yupp, it was the missing myspell-de-de package. I thougth it would have been installed while chosing "install missing language translation packs". But I was wrong with that. Now it works fine. And my user wordbooks work again, too.
Thank you. btw. Synaptic doesn't work. Always asks for the root pw. -- openoffice word correction gone https://launchpad.net/bugs/89844 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs