Sound archive of East Hessian dialects

The Tonarchiv Osthessischer Mundarten (ToM) is a documentation of the East Hessian dialect in the Fulda area . It was launched as part of the “Mir schwatze Platt” competition. The opening event of the competition was on April 29, 2003 in Petersberg , the closing event on March 22, 2004 in Künzell . A total of 400 participants took part in the competition and recorded their dialect on a sound carrier or video and thus preserved it for posterity.

history

ToM was invented by the linguist Stefan Arend and Gerhard Möller, who was then First District Member of the District of Fulda and later Lord Mayor of Fulda. Stefan Arend then worked out a corresponding scientific concept for the city and district of Fulda. After that, ToM should first document how East Hessian presents itself today, but also show linguistic developments in comparison to older documents. After all, ToM is an auditory archive.

Based on the Hesse-wide dialect campaign “Ich sag's hessisch”, which was carried out very successfully in the early 1980s with well over 1,000 participants, ToM took the following route to obtain the linguistic information: ToM placed its trust in a competition called “Mir schwatze Platt "in order to motivate as many participants as possible to" make their language available ".

For cost reasons, it was decided to use an indirect survey method, that is, the participants were not interviewed and recorded by linguists on site, but each participant made his own contribution. However, so that the voice recordings could still be compared with each other, the content had to be specified.

The sentences of the German Language Atlas were used as language and translation specifications so that today's recordings can be compared with the language material from 1880 of the German Language Atlas. This allows statements to be made about the development of the East Hessian dialects, and even scientific research is basically possible. In addition to these linguistically prepared sentences, which therefore seem a bit wooden and are over 120 years old, the participants also wanted to give the participants room for creativity. So it was also possible to submit stories, poems, pieces of music and other things.

The discussed and submitted dialect recordings were collected and digitized centrally in the media center of the district of Fulda. A clear and exemplary mixture of contributions with intermediate moderations was put together from all the audio documents. The mixture of contributions is available to dialect lovers for training and teaching purposes. The whole range of spoken language in the Fulda region is reflected in the mix. This mixture is also suitable for local schools or for public relations or for tourism advertising.

In total, over 400 ToM entries were submitted to the 2003/2004 "Mir schwatze Platt" competition, of which 137 entries contain translations of the so-called 40 Wenker sentences. The population submitted voice samples from a total of 79 districts and districts of the Fulda region.

All information, contributions from ToM and the mixture of contributions from the Internet can be called up worldwide via the homepage and YouTube channel of the Medienzentrum Fulda.

The population is still called upon to make voice recordings (40 Wenker sentences and their own individual dialect contributions) and send them to the media center in Fulda in order to be able to continue building up the archive and to make the dialect available to posterity.

Web links

literature

Stefan Arend : Talking how the beak has grown. Tonarchiv Osthessischer Mundarten (ToM) wants to document dialects of the region comprehensively and nationwide . In: Jahrbuch Landkreis Fulda, 30th year, 2002/2003, pp. 124–138.
Carla Ihle-Becker: The linguistic memory of a region. In: Frankfurter Rundschau No. 305 of December 30, 2004, p. 31.
Stefan Arend: The linguistic memory of a region. Sound archive of East Hessian dialects (ToM) . In: History of the City of Fulda. Edited by the Fulda History Association. Vol. I. Fulda 2009, pp. 678-679.