Appendix:GfdS words of the year

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The following are recognized words from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) word of the year. The often controversial un-word of the year split off from the GfdS in 1994, and is selected by a separate privately-led jury.

List

Year Word of the Year "Unwort" Notes
1971 aufmüpfig
1977 Szene
1978 konspirative Wohnung (“safehouse”, literally “conspiratory appartment”) Kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer
1979 Holocaust
1980 Rasterfahndung computer-aided anti-terror investigations in Germany
1981 Nullösung “Zero Option” proposed by Ronald Reagan
1982 Ellenbogengesellschaft
1983 heißer Herbst mass-protests by the Friedensbewegung in Germany against the NATO Double-Track Decision
1984 Umweltauto
1985 Glykol 1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal in Austria
1986 Tschernobyl Chernobyl disaster
1987 Aids, Kondom
1988 Gesundheitsreform vote on the German health reform law
1989 Reisefreiheit
1990 die neuen Bundesländer German reunification
1991 Besserwessi ausländerfrei first Unwort of the year
1992 Politikverdrossenheit ethnische Säuberung
1993 Sozialabbau Überfremdung
1994 Superwahljahr Peanuts Hilmar Kopper § Controversy
1995 Multimedia Diätenanpassung
1996 Sparpaket Rentnerschwemme
1997 Reformstau Wohlstandsmüll
1998 Rot-Grün (literally “Red-Green”) SPD-Green coalition formed after the 1998 German federal election
1999 Millennium Kollateralschaden
2000 Schwarzgeldaffäre (“black money affair”) CDU donations scandal
2001 der elfte September Gotteskrieger September 11 attacks
2002 Teuro Ich-AG launch of the Euro (notes and coins)
2003 das alte Europa (“old Europe”) Tätervolk remarks by Donald Rumsfeld about the Old Europe and New Europe
Tätervolkdiskussion
2004 Hartz IV Humankapital vote on the Hartz IV reforms in Germany
2005 Bundeskanzlerin Entlassungsproduktivität Angela Merkel (chancellor from Nov 2005–Dec 2021)
2006 Fanmeile 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany
2007 Klimakatastrophe Herdprämie 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to IPCC and Al Gore, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
Bundeselterngeld- und Elternzeitgesetz
2008 Finanzkrise 2007–2008 financial crisis
2009 Abwrackprämie betriebsratsverseucht introduction of the Umweltprämie in Germany
2010 Wutbürger alternativlos protests against Stuttgart 21 and Thilo Sarrazin
there is no alternative § 2010s austerity
2011 Stresstest Döner-Morde 2011 European Union bank stress test
NSU murders
2012 Rettungsroutine (literally “saving routine”) Opfer-Abo European debt crisis
Jörg Kachelmann § False rape accusation
2013 GroKo Sozialtourismus grand coalition following the 2013 German federal election
2014 Lichtgrenze (literally “light border”) Lügenpresse Berlin Wall 25th anniversary
2015 Flüchtlinge Gutmensch 2015 European migrant crisis
2016 postfaktisch Volksverräter
2017 Jamaika-Aus alternative Fakten failure of the Jamaika-Koalition
2018 Heißzeit 2018 European heat wave, pun on Eiszeit (“ice age”)
2019 Respektrente Klimahysterie Grundrente (“basic pension”)
2020 Corona-Pandemie Corona-Diktatur
2021 Wellenbrecher (“breakwater”, literally “wave breaker”) Pushback COVID-19 waves
2022 Zeitenwende Klimaterroristen Zeitenwende speech
2023 Krisenmodus Remigration Meeting of right-wing extremists at Potsdam in 2023
2024 Ampel-Aus biodeutsch 2024 German government crisis

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