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Prof. Dr. Danuta Rytel-Schwarz

Prof. Dr. Danuta Rytel-Schwarz

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Institut für Slavistik
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig

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Prof. Dr. Danuta Rytel-Schwarz

Prof. Dr. Danuta Rytel-Schwarz

Emeritus

Institut für Slavistik
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig

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Abstract

Danuta Rytel-Schwarz (née Rytel-Kuc) has been Professor of Western Slavic Linguistics at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig since 1999. She studied Polish and Slavic Philology (specializing in Czech) at the Silesian University of Katowice. After her studies she worked as a research associate at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where she received her doctorate in 1981 and her habilitation in 1990 in the field of Contrastive Linguistics: Polish - Czech - German. From 1994 to 1999 she was a lecturer and professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Warsaw. She is a former DAAD and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. Her research interests include the study of the language systems of Polish and Czech in comparison to German, contrastive linguistics in the context of valence grammar and communicative grammar, and bilingual lexicography.



Professional career

  • since 10/1999
    Professor of Western Slavic Linguistics at the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Leipzig
  • 11/2005 - 01/2006
    Two-month guest professorship at the Charles University in Prague (WS 2005/2006)
  • 09/1994 - 10/1999
    Lecturer, Professor at the Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Warsaw
  • 12/1977 - 08/1994
    Research assistant at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
  • 04/1994 - 09/1994
    Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Institute for German Language in Mannheim)
  • 10/1990 - 03/1992
    Scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Institute for German Language in Mannheim)
  • 02/1981 - 12/1990
    Habilitation in Slavic Philology; Habilitation thesis: German passivum and man-sentences and their translation in Czech and Polish
  • 08/1983 - 07/1985
    DAAD Scholarship (Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Mannheim)
  • 12/1977 - 06/1981
    PhD in Slavic Linguistics; PhD thesis: Lexical means of expression of epistemic modality in Czech and Polish

Education

  • 10/1974 - 02/1979
    Master's degree at the Silesian University of Katowice: Slavic philology/ focus on Bohemistics; Master's thesis: Środki wyrażania prawdziwości sądu w języku czeskim i polskim
  • 10/1971 - 06/1976
    Master's degree at the Silesian University of Katowice: Polish Philology; Master's thesis: Polskie konstrukcje z imiesłowami czynnymi nieodmiennymi i ich odpowiedniki w tłumaczeniu czeskim

Danuta Rytel-Schwarz's research interests include:

  • Study of the language systems of Polish and Czech in comparison to German
  • contrastive linguistics within the framework of valence grammar
  • bilingual lexicography
  • Western Slavic phraseology

  • Rytel-Schwarz, D.
    Taschenwörterbuch Polnisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Polnisch
    Hildesheim [u.a.]: Olms. 2012.
    ISBN: 978-3-487-08504-3
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  • Rytel-Schwarz, D.; Jurasz, A.; Cirko, L.; Engel, U.
    Die unflektierbaren Wörter. Band 4. Deutsch-polnische kontrastive Grammatik, zweite, neu bearbeitete und ergänzte Auflage
    Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag. 2012.
    ISBN: 978-3-487-42249-7
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  • Rytel-Schwarz, D.; Jurasz, A.; Cirko, L.; Engel, U.
    Der Satz. Band 2. Deutsch-polnische kontrastive Grammatik, zweite, neu bearbeitete und ergänzte Auflage
    Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag. 2018.
    ISBN: 978-3-487-14783-3
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more publications

  • Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Goldmedaille "Für Verdienste für die Schlesische Universität"
    Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta (Institut für Slavistik)
    awarded in 2014 by Rektor der Schlesischen Universität Katowice.
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  • Andere herausragende Auszeichnungen: Polonicum-Preis der Universität Warschau für die Leipziger Westslawistik: „Nagroda Polonicum 2012“ – für herausragende Erfolge bei der Verbreitung der polnischen Sprache und des Wissens über die polnische Geschichte und Kultur“
    Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta (Institut für Slavistik)
    awarded in 2012 by Rektor der Universität Warschau.
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more awards

  • Institut für Slavistik
    Binationaler Studiengang "B.A. Interkulturelle Kommunikation und Translation Tschechisch – Deutsch"
    Start Date of Collaboration: 06/10/2014
    External participating organisations: Karlsuniversität Prag (Prag, Czech Republic)
    Involved persons: Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta
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  • Institut für Slavistik
    Internationaler Studiengang Bachelor PLUS "Westslawistik interkulturell"
    Start Date of Collaboration: 05/10/2009
    External participating organisations: Karlsuniversität Prag (Prag, Czech Republic); Uniwersytet Wrocławski (Breslau, Poland)
    Involved persons: Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta
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more cooperations

  • Übersetzungsworkshop
    Die Suche nach des Pudels Kern / Hledáme jádro pudla
    Institut für Slavistik
    Event Organiser: Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta; Heinz, Christof; Michálková, Bela
    06/11/2019 – 08/11/2019
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  • Konferenz
    Achtung, ein großer Autor! Pozor, velikáni! Milan Kundera und Bohumil Hrabal neu betrachtet
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Colombi, Matteo; Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta
    14/02/2019 – 18/02/2019
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  • Kolloquium
    Staatsmann, Intellektueller, Visionär: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk revisited
    Slawische Literaturwissenschaft und Kulturstudien (Schwerpunkt Westslawistik)
    Event Organiser: Artwinska, Anna; Colombi, Matteo; Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta
    02/11/2018 – 03/11/2018
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  • Summer School
    Identität(en) im mitteleuropäischen Dreiländereck
    Institut für Slavistik
    Event Organiser: Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta; Artwinska, Anna; Ohme, Andreas
    18/09/2017 – 28/09/2017
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  • Konferenz
    Intra- und interlinguale Zugänge zur deutschen Phraseologie und Parömiologie
    Institut für Slavistik
    Event Organiser: Rytel-Schwarz, Danuta; Jurasz, Alina; Szczek, Joanna; Gondek, Anna
    16/03/2017 – 18/03/2017
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more events

  • Introduction to Slavic Linguistics

    Lecture for B. A. Western Slavic Studies, Eastern Slavic Studies and Teaching Degree in Polish, Russian and Czech

  • Phonetics and morphological structures of the Polish language

    Seminar for B. A. Western Slavic Studies and Teaching Degree in Polish

  • Phonetics and morphological structures of the Czech language

    Seminar for B. A. Western Slavic Studies, Teaching Degree in Czech and B. A. Intercultural Communication and Translation Czech-German

  • Linguistics/ Project work: Polish, Czech and German phraseology in contrast

    Seminar for B. A. Western Slavic Studies

  • Scientific working techniques

    Seminar/ Exercise for B. A. Western Slavic Studies

  • Translation strategies and procedures for the Polish-German language pair

    Seminar for B. A. Western Slavic Studies

  • Comparison of languages

    Colloquium for B. A. West Slavic Studies and B. A. Intercultural Communication and Translation Czech-German

  • Word formation and lexicology of the Polish language

    Seminar for B. A. West Slavic Studies and Teaching Degree in Polish

  • Word formation and lexicology of the Czech language

    Seminar for B. A. West Slavic Studies, Teaching Degree in Czech and B. A. Intercultural Communication and Translation Czech-German

  • Selected Topics in Contemporary Slavic Languages: Problems of Text and Variety Linguistics

    Seminar for M. A. Slavic Studies

  • Selected aspects of Slavic linguistics: Particle research

    Colloquium for M. A. Slavic Studies

  • West Slavic language history

    Exercise for M. A. Slavic Studies and Teaching Degree in Polish and Czech