Bavarian root
The Bavarian Language Root is an award given by the Bavarian Language Association. The prize is awarded every year to personalities who consistently use Bavarian dialect in public . Only the dialects North Bavarian and Central Bavarian are taken into account, which is why the price was initially called North Bavarian-Central Bavarian Language Root .
When the Carinthian television commentator and presenter Armin Assinger was awarded the prize in 2009, but the Carinthian language together with the Tyrolean language forms the South Bavarian language, the name of the award was changed. He was awarded the prize for the conscious use of the Carinthian dialect in his presentations.
The language price is intended to counterbalance the general trend. The mathematicians Steven Strogatz and Daniel Abrams have extrapolated that one of 6,500 languages worldwide will die out every 14 days. According to this, 90% of all languages will disappear in this century alone. The reason is always the same: if two languages are in competition, the language that has a higher public reputation always survives.
The award-winning celebrities should help to raise the image of the Bavarian dialect. This is to be promoted by the multiplier effect created by the awardees.
Award winners
- 2005: Alfred Reisinger
- 2006: Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2007: Hans-Jürgen Buchner
- 2008: The well-being
- 2009: Armin Assinger
- 2010: Christian Stückl
- 2011: Georg Ringsgwandl
- 2012: Luise Kinseher
- 2013: Marcus H. Rosenmüller
- 2014: Stefan Dettl
- 2015: Michael, Stofferl and Karli Well (Wellbrüder aus'm Biermoos) and their children Maria, Matthias and Maresa (NouWell Cousines)
- 2016: Rainer Maria Schießler
- 2017: Martina Schwarzmann
- 2018: Berti Meisinger , aerospace engineer, for her radio coverage of the start of Alexander Gerst 's second space flight to the ISS
- 2019: Richard Loibl
- 2020 Werner Schmidbauer (musician)
supporting documents
- ^ Bavarian dialect award for an Austrian. August 10, 2009, accessed March 9, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Language Prize "Bavarian Language Root"
- ↑ Cabaret artist Kinseher awarded "Bairischer Sprachwurzel" . Online on Die Welt from August 12, 2012.
- ↑ Hans Kratzer: New dialectal self-confidence. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 10, 2014, accessed August 10, 2014 .
- ^ Award for Well brothers and their children ( Memento from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: br.de , August 9, 2015.
- ↑ Language root for the Munich pastor Schießler - "Des is wia a gold medal". Bayerischer Rundfunk , August 14, 2016, accessed on August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ "Bavarian language root" for Martina Schwarzmann - WELT. Retrieved August 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Bavarian in Space - Dialect Prize at Straubing Gäubodenvolksfest. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
- ↑ "Bavarian language root" for museum director Loibl
- ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayern-sprachwurzel-schmidbauer-1.5005891 accessed on August 22, 2020