Among contemporary Franconians, Günter Dippold, the district home caretaker in Upper Franconia, can be regarded as an exception, as someone who displays a self-confidence based on history and culture without false modesty. For every thousand inhabitants, Dippold once said North Bavarian Courierthere would be “more monuments” in northern Bavaria than in the south – so the bottom line is that Franconia is culturally richer, so to speak.
Although (as part of that self-confidence) Dippold’s speeches, which are held in the most beautiful Franconian, like to poke fun at his own tribe. Apparently, Franconia is somehow not sexy, he then explains – and its inhabitants “knotty” and equipped with “anxious reserve and cute shyness”.
Not sexy? A few years ago, the playboy an order of the most erotic dialects. The winner was Bavarian, while the idiom in the north of the Free State did not end up very far at least. A national newspaper based in southern Germany even reported in the headline of its online edition at the time: “Lothar Matthäus’ Franconian dialect again ended up in last place.” It was clear from the text that Frisian, Baden and Palatinate ended up after Franconian. But fourth from last isn’t super sexy either.
From all of this – gnarly, reserved, linguistically not extremely erotic – marketing people would probably deduce that it would be better to keep your hands off short dialect films in Franconian transported via the spotlessly clean ego platform Instagram. Franconian dialect and instagrammable, not a few should consider that to be as compatible as Markus Söder and humility.
And so one can deceive oneself. The twenty-something Anna Neubauer has been posting short films in the network of flawless (“annather_story“), speaks the broadest dialect and offers a kind of guide for fruitful Franconian parlando. “In Franconia we don’t say: You don’t need to hurry,” grins the Fürtherin into the camera, “in Franconia we say: Dou de nehr ned derhudzn”. Or: “In Franconia we don’t say: Is that high enough for it? In Franconia they say: Haud des vo da Häich hie?”
Pipe burst, you might think. In fact, Neubauer can hardly keep up with the production, hundreds of thousands are interested in their Insta-Frankenfilmchen. What is sexy, you learn from it, is always in the eye of the beholder – and in the ear of the listener.