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“Hanna from Raddusch” Advertises for Persil. Sorbian/Wendish Themes in Advertising up to the Second World War

„Hanna aus Raddusch“ wirbt für Persil. Sorbische/Wendische Motive in der Werbung

Author(s): Maria Mirtschin / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2011

Keywords: advertising; ads; national; costume; Sorbian; business; display; ad;

Since the end of the 19th Century product advertising has used pictorial motifs from the Sorbian world. Sorbian national costume motifs have not only been exploited in advertising by Sorbian businesses, but also by manufacturers of agricultural machinery in Bavaria, by international cigarette companies, by the washing powder company Persil and by others. These motifs even played a prominent role in the political propaganda of National Socialism. The author uses examples to examine how Sorbian motifs were effectively inserted into the images by increasingly separating the presentation of the picture from the linguistic message for the purposes of advertising. As a result they were stripped of their historical context and ethnic content. The attractive, vivid nature of Sorbian national costume was the only element felt to have strong advertising value. Sorbian motifs were of interest for National Socialist propaganda because the images from the everyday life of Sorbian villages were apparently able to convey the ideal of a national community, which corresponded to the National Socialist world-view. That this could happen at the same time as the ban on all Sorbian organisations and the suppression of Sorbian national aspirations was a result of the ambivalent nature of the images in the pictures, which had been removed from their context.

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Some Aspects of the Crisis in the Sorbian National Movement in 1946/47

Niektóre aspekty kryzysu w serbołużyckim ruchu narodowym

Author(s): Piotr Pałys / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2011

Keywords: national movement; 1946; 1947; Domowina; national; committees; slav; committee; politics; All-Slav; congress; Belgrade; Sorbian; Sorbs

The Sorbian national movement after the end of the Second World War consisted of three main organisational centres: the Domowina, the national committees with the National Council at their head and the Slav Committee. These bodies pursued different approaches to the solution of the Sorbian question. The integration of Domowina representatives into important political functions achieved their goal of cooperating with the local German authorities and keeping Lusatia as part of Germany. The other Sorbian bodies, which in part had their headquarters abroad, continued to press for the separation of Lusatia from Germany. However, they were gradually pushed to the political sidelines with this policy. While there was still cooperation between the different Sorbian groups in 1945/46, contacts between the bodies were gradually abandoned. This led to a double strategy, which caused some confusion abroad. In December 1946 two Sorbian delegations took part in the All-Slav Congress in Belgrade. In March 1947 the Sorbian representatives put together two memoranda with different aims for the Allied Foreign Ministers’ Conference. This led the Sorbian post-war movement into a crisis. The Domowina emerged from this strengthened and developed increasingly into the central Sorbian organisation. It cooperated with the German political authorities, above all the SED. The Sorbian National Council by contrast rejected any cooperation with the German parties until its enforced dissolution in 1948.

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New Interpretations of Upper Sorbian Place Names

Neue Deutungen Oberlausitzer Ortsnamen

Author(s): Walter Wenzel / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2008

Keywords: upper; sorbian; place; names; ortsnamen; interpretations

While working on the Oberlausitzer Ortsnamenbuch (Upper Sorbian Book of Place Names), a work of popularscholarship, the author was able to present new explanations for a series of place names compared to earlier interpretations. But in view of the limited space in this work and the nature of the book, which is aimed at a wide readership, it was not possible to give detailed evidence for the reinterpretation of these names and to support this with comparative names from other Slav languages. As a result of progress made in German, international, and in particular Polish, onomastics, as well as in Sorbian anthroponomastics, 50 place names can be explained from a different point of view or their previous interpretations can be explained more precisely. Amongst them are Cannewitz, Cortnitz, Dehsa, Demitz, Denkwitz, Döschko, Gaußig, Kodersdorf, Mulkwitz, Oppach, Putzkau and Ratzen.

