Plautdietsch FRIND

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Plautdietsch FRIND

description plautdietsche magazine
Headquarters Detmold
First edition 2001
Frequency of publication half-yearly
Sold edition 1,000 copies
Editor-in-chief Horst Martens
editor Plautdietsch Friends e. V.
ISSN (print) 1612-7250

The Plautdietsch FRIND is a magazine in plaut Dietscher language and was founded 2,001th It was initially published quarterly with a print run of 1,000, since 2007 once a year, and two editions are planned for 2012. The Russian mennonites around the world use the magazine both as an instrument for maintaining and documenting the Plautdietsch language and as an international and church-independent information forum. The Plautdietsche word "Frind" (voiced d) is the plural of "Frint" and means "friends".

Editor and editor

The magazine is run by the Plautdietsch-Freunde e. V. (Detmold, formerly Oerlinghausen) published. The initiators Peter Wiens (editor-in-chief) and Peter Penner (graphics / layout) were also co-founders of the publishing association. In 2007, Heinrich Siemens (Bonn), the new chairman of the publishing association, took over the acting editor-in-chief on a provisional basis; Horst Martens has been the editor-in-chief since 2011. Wiens and Siemens also represent the Plautdietsch speakers in Germany in the Federal Council for Low German (Bremen).

Content and topics

Current topics are dealt with on 40 colored pages and Plautdietsche authors are presented with short stories, poems and other texts. It reports on cultural events, the readers are informed about planned and implemented activities of Plautdietschen associations and initiatives. The magazine is also increasingly used for commercial advertisements in Plautdietsch.

While the Russian mennonites can look back on a large number of their own magazines and newspapers in their eventful cultural and migration history, there was never a periodical in their actual Plautdietsch language until the publication of Plautdietsch FRIND . Another new feature of the Plautdietsch FRIND magazine is that its content and topic are aimed equally at religious or believing and atheistic or non-church readers. (Of the approximately 200,000 Plautdietsch speakers in Germany, it is estimated that half of them are associated with one of the Russian-Mennonite church congregations. In Canada or the USA it looks similar. In the issues that have appeared so far, there have always been topics that are too “secular” for some "And topics that others found too" pious ". The publisher expressly requests discussion and confrontation with those who think differently.)

Subscribers and readers

The subscribers and readers of Plautdietsch FRIND magazine include people in Germany, Russia, Canada, USA, Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay and other countries. Above all , it is the Russian mennonites who live scattered around the world , as it is not just about conveying information, but also about maintaining and documenting their original mother tongue . According to reader reports, the individual issues are passed on to relatives, friends and acquaintances after they have been read by the subscriber, so that it can be assumed that a single issue is usually read by a relatively large number of people.

language

All articles in the magazine were or will be written in Plautdietsch. Since there has not yet been an official standardization of the spelling in the history of this language , with the spread of the Plautdietsch FRIND, a uniform orthography will gradually be developed and established as far as possible. Plautdietsch FRIND is the first and so far only magazine in the Plautdietsch language worldwide, which gives it relevance for cultural history in the international community of Russian mennonites.

As a measure to maintain and document a minority language in Europe, the existence and further development of the journal Plautdietsch FRIND is entirely in line with EU language policy (see European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages ).

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