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Christian Schmutz (2014).

Christian Schmutz (born February 19, 1970 in Tafers ) is a Swiss journalist , writer and dialectologist .

Life

Dirt grew up in the Sense district in Freiburg . He completed his studies in German and communication science at the cantonal university in 1995 with a licentiate. Today he lives in the city of Freiburg .

Since 2000, Schmutz has been working as a part-time editor for the Freiburger Nachrichten and since 2006 as a part-time dialect editor for Radio SRF .

Create

Professionally and outside of work, Schmutz's work is particularly dedicated to his German-Franconian homeland. In addition to his journalistic activities, he writes on local history and local dialectal topics and writes slam poetry in his native dialect. One of his novels and two of his spoken word texts were released on phonograms.

In addition, the initiator of the gastro and cultural project is Wier Seisler, which took over the Taferser Gasthof St. Martin in 2011. Since 2012 he has been the president of its cultural sector.

Dialectology

In accordance with a concept presented by Walter Haas , Schmutz developed the 700-page Sensler German Dictionary, which appeared for the first time in 2000 and has since seen two new editions. This dictionary is the most scientifically sound of all Swiss-German regional dictionaries and, in addition to the dissertation published in 1927 by Walter Henzen and the eight-volume linguistic atlas of German-speaking Switzerland, forms the basis for research into the highest Alemannic Senslerdeutsch .

Since 2010, Schmutz has also been writing popular word stories for the Sensler Museum in Tafers, which are published on the museum's website as Word of the Month . From 2012 to 2015 he blogged in the Freiburger Nachrichten on linguistic issues, and for Promoting Page fribourg.ch he created a humorous Seislertütsch crash course . In 2019 his book Gang ga ggùgge was published. Finally understand Senslerdeutsch .

literature

So far, Schmutz has written two historical novels, When the Night Birds Circled (2007 - now in its third edition) and Bachab. Falli Hölli disappears (2012). The material for another book, mirror images. Life stories from Freiburg (2014), he compiled together with Daniel Fasel using the oral history method . In his first story, D Seisler hiis böös (2017), the self-awareness of the Germans in the Sense district is targeted .

He is also co-author of four plays (2009, 2013, 2015, 2017) with Mark Kessler, one of which, D Hindercher-Banda, was played three seasons in a row. Also Kalendergeschichten , cabaret and lyrics written by him.

Slam poetry

After all, dirt is active in the slam poetry scene. He calls himself Slämsler (merged from Släm and Seisler ), as his texts are written in Senslerdeutsch (Seislertütsch) . Since 2009 he has been writing and presenting one or two such spoken word projects a year. The whole evening was Senslerdeutsch soundet right (2010), and language games on Röstigraben (2014) and dialect for Welsche (2015) had a special thrust .

Publications (selection)

  • (together with Walter Haas :) Sensler German dictionary. Dialect dictionary of the Sense district in the canton of Friborg including the city of Friborg and the parish of Gurmels. Paulus, Freiburg (Switzerland) 2000, 2nd edition 2004, 3rd edition 2013.
  • When the night birds circled. Paulus, Freiburg 2007 (and two further editions); as audio book 2009.
  • (together with Mark Kessler): D Hintercher-Banda. First performance in 2009.
  • Bachab. Falli Hölli disappears. Paulus, Freiburg 2012.
  • (together with Daniel Fasel :) Mirror images. Life stories from Freiburg. Paulus, Freiburg 2014.
  • D Seisler hiis angry. Narration with audio CD. Zytglogge, Basel 2017.
  • Gang ga ggùgge. Finally understand Senslerdeutsch. Zytglogge, Basel 2019.

Spoken Word Projects

  • Dialect. From 5 years of gägäWärt (2009, also on sound carrier)
  • Senslerdeutsch soundet right (2010)
  • But hutt. A tribute to Ernst Eggimann (2012, also on sound carrier)
  • Language games on the Röstigraben (2014)
  • Dialect for Welsche (2015)
  • Lolologopedic Language Comprehension (2017)

Web links

Commons : Christian Schmutz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wier Seisler. Gastro & culture.
  2. ↑ Preface. In: Christian Schmutz, Walter Haas: Sensler German dictionary. Paulus, Freiburg 2000, p. 7 f.
  3. ↑ Word of the Month , on senslermuseum.ch. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ Seislerblog , in the Freiburger Nachrichten 2012-2015; alternately with Hildegard Emmenegger. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ Seislertütsch - a Chrashkurs on: fribourg.ch of 29 September 2014. Accessed November 12, 2016th
personal data
SURNAME Dirt, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss journalist, writer and dialectologist
DATE OF BIRTH 19th February 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Tafers