Muettersproch Society

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The Muettersproch Society ( MSG ) is a language association for the maintenance and preservation of the Alemannic dialect .

organization

Since 2006 the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft has had a full-time managing director in Friedel Scheer-Nahor.

Members

The association, which was founded in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1965 , has 2,700 members from the Alemannic-speaking area, Alsace , Switzerland , Vorarlberg , but above all from southern Baden . Members are also "scattered" Alemanni in Europe and overseas. In addition to the "normal" members, most of the authors and songwriters who write Alemannic are there.

The number of members developed as follows:

  • in 1972: 420 members
  • in 1975: 350 members
  • in 1976: over 750 members
  • in 1977: 1,000 members
  • in 1978: 1500 members
  • in 1979: 2000 members
  • in 1993: over 3000 members
  • in 2000: 3700 members
  • in 2017: 2700 members
  • in 2018: 2443 members
  • in 2019: 2375 members

Regional groups

The office has been located in Freiburg im Breisgau since November 2010 and is divided into 16 regional groups and one Alemanne i de Welt group. The groups are based on the Rhine from Geroldsecker Land in the north to the triangle in the south and to the Seealemannen in the east. Further groups are located in the Black Forest from the northernmost group Offeburg to the southeastern group A Brig and Breg . The regional groups maintain contact with the Alemannic dialect groups in Alsace, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg through excursions and invitations from dialect poets or singers.

General meeting

The general meeting takes place at a different location every year. The official part includes the statement of accounts and the discharge, if necessary there are also new elections of the board of directors, then the outlook and motions. A cultural program is offered in the entertaining part.

president

  • Karl Asal, Freiburg: 1965–1967. Foundation of the association with 116 founding members.
  • Walter Füsslin, Freiburg: 1967–1972
  • Klaus Poppen, Freiburg (1972–2002). The association received a strong increase in membership during its time.
  • Walter Möll, Singen (2002–2007)
  • Franz-Josef Winterhalter, the mayor of Oberried since 2007

activities

The society publishes anthologies , has (1982) collected tens of thousands of signatures for more dialect on radio and television, produced a popular sticker ("Bi uns cha mer au alemannisch schwätze"), organizes various dialect competitions, holds seminars and gives out at irregular intervals Follow the Alemannic antenna award to people from radio and television who advocate the Alemannic dialect.

Poet and musician

Around 100 poets of the Alemannic dialect are members. Musicians who sing in Alemannic are also in the Muettersproch Society. The Muettersproch Society and the Badische Heimat Landesverein have published an Alemannic dictionary and an Alemannic songbook.

Club magazine

Every six months the association publishes the magazine “Alemannisch dunkt üs guet” (We think Alemannisch is good) with around 3000 copies as information and a platform for its members. More than a hundred issues have appeared since 1967. The largest categories are: Us de Gruppe (from the groups) and Des un sell (miscellaneous). In addition, new members, excursion destinations and books / CDs are presented and congratulations and obituaries are published. The content of the years from 2004 / 1-2 of the magazine "Alemannisch dunkt üs guet" is digitally stored and readable.

Website and new media

Information about the next regional group, the old Alemannisch dunkt üs guet club books and events relating to Alemannic are published on the website. Alemannic poems by over a hundred different authors are stored in the poem archive. On the page density and make music, the biographies and publications, prices and text samples of poets and music groups are listed. Alemannic cultural workers can publish their new books, CDs and the like on the website.

An archive with portraits of Alemannic poets is being set up on YouTube. A Facebook page is operated.

Requests

Inquiries about Alemannic and the meaning of Alemannic words are made from culture, science and society. These are clarified in dialogue with the management in Freiburg.

Publication of Alemannic literature

To promote the Alemannic language, the Alemannic dictionary, the Alemannic songbook and the Alemannic pocket songbook were published.

The library

The library comprises around 900 Alemannic books with a focus on the Baden region . But there are also books from the Alemannic-speaking areas of Switzerland, Alsace and Vorarlberg. A large part of the fund are books that were brought in for review by Alemannic authors.

Community project dialect in school

The dialects of Franconian, Swabian and Alemannic are to be imparted to the students in Baden-Württemberg through the project Dialect in Schools . School classes and working groups can invite writers, cabaret artists and musicians to a double lesson in dialect. The main themes of the artists are described in the brochure "Dialect in School". The different colors of the dialect and the colloquial language are experienced as a cultural enrichment of High German. Around 50 dialect speakers are involved every year. The organizational processing takes place via the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft e. V., co-organizer is the association "schwäbische mund.art" e. V. in Herrenberg.

