Germanophilia

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Germanophilia (from Latin Germani, " Germanen ", and Greek φιλία (philia), "friendship"), negatively indicated as Deutschtümlerei , denotes a general affinity to German culture , history or the German people and thus the counterpart of Germanophobia . An equation of "Teutons" and "Germans" was first made in the 16th century by Johannes Turmayr, known as Aventinus. In German , however, the term mainly exists as a literal translation of the term germanophilia , which is more commonly used in English , and is used for various cultural-historical, social and literary phenomena.

In contrast to the pejoratively used term “ Germanomania ”, “Germanophilia” was not very common in the 19th century and was not defined in dictionaries and encyclopedias such as the Grimm dictionary, Brockhaus or Pierer's universal dictionary. In contrast, the term “ Deutschthum ” in the German dictionary of 1860 was explained as follows: “Deutschthum n. [Noun] for deutschheit has only recently appeared, but it is mostly used ironically: one wants to denote exaggerated attachment to German being, so also Deutschthümelei, f. Deutschthümler, Deutschthümler and Deutschthümler. "

Literary Germanophile endeavors were particularly influenced by the literature of Sturm und Drang . For example, around 1800 young Russian writers founded the “literary society of friends” in Moscow, which says: “Sensitivity and Sturm und Drang, emotionalistic aesthetics and the pathos of passion in the works of Goethe and Schiller were the guiding stars of this group. (...) With a feeling of congeniality or at least of kinship, translations of the works of Goethe, Schiller, Kotzebue and others were made as spiritual friendship services. "

There were also Germanophile endeavors in 19th century German Jewry as a process of national identity formation and assimilation . According to Dirk Baecker , Germanophilia implies "a knowledge of other customs and behaviors outside of one's own culture, which is produced through the operation of comparing human forms of life."

literature

• Jörg Marquardt: Germanophilia in German Judaism in the 19th century. Mainz, March 18, 2011 ( ieg-ego.eu ).
• Helmut Wurm: The importance of ancient reports on the Germanic peoples for German nationalism and Germanophile anthropology in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 369-401.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germanophilia. (No longer available online.) Wissen Media Verlag, June 7, 2010, archived from the original on December 1, 2011 ; Retrieved July 15, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Johannes Aventinus: Chronica of the origin, act and come of the ancient Germans. Nuremberg 1541.
3. ↑ Helmut Wurm: The importance of ancient reports about the Germanic peoples for German nationalism and Germanophile anthropology in Germany in the 19th and early 20th centuries. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 14, 1996, pp. 369-401; here: p. 376.
4. ^ Germanomania . In: Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition. Volume 1, F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1911, p.  670 .
5. ↑ deutschthum. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860, Sp. 1053 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
6. ↑ Sandra Kersten, Manfred F. Schenke: Spiegelungen. Drafts on Identity and Alterity. Frank & Timme 2005, p. 163 ( books.google.de ).
7. ↑ Baecker, Kultur 2003, p. 65 f.
8. ^ Jörg Marquardt: Germanophilia in German Judaism in the 19th century. EGO European History Online, March 18, 2011, accessed July 15, 2011 .