Bohemian Forest songs

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As Sumava songs on the one hand refers to the entirety of German folksongs composed of the Bohemian Forest in what is now the Czech Republic comes, on the other hand after the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia often incurred sentimental songs that recall the lost homeland in Šumava. The song “ Tief drin im Böhmerwald” , created by Andreas Hartauer , is also called the Bohemian Forest Song .

As a result of the expulsion of the Bohemian Forests from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War, these songs were spread in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg and Austria , as the displaced people mainly settled there. On the other hand, it is almost unknown in the Czech Republic today. In addition to songs in standard German, there are also numerous songs in the Bohemian Forest dialect that was previously spoken in South Bohemia , for example the song Auf d 'Wulda .

The folklorist Gustav Jungbauer was one of the most famous field researchers and collectors of folk songs from the Bohemian Forest, who recorded numerous songs. To this day, these songs are cultivated by choral and homeland associations in Germany and Austria, for example the Bohemian Forest Singing and Folk Dance Group in Munich .

The song Tief drin im Böhmerwald , which at that time had a special meaning for the expellees and was therefore often interpreted after 1945 , achieved great popularity .

literature

  • Brigitte Schaal / Upper Austria. Folk songs: Bohemian Forest songs. Songs from the Jungbauer collection series Volkslieder No. 41, folk song and folk music in Upper Austria. Issue 101, ed. to Upper Austria. State exhibition "Old traces, new paths", Linz 2013.
  • Klaus Petermayr / Stefan Gaisbauer / Upper Austria. Volksliedwerk / Adalbert Stifter Institute: Crossing the border - language and music. Linz 2003, ISBN 3-9501624-2-9 .
  • Bavarian Regional Association for Homeland Care: The folk music of the German expellees and resettlers and their influence on Bavaria. Lectures and results of the seminar in Berching 1991, Munich 1993.
  • Friedrich Saathen: Deep in the Bohemian Forest - folk songs from the Bohemian Forest. ISBN 978-3-86512-136-3 .
  • Heinrich Micko : Wuldaland. Chants in the Bohemian Forest dialect. Vienna 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ brandenburger-rundschau.de: Das Böhmerwaldlied ( Memento from February 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive )