Quiddje
Quiddje (sometimes also Quittje or Quietje "Stranger, High German Speakers " ) is the term used in the Hamburg area, half jokingly, half mockingly, for new and new citizens. This extended the title to people who spoke a foreign-sounding German dialect for Hamburgers and, above all, no Low German or Missingsch . Often, however, the term is also shortened to the meaning of newcomers , even if the people concerned come from close by, such as Max Brauer from Ottensen , who was not yet part of Hamburg at the time of his birth, or in the autobiography Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger! My childhood in Germany from Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, a woman who moved to Hamburg from Bad Bramstedt . The term Quiddje is also known in seafaring , where the word is primarily used to describe a so-called landlubber or someone who is a layman in shipping.
According to the Hamburg Lexicon , the origin of the term is unknown. The version according to which the word comes from the time when foreigners had to pay a fee at the city gate when entering a city and received a receipt is unconfirmed. A quiddje would therefore be someone who carries such a receipt around town with him. The term is judgmental, if not offensive. For example, it was said of the mayor of Hamburg, Herbert Weichmann , who was born in Upper Silesia and who in June 1968 triggered an involuntary shower with splashing water during the symbolic ramming for the construction of the New Elbe Tunnel , that the "Quiddje from Silesia has finally been baptized with Elbe water".
In contrast to the Quiddje are the Hamburgers , who in the Hanseatic city again differentiate between native , born and born . A native of Hamburg is anyone who was born in Hamburg. A distinction must be made between the born Hamburgers , who, according to the Abendblatt, are Hamburgers out of conviction. A born person, on the other hand, belongs to one of the long-established and renowned Hamburg families. Corresponding terms elsewhere in Mainz include the distinctions between Mainzer , Määnzer and Meenzer , Kasseler , Kasselaner and Kasseläner and the Rhenish Imi , which is abbreviated from immigrant (or jokingly imitated ).
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- ^ Daniel Tilgner: Quiddje. In: Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 3rd, updated edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0179-1 , p. 556.
- ^ Daniel Tilgner: Quiddje. In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 3rd, updated edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-8319-0179-1 , p. 556.
- ↑ Born - Born and Born . Hamburger Abendblatt dated June 25, 2002 , accessed on March 16, 2013