Friendship book
The friendship book (Freundebuch) is a modern form of the poetry album . This is a firmly bound book in which you can answer simple questions about yourself.
Emergence
The ancestor of today's friendship book is the album amicorum or Stammbuch . It spread from the 16th century and was widely used by the bourgeoisie and students in the 18th and 19th centuries.
"Give the book to Goennern and hand it over to friends and playmates / Hand it over to the hurrying man who is passing by. / Whoever gives you the kind word, the gift of taking / piles up the noble treasure of sweet memories "
Content of friendship books
In poetry albums, it is more likely that poems are written down for friends, while friendship books are used to write down personal entries on the preferences of the person making the entries. Usually there is also space for a photo. Contents of a friendship book entry can be:
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album amicorum / family book / memory or friendship book
- ↑ The Führer Goethe treasure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2000 ( online ).