Bastian Sick
| Bastian Sick | |
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| Born |
17 July 1965 Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein |
| Occupation | columnist, author |
| Nationality |
 Germany
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| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Notable works | Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod |
| Website | |
| http://www.bastiansick.de/ | |
Bastian Sick (German pronunciation: [ˈbastjaːn ˈzik]) (born 17 July 1965) is a German journalist and author.
Bastian Sick grew up in Ratekau, in the north of Germany near Lübeck. He went to the “Leibniz Gymnasium” in Bad Schwartau where he did his Abitur (A-level) in 1984. After his military service he studied history and Romance philology. He graduated Magister Artium. During his studies he worked as a corrector and translator for the Carlsen-Verlag (Carlsen-press). Sick explains in the foreword of the Carlsen anniversary issue “Spirou & Fantasio” that the work experience as a translator and corrector coined his sense for orthography and punctuation. In 1995 Bastian Sick started working as a documentation journalist in the photo archive of German news magazine Der Spiegel. Later in 1999 he joined the editorial team of the magazine “Spiegel online”, where he became a literary editor. In 2003 he became famous as the author of the column “Zwiebelfisch”. In those columns he writes in a funny and entertaining way about the case of doubt in the German language, for example the grammar, the spelling, the punctuation and the writing style.
In 2004, 50 of these columns were published in a book by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Cologne. The title of the book called Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (literally The Dative is to the Genitive its Death) use puns employing the his genitive, which in official German is incorrect and often considered unaesthetic, instead of the correct genitive case. More than 2 million copies of this book were sold within two years.[1] Two sequels have been published within the same time period.[2] The “Zwiebelfisch” was the first Internet column which became a bestseller after it was published as a book. Besides his columns Bastian Sick published other books with language curiosities. For instance “Happy Aua”, part 1-4. From the content of the book series “Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod” board games, computer games and calendar were produced.
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