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Poles and Polish topics in the journal “Łužica” 1882–1916

Poláci a polská témata v časopisu „Łužica“ v letech 1882–1916

Author(s): Petr Kaleta / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2012

Keywords: Slavic neighbours; Polish; Polish-Sorbian; relations; journal; časopis; Łužica; polsko-lužickosrbské; kontaktý

Following the fusion of the journals Łužičan and Lipa Serbska in 1882, the new Sorbian journal Łužica was founded and became the most important popular journal in Lusatia in the period that followed. From the very beginning, in addition to the main Sorbian topics, the journal was also devoted to the literary, historical and cultural life of the Poles’ Slavic neighbours. The Poles and Polish topics also had their place in the journal Łužica for the entire period under study, 1882–1916. The editors devoted significant attention to well-known personalities from Polish-Sorbian relations, Wilhelm Józef Bogusławski and Alfons Parczewski, but also to Parczewski’s sister Melania, the author who published the most articles in the journal. However, the journal also familiarized the reader with the work of the most significant Polish writers of the 19th century. This consisted, above all, of the work of Henryk Sienkiewicz, which was presented to the Sorbs in translations by Jurij Winger, though samples from the translations of three of Mickiewicz’s sonnets by Jakub Bart-Ćišinski also appeared in the journal. Information on the life and work of other Polish writers, e.g. Kornel Ujejski, Michał Bałucki or Adam Asnyk, was also published. Polish topics in the journal were covered primarily by Michał Hórnik, Mikławš Andricki, Adolf Sommer, Adolf Černý and Arnošt Muka, who familiarized the Sorbs of Lusatia with topics from Polish history. Information regularly provided by Łužica about Polish financial support for Sorbian institutions, publications and students is also of importance.

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Horst Schlossar. Pupil of Otto Dix, painter of Sorbian life, Socialist Realist und army artist

Horst Schlossar. Dix-Meisterschüler, sorbischer Volksmaler, sozialistischer Realist und NVA-Künstler

Author(s): Jonathan Osmond / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2013

Keywords: Socialist; Realist; Dix; Sorbian; Weimar Republic; painting; painter; Schlossar; Horst; Dix; Otto; Dresden; Maler; sozialistischer Realismus; neue Sachlichkeit; painter; socialist realism; new objectivity

The career of the Dresden-born artist, Horst Schlossar/Šlosar (1903–1964), began in the Weimar Republic, continu-ed during the Third Reich and the Soviet occupation and concluded in the German Democratic Republic. These convulsions in Germany’s twentieth-century history are reflected in his work. This article sets out for the first time to integrate and evaluate the hitherto disparate facets of Schlossar’s life and work. Individual paintings and groups of works are analysed in respect of their connections to New Objectivity, Socialist Realism, reception of the German visual heritage, official commissioning of artworks, and the cultural life of the Sorbian population in the south-east of the GDR. A partial reconstitution has been achieved of Schlossar’s production before 1945, followed by: his depictions of Dresden after the bombing; the family portraits in the style of his professor, Otto Dix; the establish-ment of socialism; the political posters; the portrayals of Sorbian rural costume; the historical works; the agricultural and industrial development of Lusatia; and Schlossar’s collaboration with the National People’s Army. Particular attention is paid to significant pieces such as the large mural “Reconstruction” (1949) in Schloss Radibor and “Peasant Delegation to the 1st Socialist Artists’ Brigade” (1952/53), Schlossar’s most frequently exhibited and reproduced painting. On the basis of official documentation, press reports, personal correspondence, exhibition catalogues, and the artworks themselves, Schlossar’s political and cultural engagement in the life of the Sorbian population and the GDR is documented. It is contended that his works incorporate references to earlier German images and that the apparently naïve style of his figurative paintings and graphics was a deliberate attempt to connect art with the concerns of the working population.

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Ideology and the Domowina in the GDR

Ideologie und Domowina in der DDR

Author(s): Ludwig Elle / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2010

Keywords: Domowina; GDR; Sorbian organization; ideology; Ideologie; nationale Organisation; DDR; Sorben; SED; Jurij Grós; Kurt Krjeńc;

This article investigates how an ideological orientation, determined by Marxism-Leninism and the notion of the class struggle, got the upper hand in the Domowina, which functioned as a satellite organisation of the SED in the GDR, and how opposing views were denounced and attacked. In addition, the creation of a view of Sorbian history, which accorded with the ideology of the SED, is described. A highly problematic area right up to the political change of direction in 1989 was the relationship of the Domowina to the Churches and to the Sorbian clergy. This was dominated by the notion of separateness, although there were attempts in the 1950s and the 1980s at establishing a closer and more cooperative relationship. A continual ideological strain on the relationship between the Domowina and sections of its Sorbian religious members was its support for the “Jugendweihe” (a secular form of confirmation), in which participants were required to take a vow to the GDR state, to the leading role of the SED and to a socialist (atheist) ideology. Perestroika in the Soviet Union and developments in Poland and Hungary in the 1980s left their mark on the Sorbs and the Domowina. This article sums up the discussions, which ensued reflecting the particular Sorbian point of view of the situation and how the leadership of the Domowina reacted to them.