Johann-Peter-Hebel-Medal

Since 1991 the regional group Hegau , with 600 members the strongest regional group of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft, has been awarding the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Medal every year to personalities who have made a special contribution to the Alemannic dialect .

Further development

In addition to the work of the regional groups on site, working groups are formed to further develop topics such as poets, dialect theater and new media. Events are also organized for changing locations in the Alemannic language area.

Alemannic offices / language societies in other countries

  • Office pour la Langue et la Culture d'Alsace
  • Alsace friends Basel

literature

  • Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, Heft I / II 2002 (on the history of the association).
  • Muettersproch Society (Ed.): Welewäg selleweg. An anthology with texts by 33 contemporary dialect authors from Baden. Gutach 1996.
  • Muettersproch Society (Ed.): Kumm sing along! Alemannisches Liederbüechli. (only texts, without notes). 2016.

Web links

Commons : Muettersproch-Gsellschaft  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Motivation for the use of the Alemannic dialect
  2. ↑ Mother Proch Society: Who me sin. What wave to me. Why me s wave. How I do it. Gutenbergdruckerei Benedikt Oberkirch, Freiburg 2009, p. 10.
  3. ↑ Friedel Scheer-Nahor: 50 Johr Muettersproch Society. In: “Alemannisch dunkt üs guet”, issue 2/2014 , pp. 11-20.
  4. ↑ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: The future of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft - Where is it close with iis ?. In: “Alemannisch dunkt üs guet”, 1/2017, pp. 36–38.
  5. ↑ Friedel Scheer-Nahor: 50 Johr member magazine "Alemannisch dunkt üs guet". In: “Alemannisch dunkt üs guet”, 2/2017, pp. 2–17.
  6. ^ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: What is going on in de Muettersproch-Gsellschaft s Johr iber. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2020, p. 29.
  7. ^ Office of the Muettersproch Society in Freiburg im Breisgau
  8. ^ The regional groups of the Muettersproch Society
  9. ^ Stefan Pflaum: Muettersproch Society in contact with Alsace and Switzerland. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, issue 2/2014, pp. 24-25.
  10. ↑ Source: Iiladig zue de General Assembly 2014 vu de Muettersproch-Gsellschaft. On Saturday, April 5, 2014, Nommidags at two in the canteen vu de HTWG.
  11. ↑ Friedel Scheer-Nahor: 50 Johr Muettersproch Society. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, issue 2/2014, pp. 11-20.
  12. ^ Rudolf Post and Friedel Scheer-Nahor: Alemannic dictionary for Baden. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe, 2nd edition 2010. ISBN 978-3-7650-8534-5 .
  13. ↑ Uli Führe and Stefan Pflaum: Woni sing un stand. A cross-border songbook. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe, edition 2012. ISBN 978-3-7650-8620-5 .
  14. ↑ Mother Proch Society: Who me sin. What wave to me. Why me s wave. How I do it. Gutenbergdruckerei Benedikt Oberkirch, Freiburg 2009, p. 21
  15. ↑ Friedel Scheer-Nahor: 50 Johr member magazine "Alemannisch dunkt üs guet". In: “Alemannisch dunkt üs guet”, 2/2017, pp. 2–17.
  16. ↑ Our booklet: Archive.
  17. ^ Official website of the Muettersproch Society
  18. ↑ YouTube poet archive of the Muettersproch Society
  19. ↑ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: The future of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft - Where is it close with iis ?. In Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2017, pp. 36–38.
  20. ^ Official page of the Muettersproch Society on facebook
  21. ↑ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: The future of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft - Where is it close with iis ?. In Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2017, pp. 36–38.
  22. ↑ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: The future of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft - Where is it close with iis ?. In Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2017, pp. 36–38.
  23. ↑ Mother Proch Society: Who me sin. What wave to me. Why me s wave. How I do it. Gutenbergdruckerei Benedikt Oberkirch, Freiburg 2009, p. 21
  24. ↑ Website of the working group dialect in schools
  25. ↑ website schwäbische mund.art eV
  26. ^ Regional group Hegau of the Muettersproch Society
  27. ↑ Franz-Josef Winterhalter: The future of the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft - Where is it close with iis ?. In Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2017, pp. 36–38.
  28. ↑ Uschi Isele: D Muettersproch must react. In Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, 1/2017, pp. 38–39.
  29. ↑ (fr) Official website of the OLCA
  30. ↑ Official website of the association "Elsass-Freunde Basel" (de)

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