Bastian Sick

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Bastian Sick (* 17 July 1965 in Lübeck) is a German journalist, translator and author.

[edit] History

Sick was born in Lübeck in 1965. He studied history and Romance philology, then became a journalist for German newspaper Der Spiegel.

Sick wrote three books on common German grammatical mistakes, that were critically acclaimed for their humour[1] and have become very popular in Germany.[2] The titles of the books called Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (literally The Dative is 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.

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  1. ^ Reviews of Sick's book, the title of which translates as "The Dative is the Genitive its Death", include "Sick's secret is his hilariousness" (Sicks Geheimnis ist seine Heiterkeit. Review of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 20 November 2004 [1]) and "We do not mind to be 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 on 17 November 2004).[2]
  2. ^ More than 1.5 million copies of the first of the books were sold within two years after its first publication in 2004.[3] Two sequels have been published within the same time period.[4]

[edit] Works

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