Tag: dialect
Bavaria: The dialect is scorned at school – wrongly – Bavaria
In the past, if you ordered a cold cut from the butcher, the saleswoman would give you “a mess for a fiver.” When the new school year began on Tuesday,…
Munich: writer Carl-Ludwig Reichert has died – Munich
In 1982, the loudspeaker of the orange record player with the beautiful name Mr. Hit rumbled: “Pfiat di Mama, pfiat di Papa, let me know, because it works for me…
The Bavarian dialect: between cultural heritage and disgrace – Munich
The language of academics? Can also be Bavarian, Franconian and Swabian. And anyone who speaks “according to the Scriptures” is by no means necessarily a “bastard”. Dialects are a fascinating…
scratch vocabulary: Always des Gschies with Elli – Bavaria
Gschies Here a war is raging, there the forests are burning, the world is once again out of control. The professional football industry alone remains largely unaffected by suffering and…
scratch vocabulary: Always des Gschies with Elli – Bavaria
Gschies Here a war is raging, there the forests are burning, the world is once again out of control. The professional football industry alone remains largely unaffected by suffering and…
Kulturkampf about the Platt at Hamburg’s Ohnsorg Theater – culture
Who exactly “the people” are today is of such fundamental importance for hardly any other cultural institution as it is for the Volkstheater. In the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater, the most…
Kratz’s vocabulary: Gfeide children and watery soups
In addition to its many timbres, the Bavarian dialect has another special feature: some attributes experience a shift in meaning, depending on whether they are given to a young or…
Happy children and watery soups – Bavaria
A gfeids Mädl An acquaintance recently said that he gets the greatest joy when he watches his granddaughter because she is “such a daring girl”. Gfeid – that’s what they…
Culture and cuisine: The Upper Palatinate, finely seasoned
The photographer couple Alexander and Antonia Feig looked into the cooking pots of the region. The result is an opulent illustrated book that not only contains many special dishes, but…
Bavarian language root for Gerhard Polt: Bavarian is an ocean – Bavaria
When Gerhard Polt accepted the Bavarian language root on Saturday as the award winner, he said that shortly beforehand he had heard a speaker on the car radio announcing in…