Way of life
The German language knows no bounds
To the International mother language day, we provide German-language media around the world: radio stations in Namibia and Spain, as well as by German emigrants founded Newspapers in Chile, and the USA.
Language is a cultural asset. It creates identity, provides guidance, with your press, we. Around 6,000 languages worldwide are spoken – half of them, however, by so few people that they really are threatened with extinction. However, the International mother language day a sign. In the year 2000 by the UNESCO launched, he every year on the 21. Committed in February. He would particularly like to the many minority languages, the attention of the small communities have an affiliation.
English is certainly not a minority language. On the contrary: the World’s talking about 100 million people, German. Many of them belong to a German-speaking minority, formed by former colonies such as the Deutschnamibier, by emigration, such as the Deutschchilenen or by shifting borders and escape to Get.
How do you keep your own culture and identity upright – particularly in countries like Chile, Namibia and the USA, many thousands of kilometres from home to away? A successful means are own Newspapers, Radio and television stations.
Our five most interesting discoveries:
1. German music from San Francisco: Radio Goethe
Radio Goethe plays music from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
What actually comes of our German music abroad? And how? The answers are in 20 years of living in the USA Journalist Arndt Peltner. He moderated and produced the music broadcasting Radio Goethe, on a student radio station pumps out in San Francisco for the first time, over the Airwaves went. Meanwhile, it is of more than 40 radio stations played in the USA, but also in Namibia and Eastern Europe. Does the music journalist, the filmmaker Wim Wenders-personal views has been replaced, by the German Consulate of San Francisco and the Goethe-Institut.
2. Traditionsblatt: The Chilean newspaper Condor
Condor is the third oldest newspaper in the country – and a German. Founded in 1938, the newspaper is Condor, which is now also online and can be read by a consortium of 25 Gemeindeblättern of German immigrants. The had 1850 on the way to Chile. Today, about 500,000 million Chileans of German immigrants, German is, however, only 40,000 of them native. Therefore, the Condor, language-learning as one of its tasks, and also inform, in an edition of 7000 copies weekly about current events in the country.
3. Pop music and German messages: Hitradio Namibia
Since August 2012, is the Hitradio Namibia on the air. It is the first commercial German radio station in Namibia. Was founded the radio station of a German-Namibian journalists and a Namibierin. News from Namibia, Africa and the world, and a lot of music to shape the program – Hits of the 80s, 90s and the noughties-years-alternate with the current international pop music. A concern of the creators but it is also the Namibian young talents, write them on your Website. Via live-stream on the program even in the world to hear.
4. Mer schwetze the Mudderschprooch: Hiwwe as Driwwe
U.S. newspaper “Hiwwe as Driwwe” appears in Pennsylvania German
Nothing understood? Then you are probably not one of the 400,000 Pennsylvania-German-speakers. The language is of German immigrants since the 17th century. Century in North America, spoken, on the one hand preserved, but on the other hand also developed. It is similar to the Palatinate dialect, and is used today by the descendants in the U.S. States of Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and in Parts of Canada spoken. A separate newspaper, there are also: “Hiwwe as Driwwe” is, so strokes as well as over there. It is published two times a year, some copies are also available in Germany. The Internet edition also holds an English Version, travel tips for Pennsylvania in high German and a Onlinesprachkurs in Pennsylvania-German.
5. Inselradio for tourists and expats: Mallorca 95,8
Beyond the Ballermanns: German Radio for island-Teutons
Of course, also include media, such as the Inselradio to the German Auslandsmedien. Around 30,000 Germans live permanently on Mallorca, one of those added each year for several months on the island of life, it’s about twice as many. The Inselradio supplies listeners with world news, tips for learning or useful information, to build a house or tours. On Ballermannmusik – so hit – and Stimmungshits – is waived. Similar offers are there everywhere, where increasingly more German way of life – not only to other Spanish Islands, but also on the French Riviera.