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The Palatinate dialect poet contest was brought into being in 1953 primarily thanks to the efforts of the Bockenheimer Amtsrat Hans Niederberger and is organized on a Saturday in October by the registered association Förderkreis Mundart Bockenheim together with the local community. In 1978 the Bockenheimer Dialect Days were added as a supplementary event , which take place annually on an April or May weekend from Friday to Sunday. For example, B. Dialectologists in front of an audience about dialect topics and discuss them - traditionally in dialect - on the podium . This part of the program is called "Pälzer Dischbediere" - Palatinate disputes. Other components of the festive season are z. B. plays or services in Palatinate dialect.
Grand Prize
Tender
The competition is open to authors who can write and speak Palatinate dialect . You don't have to come from the Palatinate; Usually participants from other German regions or from overseas also apply. This includes u. a. the US state of Pennsylvania , where a Palatine emigrant dialect, the Pennsylvania Dutch , has survived.
The only advertised section is poetry . Since 2009, competition entries - a maximum of two per applicant - can also be submitted online.
Final round and result
Traditionally, the final round with the poetry lectures takes place in the marquee, which is set up on the central fairground next to the Emichsburg community center and the House of the German Wine Route . The jury appointed by the members' meeting of the sponsoring group awards the ten best poems. The subject and content, the purity of the dialect and the art of presentation influence the evaluation. The first three ranks will be announced and will be awarded cash prizes; the participants who finish fourth to tenth do not find out their rank and each receive the same recognition award . The competition results will be presented on the sponsorship group's website for one year.
The Dr. Wilhelm Dautermann Prize commemorates a long-standing jury member and honors new publications in dialectic.
The Fer Neie Prize (Prize for Newcomers) can be awarded to a poet who is taking part in the competition for the first time.
The Jakob Böshenz Prize, which was awarded from 1980 to 1994 for the complete literary works, disappeared from the range of Bockenheim dialect awards in 1995. In 1994, the winner Michael Bauer had given back the 1991 award after he learned of Böshenz's sympathy for those in power during the National Socialist era .
The Emichsburg Prize has been awarded on the occasion of the Bockenheimer Dialect Days since 1981. It is named after the medieval castle in the Kleinbockenheim district and pays tribute to special contributions to dialect, dialect literature and regional culture.
Since 2011 the pennsylvaniadeutsche newspaper Hiwwe wie Driwwe in cooperation with the Kutztown University (Pennsylvania) and the Förderkreis Mundarttage Bockenheim e. V. annually in October as part of the Palatinate Dialect Poet Contest, a prize for the best of the Pennsylvania German texts that were previously presented in July during the Kutztown Folk Festival at the Pennsylvania German Dialect Writers Presentation or published in the newspaper in the course of the previous twelve months.
The most successful participant overall is Gerd Runck (1929–2012), who received 26 prizes in Bockenheim; He won the competition five times, once with a 2nd place. Albert Bleyer won the competition five times, was also placed five times and received a special prize once. Four poets succeeded in winning the competition several times in the years from 1990: Gerd Runck (1990 and 2011), Alexander Schroth (1995 and 2000), Anneliese Thürwächter (1999 and 2006), Manfred Dechert (2001, 2007, 2009 and 2014 ) and Wilfried Berger (2005 and 2013).
The composition of the jury has shown a very high degree of continuity over the years, individual members of the committee have been active for 25 years or more (as of 2020):
Community of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse, Rudolf Post (Ed.): I like to do it . The Palatine dialect poet contest Bockenheim from the beginning until today. Palatinate Publishing House, Landau / Pfalz 1995.
Local community of Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse and sponsorship group Mundarttage Bockenheim e. V., Rudolf Post (Ed.): Allminanner… . Six decades of Palatine dialect poetry contest in Bockenheim on the Weinstrasse. 2012.
