German-Faroese Circle of Friends

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The Deutsch- Färöische Freundeskreis eV (DFF) ( Faroese Týskt-Føroyskt Vinafelag ) was founded in 1988 and is a private association for cultural cooperation between the German-speaking area and the Faroe Islands .

The DFF is the only cultural exchange organization with the Faroe Islands outside Scandinavia. The association publishes the magazine Tjaldur ("Oystercatcher"). TJALDUR contains reports from the Faroese daily press, translations of Faroese poetry and short stories. There are also book reviews and news about literature publications. The magazine appears twice a year with a volume of around 100 pages per issue.

There is also a series of publications in which u. a. a classic like the first book on the Faroe Islands, Natural and Political History of the Faroe Islands (German 1757) by Lucas Jacobson Debes was reissued.

For the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, the association gave the special publication Faroe Islands, the land of literature. Insights and discoveries about Faroese literary history as an e-book, of which the Scandinavian Astrid van Nahl emphasizes the collection of book reviews of the magazine Tjaldur and judges " A book that belongs in every relevant seminar library" .

Series of publications

  1. Christian Gebel: The Faroe Islands - History and Language History , 1988
  2. Norbert B. Vogt: Faroe Islands. Bibliography of German-language literature , 1991
  3. Carl Julian von Graba : Diary kept on a trip to Faroe in 1828 , reprographic reprint, 1993
  4. Otmar Werner : Orthography and pronunciation in Faroese using the example of proper names , 1995 ( digitized version )
  5. Ernst Krenn : The Föroyar Studies , 1996
  6. Norbert B. Vogt / Uwe Kordeck: Faroe Islands - annotated bibliography of German-language literature , 1998
  7. Detlef Knop: Faroese for Tourists , 1999
  8. Sabine Gorsemann (Ed.): The Faroe Islands in focus . Lectures of the special event “The Faroe Islands in Focus” - Language, Literature and Culture of a Small Nation on February 2nd and 3rd, 2001 at the University of Bremen.
  9. Lucas Jacobson Debes : Natural and Political History of the Faroe Islands . Copenhagen / Leipzig 1757; newly edited and commented by Norbert B. Vogt, 2005
  10. Norbert B. Vogt / Uwe Kordeck: Faroe Islands - annotated bibliography of German-language literature , 2nd, increased and expanded edition, 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDB ID 1080530-8
  2. ↑ Detlef Wildraut: From vocational school pastor to Faroe Islands expert , portrait of the former DFF chairman, Stadtmagazin Witten, 02/2003, p. 60
  3. ↑ Review by Astrid van Nahl in: Alliteratus 4/2012.
  4. ^ Review by Klaus Schreiber: Faroe Islands. In: Information resources for libraries (IFB). 7 (1999) 1/4.