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Wenceslaus Warichius the Elder and his time. Lutheran priesthood between orthodox erudition and farming

Wenceslaus Warichius der Ältere und seine Zeit. Lutherisches Pfarramt zwischen orthodoxer Gelehrsamkeit und Landwirtschaft

Author(s): Jens Bulisch / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2009

Keywords: wenceslaus warichius; history; sorbian literature; culture; göda

Wenceslaus Warichius achieved a place of honour in the history of Sorbian literature and culture as a result of the publication of the first book in Sorbian in 1595, Luther’s Small Catechism. This present article investigates the life of the Göda pastor and sets it in the general context of the time. Warichius studied in Wittenberg; he became curate in Göda in 1587 and priest of the parish in 1589. As a result he took over one of the largest parishes in Saxony. The parish was divided between the Saxon patrimonial lands and Upper Lusatia and shaped the working conditions of the priest. The author considers, amongst other things, the economic conditions of his work as a priest, spiritual/theological issues, as well as the liturgical structure of services from the bilingual point of view. In this connection the translation of the Catechism is acknowledged as an outstanding intellectual/religious achievement.

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Some remarks on the relationship between aspect and the iterative in Sorbian

Einige Bemerkungen zum Verhältnis von Aspekt und Iterativität im Sorbischen

Author(s): Katja Brankačkec / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2011

Keywords: Sorbian; aspect; iterative; Upper Sorbian; Sorbian; Slavonic studies; grammar; Sorbian; aspect; iterative; Upper Sorbian; Sorbian; Slavonic studies; grammar;

This article summarises the situation of research on aspect in Sorbian with particular reference to Upper Sorbian. For this purpose results achieved from research into Sorbian are set against more recent general Slavonic studies on aspect. Both the description in older Sorbian grammars is dealt with as well all the important contributions on aspect in modern Upper Sor-bian. A comparison of these results with comparative Slavonic examinations of aspect, as well as with statements on the origins of Slavonic aspect highlights the fact that aspect in Sorbian with regard to the iterative behaves differently from Russian, but also from other West Slavonic languages. The specific role of the iterative is often only mentioned in passing in the works on aspect in Sorbian, and therefore is highlighted in this article.

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“Comrades are required to review attitudes which regard language as main problem.” The Sorbian Language as a Political Issue for the Domowina in GDR

„Die Genossen sollen auch Auffassungen überprüfen, die die Sprache als Hauptproblem betrachten.“ Sorb. Sprache als Politikfeld der Domowina in der DDR

Author(s): Ludwig Elle / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2008

Keywords: sorbian language; gdr; domowina; political issue

Problems relating to the maintenance and use of the Sorbian language always played a prominent role in the work of the Domowina. On the one hand the Sorbian language was regarded as an essential element in Sorbian identity, but on the other hand the attempts by the Domowina as an organization to support the language were subordinated to the political and ideological constraints imposed by SED policy. The languages policy of the Domowina described in this piece is divided into three phases. Up to the middle of the 1950s the dominant positions were those which interpreted issues of language as the basic problem of the nationalities policy (“Lusatia will become bilingual”). Up to the end of the 1960s it was more the case that problems relating to the Sorbian language were downplayed. From the 1970s the leadership of the Domowina gave greater attention to the interests of the Sorbian language again in view of the decline in the everyday use of the language in both parts of Lusatia, which was becoming evermore apparent.

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Mužský Hill, on 5 July 1933. The Story of a Demonstration.

