Bollard whip
The Pollerpeitsch was a popular Danube Swabian weekly newspaper written and published by "Tanielpheder" and is today one of the most extensive examples of "Schwowischen", the Banat dialect .
Surname
In the Banat, “bollard whip” was the name given to the loud cracking whip (etymologically derived from “bollern”) of the village cowherd, who called on the farmers to drive their cows onto the street in the morning or to pick them up in the evening. In a figurative sense, the name of the newspaper is intended to focus the attention of the predominantly rural readership on the articles in the newspaper. A linguistic connection with the Poller Peitsche mentioned in the chronicle of the town of Polle in the district of Holzminden in Lower Saxony remains unlikely, since immigration to the Banat from this area is not documented.
author
Peter Winter, who was born on February 5, 1898 in the community of Easter and died on December 26, 1985 in Seelbach in the Black Forest, is behind the pseudonym "Tanielpheder" . The author chose the pseudonym based on the family tradition of calling the eldest son "Daniel", in Banat dialect "Taniel". In combination with their own first name, the pseudonym "Tanielpheder" was created. Since the author traveled all over the Banat and was mostly present at the main village event, the "Kerwei" , most of his readers knew him personally - even if only under his pseudonym - and provided him with the information on the mostly funny anecdotes which was then written on the sheet. Parallel to the “Pollerpeitsch”, Winter wrote and published the “Pollerpeitsch Kuhlener”, a peasant calendar adapted to the course of the year, and in 1928 a collection of anecdotes under the title “History of the korzi Ele un vun the long week”, which has become a banat phrase. In the barely twenty years of his activity - in 1945 Winter was banned from writing by the communist government - this author left behind one of the most extensive “Schwowischen” text works, which through its detailed description of everyday life and customs is an important cultural and historical testimony to Danube Swabian culture has become.
newspaper
The first, loan-financed edition of “Die Pollerpeitsch” appeared in 1928. Winter went bankrupt in the course of the global economic crisis in 1929 and the paper was discontinued. The newspaper appeared again regularly from January 1935, the last edition was printed in early August 1945 and the newspaper was then banned. The newspaper had a circulation of around 10,000 copies and was distributed throughout the Banat, Hungary and the USA, where it became an important cultural link between the Banat emigrants and their old homeland. In addition to the glossing of events from Banat villages, peasant rules, jokes and a sequel (e.g. “Who will be a doctor?”) Dominated the content of the “poller whip”. During the war there were also greetings to the front ("Sie losse grieße ...") and political comments in the paper. Winter protested against the censorship of his articles by leaving the designated areas in the newspaper unprinted. The advertisements published in the “Pollerpeitsch” are also of cultural and historical interest, as they document the Banat's trade relations with Germany, Switzerland and America. The Banat journalist Hans Matthias Just published a selection of “Pollerpeitsch” articles in 1996 under the title “Die Pollerpeitsch knallt wiedrum” (sic!). A second edition of this work appeared in 1997.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, "German Dictionary", Vol. 2, Sp. 232f., Reprint Munich, dtv, 1984.
- ↑ Priggl, Johann "Chronicle of the community of Polle, Oberweser", in it: "All around the gallows and malicious stake", p. 4.
- ↑ Just, Hans Matthias, "The whip bangs again", Mirton Verlag, Temeschburg, 1997.
literature
- Just, Hans Matthias: “The bollard whip cracks again”, Mirton Verlag, Temeschburg, 1997.