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Manfred Riebe

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About myself

• My name is Manfred Riebe and I have about 20 namesakes in Germany.

• Born in 1938 in Elbing / Westpreußen (West Prussia).

• Member of the Protestant Church.

• Address: Max-Reger-Str. 99, D-90571 Schwaig bei Nürnberg

• Profession: Before retirement I used to be a secondary school teacher and I hold a degree in Business/Economics like MA.

• Stages of my life after the post-war expulsion: Elbing (West Prussia), Stegelitz bei Burg (Sachsen-Anhalt, Russian occupied zone), Burg bei Magdeburg, Altforweiler (area of the River Saar, at that time under French occupation), Magdeburg, West-Berlin, Konstanz (completion of grammar school education), Villingen in the Black Forest (apprenticeship) and Munich, Mannheim und Nuremberg, „Germany's treasure chest“ (my second home since 1964).
• Grammar school education was funded through manual work in the building trade, paper rounds, work as a security guard etc.

• Higher education was financed through savings from my apprenticeship, work as an educator („Präzeptor“) at the boarding school of the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Gymnasium, Ott-Heinrich-Stift in Mannheim-Neckarau, und in Nuremberg through manual work and paper rounds.
• Board member of the Verein für deutsche Rechtschreibung und Sprachpflege e.V. (VRS) - Initiative gegen die Rechtschreibreform – http://www.vrs-ev.de/vorstand.php#riebe (Society for German spelling and language cultivation - initiative against the spelling reform).
• Head of the Initiative „Wir Lehrer gegen die Rechtschreibreform“ (Teachers against the spelling reform).
• In the German Wikipedia I started writing articles in February 2004.

Further details (in German) concerning my biography, career, the protest against the spelling reform, publications and weblinks can be found here: [[1]]

Aims

Writing and Saving Articles

Articles which I wrote (in German):

• Friedrich Denk[later worsened]

• Friedrich Denk [My original Article]

• Theodor Ickler [later worsened]

• Theodor Ickler [My original Article]

• Hans Krieger [deleted]

• Hans Krieger [My original Article]

• Manfred Riebe [deleted]

• Manfred Riebe [My original Article]

• Verein für deutsche Rechtschreibung und Sprachpflege [later worsened]

• Verein für deutsche Rechtschreibung und Sprachpflege [My original Article]

• Initiative „Wir Lehrer gegen die Rechtschreibreform“ [later worsened]

• Initiative „Wir Lehrer gegen die Rechtschreibreform“ [My original Article]

Editing Articles

My first contributions to Wikipedia articles, later worsened:

25.02.2004 Theodor Ickler

25.02.-02.03.2004 Orthographie

25.02.-04.03.2004 Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996: Kritik und Apologetik

26.02.-07.03.2004 Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1996

28.02.-03.03.2004 Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1944

01.03.-05.03.2004 Rechtschreibreform

01.03.2004 Deutsche Rechtschreibung

05.03.2004 Deutsche Sprache

Further articles still to be edited:

11.02.2004 Reform der deutschen Rechtschreibung von 1901

15.02.2004 Geschichte der deutschen Rechtschreibung

15.08.2004 Deutsche Rechtschreibung im 19. Jahrhundert

15.08.2004 Klassische deutsche Rechtschreibung = irreführend bezeichnet als: Deutsche Rechtschreibung im 19. Jahrhundert

15.08.2004 Neue deutsche Rechtschreibung

15.02.2005 Alte deutsche Rechtschreibung

The ß Eszett

Das/dass

Duden

List of the critics of the German spelling reform from 1996

List of the printed media, which returned to the traditional orthography

List of reform-free newspapers and magazines

List of german words out of the English language

List of german words in the English language

And last, but not least:

Deutschsprachiger Raum

Deutsche Sprache in den USA

Pennsylvania Dutch

Texasdeutsch

Und nicht zuletzt:

Germany

German language

German alphabet

Rechtschreibreform

German spelling reform

German spelling reform of 1996

English orthography

Spelling

Spelling reform

Newspeak (George Orwell) - Novlangue (fr.) - Neusprech

Big Brother (1984) - Big Brother (fr.) - Großer Bruder

Information about the German spelling reform

• Professor Theodor Ickler about WIKIPEDIA and the German spelling reform

• Jean-Marie Zemb: Welche Rechtschreibreform ist liberaler, die französische oder die deutsche? (Jean-Marie Zemb: Which Spelling reform ist more liberal, the french or the german?)

• Theodor Ickler: To whom does the German language belong?

• Elke Philburn: Reiner Kunze on the Aura of Words

Procedure

• Protest against deletion campaigns - construction against destruction

• Help for internet newbies against vandalism (deletion, shifting, blocking)

• Mediation procedure without mediators!

• Banning procedure

Toolbox

(Will soon be continued.)