Manfred Mergel
Manfred Mergel (* 1959 in Göppingen ) is a Swabian dialect preacher and dialect author.
Mergel was pastor in Gärtringen (near Böblingen), Simmozheim (near Weil der Stadt) and has been pastor in Aach (near Freudenstadt) since 2014. His current service mandate includes promoting dialect sermons in the Evangelical Church in Württemberg . From 1995 he became known regionally for his dialect sermons in Gärtringen and then in Simmozheim, and nationally for his annual Swabian harvest festival services at the Cannstatter Volksfest .
His style of speaking moves along the middle line of Swabian, which can also be understood by non-Swabian native speakers . In the dialect books he wrote - mostly Swabian sermons - he only uses the High German alphabet, without any special characters. On the one hand, this makes his books very easy to read. On the other hand, he sticks to a spelling influenced by High German, where a Swabian phonetic would be quite possible (e.g. with the preposition "in", which he spells like this, even if it is clearly pronounced Swabian "en").
He is married and has two children.
Publications
- The Swabian amen. Gärtringer dialect sermons. Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-89511-041-8 .
- The domed sky. Texts in Swabian dialect. Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-89511-051-5 .
- The Christmas story in Swabian, Nidderau 1999, ISBN 3-933575-18-4 .
- Talking Swabian about God. The Gärtringer dialect service. Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-89511-069-8 .
- Bernd Jörg Diebner , Heinrich Kröger, Manfred Mergel (Hrsg.): Dialect in the church. Limits and possibilities. Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12322-0 .
- Matter of the heart. Sermons at the Cannstatter Volksfest. Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-643-12884-3 .
- The charm of slowness. With the stagecoach through Upper Swabia. Silberburg-Verlag , Tübingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-8425-1467-6 .
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Web links
- Literature by and about Manfred Mergel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dialect work of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- Official website of Manfred Mergel
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mergel, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swabian dialect preacher and dialect author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goeppingen |