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Association names Dresden TU Rector as Language Adulterator 2024
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“E-Teaching Day” and “Fuck-Up Night” – for these word creations, the Rector of the TU Dresden received a negative award: the title of Language Adulterator of the Year 2024.
Dresden. The German Language Association (VDS) has awarded the negative prize “Language Adulterator of the Year” 2024 and voted the Rector of the TU Dresden, Ursula M. Staudinger, in first place. At the TU Dresden, an invitation was given to a “Fuck-Up Night” in April following an “E-Teaching Day”. The aim was to tell “stories of failure”. Language must remain understandable, especially at universities, where people from different social backgrounds come together, explained VDS Chairman Walter Krämer: “Teachers must not hide behind supposedly trendy phrases and a mishmash of language.”
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Second place went to the Leipzig Book Fair. In 2024, the “Denglish virus” had hit the Leipzig Book Fair, the association explained. The motto “Who’s still reading?” shows pandering to a zeitgeist that put English ahead of other languages, criticized Krämer.
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The Hamburg Kunsthalle was voted in third place. The Kunsthalle and its director Alexander Klar greeted their visitors with gender asterisks on the website, the association criticized on Friday in Dortmund. The state-supported organization “HateAid” and the animal rights organization Peta followed in fourth and fifth place.
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The negative prize “Language Adulterator of the Year” has been awarded since 1997 and recognizes individuals or institutions for particular linguistic errors. Past winners include Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP), EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (CDU), the Evangelical Church in Germany and the news formats “Tagesschau” and “heute”.
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