Bees

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Honey 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

Copy of a German beer disc from 1753

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

Bees stamp in a so-called mother booklet (GDR, 1986)

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

Web links

Wiktionary: Bees  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bienchen, das. Duden, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2014 .
  2. ^ August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben: Fifty children's songs . Verlag von Mayer and Wigand, Leipzig 1843, title page and p. 49 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Busch: She was a flower. 1873, accessed May 19, 2014 .
  4. ↑ His name is Bienlein, Balduin Bienlein. FAZ, March 1, 2001, accessed on May 16, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Integration in the forest. In: nzz.ch. January 14, 2007, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Article in the FN. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Scout Department St. Mauritius Nansen. Accessed August 31, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Wolf level. Pfadi Aarau, accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Wolf level. Pfadi Schnäggebärg, accessed on June 3, 2014 .
  10. ^ Scouts and Girl Scouts of Liechtenstein: Steps. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2014 ; Retrieved May 29, 2014 .
  11. ↑ Kindergarten Bienchen e. V. Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Integrative day care center "Bienchen". Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Bienchen day care center. Retrieved May 16, 2014 .
  14. ^ GDR holiday camp: "Bienchen" holiday camp is being fledged again. 2013, accessed May 19, 2014 .