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Uršula Krevs Birk, Matjaž Birk

Uršula Krevs Birk

Eastern Europe is an area with a millennia-long history of migrations and multilingualism where the German language had an important function as a contact language, which was involved in intensive and dynamic interactions with its neighbouring or co-exist... see more

Felicja Ksiezyk

Early language contact research often focused on the so-called explicit language mixing, where the elements of one language were clearly present in the second language. This article is devoted to the less frequent manifestations of the so-called implicit ... see more

Grzegorz Chromik

In the south of Poland, there is a small town called Wilamowice (or Wilmesau in German) whose residents speak a dialect of German, specifically the Silesian dialect of German. Although it is a dialect of East Central German, it is often believed that its ... see more

Elisabeth Knipf-Komlósi, Márta Müller

After a presentation of the sociolinguistic conditions of the German speakers in Hungary, the paper discusses the usefulness of interviews through which language biographies can be constructed on the basis of the speakers’ experiences and practices as wel... see more

Csaba Földes

This evidence-based study presents current German contact varieties of Franconian origin from Southern Hungary. Based on a research and documentation project, the paper reveals characteristic processes, patterns and results of intensive German-Hungarian c... see more

Koloman Brenner

The German minority in Hungary, which has a lomg history, is one of the relatively large German minority communities in Eastern-Central Europe. In Hungary today, there are three large settlement areas, where members of the German minority are concentrated... see more

Doris Sava

Transylvania, which also comprises an important German linguistic island, has been historically characterized by multilingualism and by diglossia (dialect – standard language). Registry documents written in the German language outside the German linguisti... see more

Nedad Memic

After annexing Bosnia-Herzegovina, the role of Austria-Hungary in the territory was also shaped by an effort to culturally “missionize” the country and bring it closer to Central European cultural trends. The ongoing industrialization and huge infrastruct... see more

Vida Jesenšek

Since the beginning of the development of the city of Maribor in in 12th century, the contacts between the Slovene and German languages and cultures have had a great impact on its history. This German cultural influence became particularly evident in 13th... see more

Matej Šekli

On the basis of the relative and absolute chronology of some sound changes in (Bavarian) Old and Middle High German as well as in Proto-Slavic, Alpine Slavic, and Early Slovene, it is possible to establish a precise relative and absolute chronology of the... see more

Heinz-Dieter Pohl

The Slovene-German language contact in Carniola and the German-Slovene language contact in Carinthia are quite similar. In both countries, there has been a lot of language shift (replacement), such as in Zarz before 1941/45. The language shift in the nort... see more

Uršula Krevs Birk, Domen Krištofelc

The article deals with language contact in Kropa, a settlement in Upper Carniola. More than six hundred years ago, German-speaking migrants coming mostly from what is now Austrian Carinthia settled in Kropa where the metalworking industry was developing. ... see more

Sanja Radanovic

The Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918) was marked, among other things, by the immigration of numerous officials, engineers, craftsmen, peasants and people of other professions from various parts of the Monarchy. A significant subg... see more

Mitja Ferenc

Half a million speakers of German found themselves living in the new Yugoslav state after the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A small portion of them (about 30,000 people or 2.5% of the population) lived in present-day Slovenia in 1931. In ... see more

Ana Begovac

The paper examines the treatment of German minorities by different political powers, depending on the corresponding political situation. It provides an overview of the historical and political background of the Kocevje region and the Gottscheer Germans li... see more

Gregor Jenuš

In the 20th century, Maribor frequently experienced a radical transformation of its public image. The latter is particularly true for the first half of the century, when the struggle between Germans and Slovenes for the supremacy over the city and the ass... see more

Sigurd Paul Scheichl

Very few authors from ethnic German minorities in for example Austria-Hungary, Rumania and Russia found readers in German-speaking countries, that is primarily Germany and Austria, with the exception of writers who had moved to cities such as Vienna and B... see more

Anselm Heinrich

Theatre played a pivotal role in Nazi propaganda and cultural politics. The German language minority theatres, which continued to exist east and south of the new borders of post 1919 Germany, attracted a particular interest from the Nazi regime as they we... see more

Marijan Bobinac

Theatrical life in Zagreb – as well as in other comparable Central and East European cities – had long been dominated by performances of German-speaking theatre companies. The earliest performances in German, staged exclusively for domestic aristocrats, d... see more

Egor Lykov

This article offers an overview of recent trends in and perspectives of Volga German Studies, which is understood as a complex and heterogenous research field, bringing together history, theology, philology and the social sciences. After presenting the mo... see more

Matjaž Birk

The myths of the Gottscheer Germans, included in Gottscheer Volkstum in Sitte, Brauch, Märchen, Sagen, Legenden und anderen volkstümlichen Überlieferungen, a work of central importance for the collection and transmission of Gottscheer folk poetry publishe... see more

Thomas Nicklas

This paper seeks to contribute to the study of minority languages by shedding light on their position and status in Western Europe. In France, there is a long-established tradition of historical sociolinguistic research, notably represented by the histori... see more

Tristan Coignard

John Eiselmeier, who was born near Linz and who settled with his family in the southern part of Illinois in the 1870s, has so far received little scholarly attention. He trained as a teacher and gained teaching experience at various schools in Illinois, M... see more

Thomas Nicklas

Der Band ist reich mit Fotografien aus der Lebenswelt des 20. Jahrhunderts illustriert, die Abbildungen der Speisen und Gerichte sind sehr gelungen und erhöhen durch den optischen Reiz den Appetit und das Lesevergnügen. Die tschechisch-deutsche Zweisprach... see more

Heinz-Dieter Pohl

Dieses umfang- und inhaltsreiche Buch beruht zunächst auf der Bearbeitung von Dokumenten zur Sprach- und Minderheitenpolitik in Ungarn nach der Wende von 1989/1990. Dazu kommt dann die Erfahrung aus der langjährigen Expertentätigkeit des Verfassers für di... see more