- Bastian Sick
Bastian Sick (pronounced|ˈbastjaːn ˈziːk) (born
17 July 1965 ) is a Germanjournalist ,translator andauthor .History
Sick was born in
Lübeck in 1965. He studiedhistory and Romancephilology , then became a journalist for Germannewspaper "Der Spiegel ".Sick wrote three books on common German grammatical mistakes, that were critically acclaimed for their humourReviews of Sick's book, the title of which translates as "The Dative is to the Genitive its Death", include "Sick's secret is his hilariousness" ("Sicks Geheimnis ist seine Heiterkeit." Review of the German newspaper "
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " on20 November 2004 [http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/19477.html] ) and "We do not mind being corrected by Bastian Sick since he has a sense of humour" ("Von Herrn Sick lassen wir uns gern eines Besseren belehren, denn er hat Humor." Review of the German newspaper "Stuttgarter Nachrichten " on17 November 2004 ). [http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/stn/page/detail.php/831465] ] and have become very popular in Germany.More than 1.5 million copies of the first of the books were sold within two years after its first publication in 2004. [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bastian_Sick] Two sequels have been published within the same time period. [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Der_Dativ_ist_dem_Genitiv_sein_Tod] ] The titles of the books called "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod " (literally "The Dative is to the Genitive its Death") use puns employing thehis genitive , which in official German is incorrect and often considered unaesthetic, instead of the correct genitive case.References
Works
* "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod". Köln / Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-462-03448-0 (Audiobook ISBN 3-89813-400-8)
* "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", Vol. 2. Köln / Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-462-03606-8 (Audiobook: ISBN 3-89813-445-8)
* "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod", Vol. 3. Kiepenhauer und Witsch 2006, ISBN 3-462-03742-0External links
* [http://www.spiegel.de/zwiebelfisch 'Zwiebelfisch' - A regular series of articles written by Sick on Spiegel Online]
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