Tag: Kratzer’s vocabulary
What the dialect words Drack and Schaber mean – Bavaria
Drack “The dragon no longer spits,” read the SZ recently. It was about the volcano on the island of La Palma that harassed the people there for three months. More…
The peculiarities of Karl Lauterbach – Bavaria
A television evening without the newly elected Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach is no longer imaginable. If you use the Bavarian basic vocabulary, then it meets all the criteria to…
When you’re sick, you feel like a pack of artificial honey – Bavaria
Packerl artificial honey In a podcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk (“read Heimat”), Alexander Metz describes what he experienced in Cham during his post-war childhood. It takes the listener back to a…
Putin, Baerbock and the world of Zeiserl – Bavaria
Zeiserl The Green politician Annalena Baerbock was recently suspected of like copying from others, be it in a book or in Twitter posts. She came under suspicion that her personality…
Kratzer’s vocabulary – the high house, a hoard of hammers? – Bavaria
In view of the corona crisis, many top politicians seem disoriented. The critics in the people complain about the hammers. In the past, hammers were honorable craftsmen who had little…
Kratzer’s vocabulary – How Therese Giehse mocked Hitler – Bavaria
After the actress called the dictator a crazy owl in February 1933 in the Münchner Kammerspiele, she was immediately denounced. She fled to Switzerland just in time. Crazy Eagle Owl…
Kratzer’s vocabulary – When the youth still had to go to the Barras – Bavaria
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the military only plays a subordinate, neglected role. Therefore, relevant terms also disappear. The word barras, for example, from which conscripts struggled to escape…
Kratzers Vocabulary – Buchheim’s Schimpfkunst – Bavaria
The controversial author and collector sometimes referred to his opponents as gully rats. In Bavaria, the Bochratz counterpart is more used. Whoever honors others with this name, however, has to…
Kratzer’s vocabulary – The Massl, the Massl and the Bierdimpfl – Bavaria
Why Horst Seehofer, as Prime Minister, was well advised that he once brought a man into his cabinet who already had happiness in his name Mass Marcel Huber (CSU), former…
Kratzer’s vocabulary – the soft sofa of the Kabul experts – Bavaria
The more the need in Afghanistan has intensified in recent weeks, the faster the number of “experts” in Germany who knew everything better on Twitter grew. The great age of…