Europe shorthand

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The European shorthand is a shorthand system that was developed at the beginning of 1978 by the economics teacher Jürgen Dobermann (* 1934) from Sprockhövel and six teachers from the "Deutsche Wirtschaftsfachschule" in Berlin .

The European shorthand, which is based on the self-spelling shorthand system of Karl Friedrich Scheithauer , should, in the opinion of the authors, make the writing work easier for all those who can not find their way through the jungle of German standard shorthand. This stenography system was promoted as the "shortest shorthand that ever existed" and, according to Dobermann, can be "learned in a few days". The authors also particularly emphasized the good readability. Dobermann and his team had analyzed the international shorthands and adopted the supposedly best from each system.

The font, which consists of 19 basic characters, 12 special characters and 3 character rules (German standard shorthand 56 characters, Stolze-Schrey 44 characters only for common sounds and common sounds), should, according to the inventors, be able to be used for all European languages ​​and in 10 double hours of everyone can learn. The phrase “learning is fun” was translated into shorthand in Dobermann's textbook for 22 languages.

The consonants of the European shorthand completely agree with the shorthand system by Karl Friedrich Scheithauer from 1913. The vocalizations (rigid upstroke vocalization) are only slightly changed; In comparison with Scheithauer, "a" and "ä" are only half a step in size, "ei" is only one step instead of two steps; "eu" or "äu" is 1½ steps in size. In comparison with Karl Scheithauer's shorthand system, only the character for "ö" has been given a new character. In contrast to Scheithauer's abbreviated system (full script), the European shorthand uses 6 short characters for the words "das", "dem", "den", "der", "des" und "die". Prefixes often merge with the initial sound of the word stem , as was common with Faulmann . The symbol for "ö" leads to graphical amalgamations like in Arends .

The European shorthand that Dobermann and his staff developed over eight years was also offered as a distance learning program.

literature

  • Georg van Daacke: Europe shorthand. A new system? In: Deutsche Stenografenzeitung. 6/1978, pp. 146-151.
  • J. Dobermann: DUT Europe shorthand. Berlin 1978, OCLC 698883816 .
  • Europe shorthand. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 24, 1978.
  • Fritz Haeger: Really a “new” shorthand system? In: Deutsche Stenografenzeitung. 5/1978, pp. 105-106.
  • Walter Kaden: New history of shorthand. From the creation of writing to contemporary shorthand. Dresden 1999, DNB 961534982 .
  • Easy as pie - the shortest shorthand that ever existed. In: Berliner Zeitung . January 27, 1978.
  • Franz Moser among other things: Living shorthand story. A guide to shorthand theory and shorthand history. 9th edition. Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-8045-8708-9 .