Area of Study:

Danube Swabian settlements in Hungary, Romania, Croatia, and Serbia

Speakers:

middle-aged and older generation, dialect-competent

Data Collection Period:

1970s–1990s

Supervisor(s):

Hans Gehl (Tübingen)

Scope:

ca. 550 audio recordings, ca. 700 hours

Amount available in REDE:

169

Topics:

Wenker sentences, narratives, numerals, days of the week, specialized vocabulary

Website:

http://www.idglbw.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=128

References:

Gehl, Hans (1993): Bericht zum Projekt: Donauschwäbische Mundartforschung am Institut für donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde in Tübingen.  In: Jahrbuch für ostdeutsche Volkskunde 36, S. 349–356.

Gehl, Hans (1996): Datenerhebung in der Mundartforschung, in: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur in Südosteuropa - Archivierung und Dokumentation. Hrsg. von. A. Schwob und H. Fassel. München, 71–81

Gehl, Hans (2004): Erfahrungen aus der donauschwäbischen Wörterbucharbeit. In: Braun, Angelika (Hrsg.): Beiträge zu Linguistik und Phonetik. Festschrift für Joachim Göschel zum 70. Geburtstag. (= ZDL Beihefte 118), Stuttgart, 218–241.

Notes:

the majority of the audio recordings were collected by Hans Gehl himself during the production of the Wörterbuch der donauschwäbischen Fachwortschätze

Area of Study:

Germany

Speakers:

primarily middle-aged and older informants, mostly dialect speakers

Data Collection Period:

1960s–1990s

Supervisor(s):

Joachim Göschel (Deutscher Sprachatlas) and others

Scope:

ca. 550 audio recordings

Amount available in REDE:

326

Topics:

Wenker sentences, narratives, dialogues, image descriptions, anecdotes, poems, songs

Website:

References:

Göschel, Joachim (Hrsg.) (1977): Die Schallaufnahme deutscher Dialekte im Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache. Marburg.

Göschel, Joachim (1992): Das Forschungsinstitut für Deutsche Sprache „Deutscher Sprachatlas“, Wissenschaftlicher Bericht. Forschungsinstitut für Deutsche Sprache, Marburg.

Notes:

This collection was used for the project “Phonetisch-phonologischer Atlas von Deutschland” (PAD).

Area of Study:

Germany and abroad

Speakers:

Speakers of all ages; primarily dialect-competent

Data Collection Period:

1960s–1990s

Supervisor(s):

Joachim Göschel (Deutscher Sprachatlas) and others

Scope:

ca. 600 recordings, primarily from other institutes or taken from publications (among them, Nils Århammar’s private archive)

Amount available in REDE:

20

Topics:

Wenker sentences, narratives, edited copies of recordings from shellac phonograph records, vocal and linguistic disabilities, cabaret, test sentences, all audio tape recordings from the “Phonai” series and the “Lautbibliothek der deutschen Mundarten”

References:

Göschel, Joachim (Hrsg.) (1977): Die Schallaufnahme deutscher Dialekte im Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache. Marburg.

Göschel, Joachim (1992): Das Forschungsinstitut für Deutsche Sprache „Deutscher Sprachatlas“, Wissenschaftlicher Bericht. Forschungsinstitut für Deutsche Sprache, Marburg.

Notes:

The collection is heterogeneous due to the variety of sources and speech forms. The acoustic quality of the corpus is variable.

Area of Study:

Baltic States, East and West Preussia, Memelland, Pommerania, East Brandenburg, Wartheland, Silesia, Sudentenland, Siebenbürgen, Bukowina, Bessarabien, Dobrudschka, Batschka, Banat, Zips, Gottschee, Galicia, Black Sea, and Volga Germans

Speakers:

displaced persons in their new residences in Germany; primarily dialect competent

Data Collection Period:

1954–58

Supervisor(s):

Walther Mitzka (Deutscher Sprachatlas), Ludwig Erich Schmitt (Deutscher Sprachatlas)

Scope:

ca. 1100 audio recordings

Amount available in REDE:

729

Topics:

narratives, dialogues, numerals, days of the week, Wenker sentences

References:

Möhn, Dieter (1962): 60 Jahre akustische Aufnahme deutscher Mundarten. In: Phonetica. Internationale Zeitschrift für Phonetik 8, 244–250.

Notes:

The ODG relied on the assistance of a large staff, among them, staff from the “Deutscher Sprachatlas”, Wörterbuchkanzleien, territorial associations, teachers and interested lay persons. For this reason, the quality of the recordings and the areal distribution are not consistent.

