling. The Council shall meet at least twice a year for a meeting. "

Formation

Especially in the summer of 2004 it was once more been a heated debate about the meaning of the spelling reform in which, for example, the then Minister President of Lower Saxony, Christian Wulff, and several journalists (Stefan Aust by Spiegel-Verlag, Mathias Dopfner by Axel Springer -Verlag) had publicly called for the return of the traditional spelling. After the German Prime Ministers' Conference had unanimously approved the reform in November 2004, the Council for German Orthography in which critics of the reform are represented, founded as a successor to the Interstate Commission for German spelling was.

Composition

Chairman: Hans Zehetmair

• Germany Germany: 18 councilors
• Austria Austria: 9 councilors
• Switzerland Switzerland: 9 councilors
• South Tyrol: 1 councilor
• German speaking Community of Belgium: one council member
• Liechtenstein Liechtenstein: 1 councilor

The Council comprises 39 members. 18 of them are from Germany, nine each from Austria and Switzerland, and one representative each from Liechtenstein, Bolzano - South Tyrol and German-speaking community of Belgium. Decisions are taken by a two-thirds majority. The Council was constituted on 17 December 2004. The Council comprises both supporters and critics of the spelling reform of. In the press release of the Standing Conference of 15 October 2004 the then President Doris ancestors had expressly stated that the Council would be marked " in its composition by a high degree of plurality ," and he was " a fair offer particularly to the critics and critics '. The strict opponents of reform Theodor Ickler forsook the counsel in February 2006.

Luxembourg, which did not participate already in the drafting of the reform, the reformed German spelling, however, introduced by government decree to Luxembourg's schools, does not participate in the Council for German Orthography. Othon new, Assistant Inspector in the Ministry of Education, stated in August 2004, the new spelling will well accepted by the Luxembourg teachers and students because of their simplifications. Luxembourg drew as "non German -speaking country " unfortunately no right to decide in which direction it now goes further, though, in contrast to this basic setting the other hand, both part of the Francophonie as well as members of the Académie française has.

Correction suggestions

Regarding the qualitative details: → innovations of the German spelling reform of 1996

In April 2005, the Council had published initial proposals for correcting the spelling reform, which dealt with the separate and coupled together. So, for example, are again more verbs or verbs are written together in combination with adjectives, which together have a different meaning as isolated. For example: according to the 1996 reform " canonize ", according to the proposals " canonize ". Also " get to know " can thus be written together again. The introduced with the reform of spelling " feel sorry " was contrary, deleted, ever since then, only the notation " feel sorry ", which was introduced in 2004 as a variant. The usual pre-reform spelling " sorry " should continue to be considered wrong. Hans Zehetmair announcement " sick leave " should " be written together again ", but is somewhat misleading, as that should be " sick leave " written together only since the 1996 reform (traditional spelling, " sick leave "). In this case, the reformed notation is maintained.

On 12 April 2005 it was announced also that " undisputed " parts of the reform according to the resolution of the Standing Conference should be binding in all schools and authorities as scheduled August 1, 2005, so as not to unnecessarily confuse students and teachers. These include the case of double s ( ss) and sharp s (ß ) according to the heyseschen s- sensitive - for example, that instead of that - that control the coincidence of three identical consonants, the hyphen - sensitive, case- lowercase letters as well as the foreign word. However, Bavaria and North Rhine -Westphalia announced that they do not stick to this decision, even though they had supported him. So have until August 2006 these two states continue the transitional arrangements in force.

On 4 June 2005, the Council adopted its proposal to revise the separate and coupled together, which should largely restore the usage of the traditional spelling.

On 3 February 2006 the Council presented correction proposals on case- sensitive. For example, should the capitalization of "you" in letters as well as compounds of the type " Blackboard " and " first aid" be allowed again. The measures introduced by the 1996 reform spellings " go bust " and " go bankrupt " should now " go bankrupt " and " go bankrupt " are written while before the reform " go for broke " and " go bankrupt " wrote. The introduced with the 1996 reform capitalization of times of the day such as " morning " and " tomorrow night " should be retained.

This correction proposals of the Council to the different areas of spelling have been end of March 2006 adopted unanimously by the Prime Ministers of the 16 states and came into force on 1 August 2006.

On 22 June 2007, the Rechtschreibrat hit to its tenth session. No changes to the rules were adopted. According to the Chairman of the Council Zehetmair the spelling reform is now " bagged " after the widespread adoption of rules by the FAZ and the print media. For the next meeting, inter alia, the review of sound-letter mapping (eg vegetables ) is planned.

Since then, the modified official rules in 2006 came into force, the Council shall monitor the use in writing and submitted in December 2010, a second report. The Standing Conference entitled the Council to independent minor changes of the official dictionary creation, so that the adjustments proposed in the report of a few foreign word spellings could be incorporated directly.

Eponymous club

From the institution described here, the club was founded in Munich in 2004 advice is to distinguish eV for German orthography.