René Schickele Society
The René Schickele Society (French: Culture et Bilinguisme d'Alsace et de Moselle ) is an association in Alsace and Eastern Lorraine with its headquarters in Strasbourg , which is committed to the preservation of dialect and the maintenance of standard German. The company is named after the Alsatian writer René Schickele .
Foundation of the company
In the 1960s, some Alsatians and East Lorraine people worried about the Alemannic and Franconian dialect in their region, as this was in decline. So in 1966 a group met at the University of Strasbourg to talk about it. As a result, in 1968 15 people founded the association, which was originally called "Cercle René Schickele Circle", with the aim of stopping the decline of the language.
Society's goals
With the initiative Bilingual: Our Future , the association succeeded in reintroducing German lessons at primary schools in the region. It was completely abolished in 1945. The association wanted the reintroduction to be very important, as it advocates that both dialect and standard language be rehabilitated.
The work of society
The company has several projects to promote bilingualism, including a .:
- quarterly edition of the newspaper "Land und Sproch"
- Advertisements in newspapers
- a hot air balloon with inscription flying over the country
- Youth seminars, poetry readings, study trips
- Brochures on choosing High German for secondary schools
- Studies on the state of the language
- Dialect courses
organization
The current chairman is Jean-Marie Woehrling.
Web links
- René Schickele Society (fr, partly German)
literature
- It was 40 years ago: The René Schickele Society. Du Cerkle René Schickele-Kreis à Culture et Bilinguisme d'Alsace et de Moselle. In: Land un Sproch, No. 167, 2008
- René Schickele-Gesellschaft: Annual report 2005–2006 (presented by the board at the annual general meeting in October 2006)