Area of Study:

East and West Preussia, Mennote colonies in South America

Speakers:

primarily older generation, dialect competent, mostly emigrants

Data Collection Period:

1960s–1990s

Supervisor(s):

Ulrich Tolksdorf and others

Scope:

ca. 700 audio recordings

Amount available in REDE:

108

Topics:

Wenker sentences, days of the week, numerals, narratives, scattered songs

Website:

http://www.adwmainz.de/projekte/preussisches-woerterbuch/informationen.html

Notes:

The “Tonarchiv Preußisches Wörterbuch” is extensively comprised of the personal collection of Ulrich Tolksdorf (shelfmark: TATO), also the recordings of Mennonite Low German (shelfmark: TATOME). In addition, the collection contains recordings from the Zwirner Corpus as well as some recordings made specifically for the “Preußisches Wörterbuch”.

Area of Study:

Federal State of Hesse

Speakers:

school students and classes, private citizens middle-aged and older; primarily regiolect speakers

Data Collection Period:

1982

Supervisor(s):

Speakers recorded themselves. Design: Heinrich Dingeldein (“Deutscher Sprachatlas”)

Scope:

ca. 1200 recordings on cassette tape

Amount available in REDE:

508

Topics:

Wenker sentences, narratives, songs, audio dramas, plays

Notes:

The corpus comes from the dialect initiative “Ich sag’s hessisch” that was carried out in 1982 by the Hessian Sparkassen, Landesbausparkasse, and the Hesse-Nassau Insurance Company in cooperation with with the Hesse-Nassau Dictionary at the Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache at the Philipps-Universität Marburg. The initiative was primarily directed at school classes. It was designed as a contest that pledged recording contracts for the best dialect contributions.

Area of Study:

all wine-growing areas in Germany (Ahr, Baden, Franken, Hessian Bergstraße, Mittelrhein, Mosel, Nahe, Pfalz, Rheingau, Rheinhessen, Saale-Unstrut, Sachsen, Württemberg) in addition, numerous German linguistic islands in Europe (from east to west: Caucasus to Luxemburg, from north to south: Saxony to South Tirol)

Speakers:

vintner from the older generation, dialect-competent

Data Collection Period:

1993–2009

Supervisor(s):

Wolfgang Haubrichs (Saarbrücken), Maria Besse (Kaiserslautern), Roland Puhl (Kaiserslautern)

Scope:

521 recordings at 409 locations, 2600 hours

Amount available in REDE:

77

Topics:

Questions about winegrowing (special terminology), scattered Wenker sentences

Website:

http://www.winzersprache.de

References:

Besse, Maria/Haubrichs, Wolfgang/Puhl, Roland (2004): Vom Wein zum Wörterbuch – Ein Fachwörterbuch in Arbeit. Mit CD-ROM. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse. Einzelveröffentlichung Nr. 10, Stuttgart.

Besse, Maria (2003): Wörterbuch der deutschen Winzersprache (WDW). In: Wissenschaftliche Lexikographie im deutschsprachigen Raum. Heidelberg 2003, S. 397–410.

Notes:

The dictionary appeared in four installments on digital storage devices (CD, DVD).

Area of Study:

549 survey locations in the area of the central and southern part of the so-called Rhenish Fan; from north to south from the Ahr to the Wieslauter, and from east to west from the political borders of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Rhine.

Speakers:

Series 1: older (≥70 years old), informants who were born and raised at a particular location and who are immobile; they had manual occupations;

Series 2: informants who were born and raised at a particular location and who have a manual occupation; they differ in terms of age (30-40 years old) and mobility (commuters) from series 1

Data Collection Period:

1978–1988

Supervisor(s):

Günter Bellmann, Joachim Herrgen, Jürgen Erich Schmidt

Scope:

549 recordings (series 1), 292 recordings (series 2)

Amount available in REDE:

631

Topics:

question catalogue with 260 questions, i.e. ca. 1100 (series 1) and ca. 440 key words (series 2), all dialect geographic relevant sound and inflectional phenomena of the Central Rhenish dialects; in terms of content, for instance, lifeworld objects and happenings, artisanal work, and human body and health

Website:

http://www.igl.uni-mainz.de/forschung/dialektforschung/mittelrheinischer-sprachatlas.html

References:

Bellmann, Günter (1994): Einführung in den Mittelrheinischen Sprachatlas (MRhSA). Tübingen.

Area of Study:

221 survey locations in the area of southern Bavvaria, from north to south from Arnbruck to Kirchdorf am Inn, and from east to west from Breitenberg to Riedenburg

Speakers:

older (≥65 years old), indigenous informants, (formerly) manually or agriculturally busy

Data Collection Period:

1991–1998

Supervisor(s):

Hans-Werner Eroms

Scope:

207 recordings with 110 expressions each

Amount available in REDE:

207

Topics:

primarily lifeworld, manual and agricultural objects and activities

Website:

http://www.phil.uni-passau.de/index.php?id=3558

References:

Eroms, Hans-Werner/Röder, Birgit und Spannbauer-Pollmann, Rosemarie (2006): Einführungsband mit Syntaxauswertung. In: Eroms, Hans-Werner und Spannbauer-Pollmann, Rosemarie (Hrsg.) (2003ff.): Sprachatlas von Niederbayern. (Bayerischer Sprachatlas: Regionalteil 5). Heidelberg.