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Subject: Re: Antw: Hannover-Hochdeutsch?/Hanover German as Standard German
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In article <peterk.0p5s@combo.ganesha.com>,
peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel) writes:
 
>In article <IJF.96May30161539@ullr.imsid.uni-jena.de> ijf@ullr.imsid.uni-jena.de (Johannes Fabinder) writes:
>>
>>Mir ist aufgefallen, da in deutschen Filmchen der Klischee-Zuhlter
>>hufig einen sterreichischen Akzent hat, ob es ein wienerischer ist,
>>halte ich nicht auseinander. Das sagt aber schon was ber die
>>Erwartungshaltung der Deutschen aus?!
>
>Wohl vielleicht auch etwas ueber den Erfahrungsschatz. Bis zur Oeffnung
>des Ostens war z. B. Hamburg St. Pauli fest in der Hand Oesterreichischer
>Zuhaelter, wenn ich mich an damalige Zeitungsberichte richtig erinnere.
>
>--
>Best Regards, Dr. Peter Kittel       // http://www.amiga.de or www.pios.de
>Private Site in Frankfurt, Germany \X/  Email to: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
 
Let's come back to the original question, perhaps.
 
I found a reference in Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men on the
Bummel" (less famous than his "Three Men on a Boat"):
 
"To Hanover one should go, they say, to learn the best German.
The disadvantage is that outside Hanover, which is only a small
province, nobody understands this best German. Thus you have to decide
whether to speak good German and remain in Hanover, or bad German
and travel about."
 
This was first published in 1900 which gives us at least an early
terminus ante quem. So far I haven't been able to find any
references in German literature. I vaguely recall to have read
something about it at Wilhelm Busch, but I'm not sure.
 
Regards, 
Manfred Kiefer
 
