List of German language clubs

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The list of language associations contains associations , foundations and institutions that protect, maintain or promote the German language and are or were based in the German-speaking area.

Clubs no longer in existence

Linguistic societies of the Baroque period (selection)

Other clubs that no longer exist

Older clubs (founded until 1980)

Promotion and maintenance of the German language

Promotion of the German language and literature

For German writing

For moderate lower case

  • Federation for Simplified Spelling (BVR), founded in 1924

Dialect care

  • Oecher Platt 1907 e. V., for the maintenance, promotion and preservation of the Aachen dialect
  • Association of Swiss German (formerly Bund Schwyzertütsch), founded in 1938
  • Muettersproch-Gsellschaft e. V. , for the Alemannic language area, founded in 1966 in Freiburg im Breisgau
  • Association for the preservation of the Lower Franconian dialect e. V.

Younger clubs (founded from 1980)

Promotion of the German language

Maintaining the German language

  • Association German language e. V. (VDS), founded in 1997, mainly against Anglicisms
  • Interest group mother tongue in Austria, Graz (IGM), founded in 1998, against Anglicisms
  • Language Rescue Club Bautzen / Oberlausitz e. V. (SRK), founded in 1998, against Anglicisms and for language maintenance
  • New Fruit Bringing Society of Köthen / Anhalt e. V. - Association for the maintenance of the German language, founded in 2007

Criticism of the spelling reform

  • Working group for the German language e. V. (AfdS), founded in the mid-1990s to "overturn the spelling reform"
  • Berlin Association for German Spelling and Language Maintenance, founded in the mid-1990s to combat the spelling reform
  • Association for German Spelling and Language Maintenance e. V. (VRS), founded in 1997 to combat the spelling reform
  • Working group Our Language (ARKUS), founded in 1998, against Anglicisms and spelling reform
  • Lively German language e. V. (LDS), founded in 2000, according to its own website "for the immediate withdrawal of the spelling reform!"
  • Association for language maintenance e. V. (VfS), founded in 2000, against spelling reform and Anglicisms, publication: Deutsche Sprachwelt
  • German Language Research Group V. (FDS), founded in 2002, linguistic research, but according to a well-meaning assessment “the FDS, together with the advisory board members and sympathizers in the background, are a notable, strong group” - against the spelling reform
  • (Munich) Council for German Spelling e. V., counter-foundation (2004) to the official advice for German spelling (see below)
  • Sprachkreis Deutsch (SKD), founded in 2004 to combat the spelling reform (indirect successor of the Bubenberg Society Bern; see above)
  • Initiative “Our German Language” (IUDS), founded in 2005, against Anglicisms and spelling reform
  • Action German language e. V. (ADS), founded in 2006 by former VDS members, against Anglicisms and spelling reform
  • Swiss Orthographic Conference , founded in 2006

Dialect care

  • Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch, founded in 1983
  • Bärndütsch Association, founded in 1991
  • Bavarian language and dialects Chiemgau e. V., founded in 2001
  • Friends of the Bavarian Language and Dialects (FBSD), founded in 2003

Language foundations

  • Henning Kaufmann Foundation for the Care of the Purity of the German Language, founded in 1978, awards the German Language Prize
  • German Language Foundation, founded in 2001, corresponding member of the German UNESCO Commission

State sponsored language institutions

Official institution

literature

  • Karin M. Frank-Cyrus, Anja Steinhauer and Annette Trabold / Society for German Language, Institute for German Language (Hrsg.): Promotion of language culture in Germany. Language associations in the German-speaking area. Wiesbaden 1999.
  • Silke Wiechers: "We are the language people." Current efforts of language associations and initiatives. In: Native 111, 2001, pp 147-162.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Association for the German Language
  2. ↑ Öcher Platt
  3. ^ Association of Swiss German , at that time with the groups Bern, Zug and Zurich
  4. ^ FDS forum
  5. ^ German Language Foundation