Bees
Bees and bees are the common diminutives to bees . In Switzerland and Liechtenstein they are also called Bienli or Bienle .
Since the Western honey bee as a well-known type from the family of bees as a lovable, hardworking, and despite the toxic military sting applies the female animals as kind, which are diminutives Bees and Bienlein even more with ease , consistency, hard work and honesty connected . They are therefore sometimes used as a nickname , mostly for girls and women .
Bees and bees in culture
The terms bees or bees are best known from the children's song Summ, summ, summ , which August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben published in 1843 under the title bee according to a Bohemian folk tune . In 1874 Wilhelm Busch published a " Bienlein mit Gebrumm " in the poetry collection Critique of the Heart .
A professor named Baldwin Bienlein appears repeatedly in the comic series Tintin . This too is characterized above all by amiability and activity.
Bees in the scout movement
In Switzerland, girl scouts aged 6 or 7 to 10 are called Bienchen or Bienli . In some associations they were assigned to the Wölflingen around 2010 , in others they were given as a separate name for the youngest girl scouts. In Liechtenstein the youngest girl scouts ( age group 7 to 11 years) are called Bienle .
Bees in the GDR
In so-called mother books , praise and awards for schoolchildren in the GDR were documented in the form of a stamped, stylized bee, which also earned these entries the name Bienchen (also busy bees ) in GDR parlance . Even today there are motif stamps and reward cards with a bee motif.
Some kindergartens and day care centers are called bees . There was a holiday camp with this name in Schönewalde .
literature
- August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Fifty children's songs . Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1843, p. 49.
- Wilhelm Busch: Critique of the Heart . Heidelberg 1874.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bienchen, das. Duden, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2014 .
- ^ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Fifty children's songs . Verlag von Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1843, title page and p. 49 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Wilhelm Busch: She was a flower. 1873, accessed May 19, 2014 .
- ↑ His name is Bienlein, Balduin Bienlein. FAZ, March 1, 2001, accessed on May 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Integration in the forest. In: nzz.ch. January 14, 2007, accessed October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Article in the FN. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Scout Department St. Mauritius Nansen. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolf level. Pfadi Aarau, accessed on June 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Wolf level. Pfadi Schnäggebärg, accessed on June 3, 2014 .
- ^ Scouts and Girl Scouts of Liechtenstein: Steps. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; Retrieved May 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Kindergarten Bienchen e. V. Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Integrative day care center "Bienchen". Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Bienchen day care center. Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
- ^ GDR holiday camp: "Bienchen" holiday camp is being fledged again. 2013, accessed May 19, 2014 .