Mužský; 5. července 1933. Příběh jedné manifestace (1. díl)

Author(s): Ladislav Futtera / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Demonstration; Machtergreifung; Hitler; Geschichte; Společnost přátel Lužice; Society of Friends of Lusatia; demonstartion; Mužský Hill; 1933; Mnichovo Hradiště; culture freedom

This paper deals with the preparations for, and the course and assessment of the demonstration “For the Cultural Freedom of the Lusatian Sorbs” which was held on Mužský Hill near the town of Mnichovo Hradiště on 5 July 1933, on the festival of the Slav apostles, Cyril and Method. It presents it as a reaction to the persecution of the Lusatian Sorbs after Hitler’s seizure of power (Machtergreifung) in Germany on 30 January 1933. The demonstration is viewed in Czech-Sorbian studies as the biggest gathering in support of the Lusatian Sorbs in the period between the World Wars. The material for this article is taken primarily from the press published in Mladá Boleslav, illustrating the regional nature of the demonstration. Emphasis is also put on the link between this demonstration and the memoranda of the Society of Friends of Lusatia (Společnost přátel Lužice), which were sent to the League of Nations in Geneva. However, the League of Nations rejected these memoranda, and this was perceived in the region of Mladá Boleslav and Mnichovo Hradiště as a failure of the demonstration. This resulted in a reduction in active interest in the Lusatian Sorbs in this region out of sense of disappointment and disillusionment. The friends of the Sorbs, both from Prague and from Mladá Boleslav, afterwards searched for further significance of the demonstration, which fascinated a number of participants. Later interpretations of the demonstration highlighted Czech national and political unity, stressing its democratic basis and the fact that it represented an uncompromising rebuff to the Hitler regime.

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The Municipal, District and State Elections in 1946 in the Kamenz District

Die Gemeinde-, Kreis- und Landtagswahlen 1946 im Kreis Kamenz

Author(s): Michael Richter / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Kamenz; Saxony; election; 1946; SED; wólby; Wahlen; Domowina

While the results of the municipal, district and state elections in the autumn of 1946 in the district of Kamenz were in line with the general picture of election results in Saxony and the Soviet Zone, the proportion of votes cast for the SED in the predominantly Sorbian communities was much lower than average. Conversely, the CDU achieved majorities here. One reason for this was the strictly Catholic background of large parts of the Sorbian population. A second, decisive reason stems from the fact that the SED district executive committee in Kamenz did not support an agreement made between the executive committee of the Domowina and the SED regional executive committee of Lusatia, according to which members of the Domowina were required to support only the SED in the election campaign and to stand as candidates on the SED list, while at the same time resigning from the CDU. In the view of the the SED district executive committee such a one-sided commitment to the SED, demanded by the SED regional executive committee of Lusatia, contravened the guidelines of bloc policy, whose long-term aim was to gain acceptance of the political system of the Soviet Zone in the western zones, thereby carrying out the aims of Soviet interests in Germany. According to these, the CDU and the LDP should be drawn into sharing responsibility for policy in the Soviet Zone, and not be politically isolated. The policy of the SED district committee was however interpreted by the Domowina as representing a view, which was detrimental to the Sorbs, and this was main reason for the SED’s bad election results among the Sorbs of the Kamenz district.

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Jurij and Pawoł Cyž in the Sorbian National Movement

Jurij i Pawoł Cyžowie w serbołużyckim ruchu narodowym

Author(s): Piotr Pałys / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: sorbian national movement; Sorbische Nationalbewegung; serbołużycki; ruch narodowy; Jurij Cyž; Pawoł Cyž; Łužiskoserbski narodny wuběrk; Sorbian National Comittee; Prague; Prag; Praha

The author illustrates important aspects of the Sorbian national movement in the 1930s and 1940s using a range of different sources. He focuses on the two brothers from Säuritz near Kamenz, Jurij und Pawoł Cyž. They both studied law in the 1930s, Jurij in Prague and Leipzig, Pawoł in Königsberg. During this time they were both active in the Sorbian student movement. Beyond that they kept in close contact with the Polish minority, in particular with the Federation of Poles in Germany. The climax of the influence of the two brothers on the Sorbian national movement came immediately after the end of the Second World War. Both were active in the Sorbian National Committee, Jurij as General Secretary in Prague, his brother Pawoł as the representative of the Committee in Poland. In these capacities they supported the idea of a separate Sorbian state or alternatively the merger of Lusatia with Czechoslovakia. Pawoł Cyž actively pursued this matter until March 1947, but nevertheless stayed in Poland until 1949. He was arrested after his return to Lusatia; after his release he fled to West Germany.He lived there until his death in 1977. Jurij worked until his early death in September 1947 as General Secretary of the Sorbian National Committee in Prague. The German authorities in the Soviet Zone of Occupation suspected that both Sorbs were working as agents for the Polish secret service, however they were unable to produce any clear evidence.

