Association for language maintenance

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The Association for Language Maintenance (VfS) is an "association of representatives of various [language] associations with the aim of enabling jointly developed publications". He is best known as the editor of the magazine Deutsche Sprachwelt (DSW).

Club and club history

Heinrich Heeger (1917–1985), grammar school teacher for German and geography and chairman of the Hamburg branch of the Society for German Language (GfdS), founded the Association for Language Maintenance (VfS) in 1963. The trigger for founding the association was Heeger's extremely critical attitude towards foreign words , which in the 1960s became increasingly incompatible with the principles of the GfdS and ultimately led to his departure from society. The majority of the members of the Hamburg branch of the GfdS followed Heeger in the VfS, who, in contrast to the GfdS, "continued the tradition of the General German Language Association , had set itself the decisive fight against foreign words as a main task". His motto was therefore that of the General German Language Association: “No foreign word for what can be expressed well in German.” Between 1963 and 1970, the VfS sold around 70,000 stickers with this slogan.

The organ of the VfS was Der Sprachpfleger , of which the association published a total of 86 issues in a print run of four to ten thousand copies in Gothic script over the course of 23 years. The language tutor was sent to association members, friends, sponsors, authorities and members of the Bundestag.

The VfS, which was briefly renamed its native language in 1970 , but called itself the Hamburger Verein für Sprachpflege since the winter of 1971 and of which the Rhine-Main and Southeast branches also existed, Heeger sat until the general meeting on November 9, 1985, which took place in Erlangen , in front. Heinrich Heeger resigned his chairmanship for health reasons and was unanimously elected honorary chairman. He passed away a short time later.

After Heeger's death, club life gradually fell asleep. The new chairman in 1985 was the then 69-year-old Karl Teubner, who lived in Brussels , where he had worked as a translator and reviewer for the Commission of the European Economic Community until his retirement . Under the next chairman, Mathias Weifert, there were breaks in the association at the end of the 1980s, whereupon numerous members became involved in the Federation for German Writing and Language (BfdS) instead . The VfS was now about to be dissolved. In 1991 the Rhein-Main branch took over the management of the association under Christoph Schallert and at the end of 1993 the pastor Gabriele Staffel took over as chairman. The club's headquarters were moved to Mainz . In 1995 the association finally gave up its legal capacity .

In 1999 the VfS was revitalized and held the rights to the association organ Der Sprachpfleger . A new board was elected on November 6th of the same year. First chairman was Stefan Micko, who also chaired the Viennese association mother tongue . Manfred Riebe, who also chaired the Association for German Spelling and Language Maintenance (VRS) in Schwaig near Nuremberg , became the second chairman . Assessor was u. a. Thomas Paulwitz from Erlangen , who has been editor of the Deutsche Sprachwelt since May 2000.

In 2000 the VfS was re-established with a new board. Hans-Manfred Niedetzky took over the chairmanship in 2001, at the same time regional representative of the German Language Association (VDS). He was followed in May 2005 by Thomas Paulwitz as the club's chairman.

In the debate about the inclusion of the German language in the Basic Law , the association runs the initiative "German into the Basic Law", in which it advocates the establishment of the language in the Basic Law by adding a corresponding paragraph (3) to Article 22 of the Basic Law .

literature

  • Gudrun Fahrenkrog Clay: Recent attempts at language maintenance in German-speaking countries. With a historical review . Inaugural dissertation. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1981.
  • Ingrid Selma Johanna Hillen: Investigations on the continuity and change of language cultivation in the German Reich, in the Federal Republic and in the GDR: (1885 to the present) . Inaugural dissertation. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1982.
  • Falco Pfalzgraf: The association for language maintenance. In: Falco Pfalzgraf: Neopurism in Germany after the turn . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2006, pp. 100–129.
  • Silke Wiechers: "We are the language people" - current efforts of language associations and initiatives. Mother tongue 111 (2), 2001, pp. 147-162.
  • Silke Wiechers: "Sprachpfleger" and "Verein für Sprachpflege": The development of the branches Hanover and Hamburg. In: Silke Wiechers: The Society for German Language. Prehistory, history and work of a German language association . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2004, pp. 239–248.
  • Karoline Wirth: Association for language maintenance / German language world. In: The German Language Association. Background, development, work and organization of a German language association . Bamberg: Bamberg University Press, Bamberg 2010, pp. 121-125.

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  1. ↑ Silke Wiechers: "We are the language people" - current efforts of language associations and initiatives ( Memento of January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Silke Wiechers: "Sprachpfleger" and "Verein für Sprachpflege": The development of the branches Hanover and Hamburg . In: Silke Wiechers: The Society for German Language. Prehistory, history and work of a German language association . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2004, p. 230 f.
  3. ↑ Ingrid Selma Johanna Hillen: Investigations on the continuity and change in language maintenance in the German Reich, in the Federal Republic and in the GDR: (1885 to the present) . Inaugural dissertation. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 1982, p. 97.
  4. ↑ Language maintenance: indifferent, unfortunately . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1970, pp. 114-117 ( online - November 9, 1970 ).
  5. ^ Karoline Wirth: Association for language maintenance / German language world. In: The German Language Association. Background, development, work and organization of a German language association . Bamberg University Press, Bamberg 2010, p. 122.
  6. ↑ Silke Wiechers: "Sprachpfleger" and "Verein für Sprachpflege": The development of the branches Hanover and Hamburg. In: Silke Wiechers: The Society for German Language. Prehistory, history and work of a German language association . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2004, p. 248.
  7. ^ Association for Language Care Hamburg ( Memento from January 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  8. ↑ Letter of invitation and report on the annual general meeting d. J. 2000 ( Memento of January 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ "German into the Basic Law"