Brandenburg-Berlin dictionary

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The Brandenburg-Berlin Dictionary (BBW) is one of the large-scale German dictionaries and covers the dialects of Berlin and Brandenburg .

Characteristic

The BBW is a scientifically based description dictionary.

Particular problems in processing the dictionary material arose primarily from the fact that the field of work includes both East Low German and East Central German dialects. In purely formal terms, this requires a double key word approach where a lemma is available in both High German and Low German sound. Here, the High German form in capital letters is used as a lemma of order, a dialect based on Middle Marks as the main dialect form.

The BBW, which describes both Low German and High German dialects, was more problematic because the influence of High German Berlinish led to an increasing decline in the Low German dialects of Central Markets in the working area since the second half of the 19th century . These problems are mainly reflected in the material that was obtained from questionnaires between 1950 and 1959: In the North Mark region , the dialectal Low German basic class is generally still evident, whereas in the Middle Mark region it is often only indicated in fragments.

history

  • Establishment of the workplace in 1939
  • Material survey mainly 1949 to 1959 (by Anneliese Bretschneider )
  • Start of publication 1968,
  • 2001 Completion and termination of the job

In 1968 the so-called academy reform began at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin , the aim of which was to enforce the SED's principles of science policy at the academy and at what was then the Institute for German Language and Literature. The dialect dictionaries were targeted by SED criticism from the very beginning , and it was found with regard to these ventures that they “deal with issues of 19th century bourgeois science that are irrelevant for socialist society”. The fact that comparable dictionaries were edited in the Federal Republic of Germany, Switzerland and Austria ultimately led to the dialect dictionaries, insofar as they were already published, being continued; In 1971 they became companies of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig . At this point in time, 5 deliveries of Volume 1 had been published by the BBW. Under the care of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, the publication could be continued continuously in the following years.

Material base

  • 1 note archive with approx. 800,000 notes
  • 1 note archive as a register for the questionnaire material with approx. 40,000 notes.

publication

Start of publication: 1968

  • Volume 1 (A-E): 1976
  • Volume 2 (F - K): 1985
  • Volume 3 (I - Schutzmann): 1994
  • Volume 4 (Schwabbel - Z): 2001

literature

  • A. Bretschneider: The Brandenburg-Berlin Dictionary . In: Deutsches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 4 (1985), pp. 438–444.
  • G. Ising: The Brandenburg-Berlin Dictionary. In: Reports on dialectological research in the German Democratic Republic. Edited by of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin, Institute for German Language and Literature, Berlin 1965, pp. 11-14.
  • J. Wiese: For the publication of the Brandenburg-Berlin dictionary. In: Sprachpflege 18 (1969), pp. 49-52.
  • J. Wiese: Brandenburg-Berlin dictionary. History, tasks, form of representation. In: Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig: History of selected work projects. Edited by H. Penzlin, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999, pp. 123-129.