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Ministry of foreign Affairs in theUSSR and MilitaryAdministration of the SovietOccupation Zone in Germany considering the Lusatian issue between'45-48

Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych ZSRR oraz Wojskowa Administracja Radzieckiej Strefy Okupacyjnej Niemiec wobec kwestii łużyckiej w latach 1945–1948

Author(s): Piotr Pałys / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 73/2013

Keywords: Sorbian – Lusatioan national movement; 1945-1948; Lusatian Issue; Lusatian Act;

From the moment of finishing the military activity, the members of Sorbian – Lusatian national movement were striving for the best relationships with the occupational administration and the USSR approval for their independence aspirations. Russian people, however, did not respond to any of memos addressed. The tries aimed at achieving the possibility of sending Sorbian-Lusatian delegations to Moscow were ended up with failure. At the beginning of 1946, the Soviet authorities decided that Lusatia should still be the part of Germany. At the same time, the Sorbian-Lusatian people were ensured cultural and educational rights. The accomplishment of those arrangements was possible, no sooner than, in 1948, together with decreeing so-called the Sorbian – Lusatian Act by the Saxon State Sejm.

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Inflectional Morphological Complexity in Upper and Lower Sorbian: Gender and Classes of Inflection

Flexionsmorphologische Komplexität im Ober- und Niedersorbischen: Genus und Flexionsklassen

Author(s): Thomas Menzel / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2017

Keywords: flexion; morphology; lesser used language; upper; lower sorbian; inflection; language complexity

This work represents the first attempt at a comparative analysis of selected phenomena of inflectional complexity in Upper and Lower Sorbian. We start from the assumption that complex structures in inflectional systems do not appear by accident, but are dependent on general tendencies in language change. The conditions for the preservation or extension of inflectional complexity can be ascertained by a comparison of genetically related languages and are geared to the sociolinguistic circumstances. In this sense a linguistic comparison for Sorbian is also interesting when raising theoretical questions relating to language contact and language change. Only those grammatical categories are examined in the present study, which have an internal morphological basis, as they serve to classify paradigms: gender, subgenera (animacy and personality) and the system of inflectional classes. It transpires that the inflectional system of Upper Sorbian is less homogeneous with regard to its category base and is more complex than that of Lower Sorbian. However, Lower Sorbian is more complex in the structure of its inflectional classes: standardising innovations, which are typical of Upper Sorbian, or at least of some of its dialects, occur infrequently in Lower Sorbian. Also, the relationship between dialects and the written language can influence the diachronic development of the inflectional categories.

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Between Spanish and Catalonian Nation-Building.

Zwischen spanischer und katalanischer Nationsbildung

Author(s): Jean-Rémi Carbonneau / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: spanisch; katalanisch; Nationsbildung; kulturell; Sicherheit; Valencianisches Land; spanish; catalonian; nation-building; cultural; security; Valencian country

Cultural security is a polysemous concept in the field of minority research. From a po- litical perspective it can embody the right of a historical minority to self-determination; both in the sense of being able to choose its political status in relation to the encom- passing state and of affirming a collective identity and purpose in accordance with or in opposition to the nation-building process of the state majority. Following the example of Catalonia, the Valencian Country experienced a cultural renaissance at the end of the 19th century as a consequence of a deep-rooted feeling of cultural insecurity – especially regarding the social and political status of the Catalan language (called there ‘Valencian’) in relation to the dominant state-language Castilian. Since then, all further developments in the Valencian region took place in the context of an enduring tension be- tween the political allegiance of the region to the Spanish state and its attachment to the sociocultural entity called ‘the Catalan Countries’, which traces its origin back to the medieval confederation known as the Crown of Aragon. This national separateness gained in importance when set against the backdrop of the democratic transformation, which followed almost 40 years of the Franco dictatorship. This has resulted in a con- siderable split between the Left and the Right on the national issue in the Valencian Autonomous Community, between so-called Valencianism and Blaverism.

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Visible and Secure? Cultural Identity as a Source of Security.

