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Old GermanScripts and Typescripts:
A Cultural Unitfor Your Students
Sarah Glenn DeMaris
Valparaiso University
Old German Handwritten Scripts Your Students Have
Seen• Letters from a great-grandparent
• Family documents or diaries
• Entries in a family Bible
Old German TypescriptsYour Students Have Seen
• Old printed books with a “funny” font
• “Gothic” print in fantasy books or websites
• Ads for “renaissance fairs”
• On souvenir beer steins
• Wedding invitations
Why Today?
• To conduct research?
• To learn a “secret” language?
• To teach something different?
• To slip other learning into the lesson?
The Five C’s• Communication
• Culture
• Connections
• Comparisons
• Communities
Historical Background:
Carolingian Miniscule
From the “Gospels of Lothar”
Tours – about 850
Historical Background:
Blackletter
Dominican ManuscriptNürnberg, 1436Blackletter
Note:
• jointed angles
(typical Blackletter)
Also Note:
• use of abbreviations
• punctuation (lack of)
• punctuation (use of)
• two examples of “s”
Blackletter
Printed !
“Teuerdank”
1517 Nürnberg
Blackletter Styles “Peculiar to Germany”Fraktur (left) Schwabacher (right)
Deutsche Schreibschrift
• 1917 Sütterlin-Schrift in Prussian schools
• by 1935 in all German schools
• 1941 abolished
Deutsche Schreibschriftin the USA
Witter’sDeutsch-Englische
Schreib- und Lese-Fibelund
Neues Erstes LesebuchFür Amerikanische Freischulen
Now Let’s Practice!Reading:
• a medieval manuscript text
• a printed text in Fraktur
• a 19th-century German-American manuscript text
Writing: Your name!