Sichtbar und sicher? Kulturelle Identität als Quelle von Sicherheit

Author(s): Tatiana Zachar Podolinská / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: Sicherheit; kulturelle Identität; soziale Vernetzung; Predigerdiskurs; Pfingstler; Roma; Slowakei; security; cultural identity; social networking; pentecostal; pastoarl discourse; Roma; Slovakia

This contribution is meant to be a micro-case study of the issue of the institutional pro- duction and reproduction of security of a selected minority group in Slovakia, by tracing the process of social networking and reconstruction of (ethnic) identity on a religious base. Principal attention is paid to an analysis of the trans-social and trans-ethnic dis- course and the concept of „New Roma“ as a de-ethnicised and ahistorically constructed label with positive and non-ascriptive connotations. The Pentecostal concept of the „Family of God“ is studied in connection with the perception of an increased feeling of security not only within primary (family) networks, but also within hybrid (religion- based) networks. The „New Roma“ concept offered to Roma by pastors would increase the potential of Roma to enter also secondary (professional) and other kinds of networks within mainstream society and allow them positive visibilisation at the meso-level of society. The new forms of social networking together with the new concept of de- ethnicised and de-essentialised identity would allow Roma to change the management techniques from achieving security through invisibility to a more emancipative and assertive technique employing the paradigm „more visible = more secure“.

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Characters of the Bible in Slovak comparisons (against the background of other languages)

Персонажи Библии в словацких сравнениях (на фоне других языков)

Author(s): Irina Vladimirovna Kuznetsova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: phraseology; biblical characters; Slovak similes; phraseography; etymology;

This paper deals with the presentation of Slovak biblical similes in dictionaries and their usage by native speakers. Some of the examples are complemented with etymological commentaries.

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Changing Reality: Róža Domašcyna’s Path to Poetry

Wirklichkeit im Wandel: Róža Domašcyna auf dem Weg zum Gedicht

Author(s): Walter Koschmal / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: radio play; folklore; traditional costumes; autobiography; truth of art; femininity; Róža Domašcyna; Höspiel; Hörbild; Prosa; Wahrheit der Kunst; sorbisch; Folklore; Weiblichkeit; autobiografisch

Around 1990 Róža Domašcyna began writing both documentary and fictional radio plays that were mostly not published. This study analyzes the poet’s literary path by examining her radio plays and prose, including (auto)-biographical texts that deal with Sorbian folklore among other things. Domašcyna moves from texts concerning the everyday world and its truth to the non-representational truth of art. The everyday world is temporary content, not artistic truth. The author shows the truth of reality, of society’s materialistic life and her own very personal, familiar surroundings as ever changing forms of reality. The art going beyond this in her poetry is that of artistic logic and metamorphoses.

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Valency of the predicates with the meaning “HNĚV” [anger, upset, annoyance, wrath] in the Upper Sorbian

Valence predikátů z oblasti „HNĚV” v hornolužické srbštině

Author(s): Katja Brankačkec / Language(s): Czech / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: negative emotions; development of valency; language contact;

The paper investigates the development of valency of the Upper Sorbian predicates expressing negative emotions. Based on data from the corpus Hotko, the two most frequent and largely synonymous roots -hněw- and -mjerz- are compared with respect to the scale of their meanings. The data suggest that -mjerz- is used more frequently in more recent texts, and that it expresses lower intensity of emotion more often than -hněw-. The meaning of individual predicates in the text can be specified with the help of several valency supplements, which often have a structure paralel to similar words in German or Czech.

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The Custom of Vogelhochzeit (Bird Wedding) and Songs with Bird Motifs in the Folklore of North-Western and Eastern Slavonic Nations: Pragmatic and Functional Aspects

Der Brauch der Vogelhochzeit und Lieder mit Vogel­motiven in der Folklore der nordwest- und ostslawischen Völker: Pragmatische und funktionale Aspekte

Author(s): Žanna Nekraševič-Karotkaja / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: Vogelhochzeit; bird motifs; North-Western Slavonic folklore; Western Slavonic folklore; functional changes; folk songs; Volkslied; Vogel; nordwestlawisch; ostslawisch

Sorbian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian folk songs with bird motifs are examined in this article, including that of Vogelhochzeit. Traces of different genre combinations, modifications and revisions were discovered during an analysis of the structural content of these carols, which are linked to their functionality. So, for example, birds are celebrated in popular Polish carols, influenced above all by the story of Bethlehem. These carols present particularly typical social and psychological kinds of behaviour in the form of bird allegories. In this connection, the way this manifested itself moved in recent, and most recent, times from the level of traditional folklore into the sphere of ethno-pedagogy.

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