Inhalt / Contents

Madlena Malinkec
„Annales Budissinenses“ – nowe žórło k serbskim stawiznam zažneho nowowěka
S. 3
(“Annales Budissinenses” – a New Source for Sorbian History of the Early Modern Period)

The “Annales Budissinenses” represent an as yet unevaluated source for Sorbian historiography. The chronicle, which is preserved today in the diocesan archive of the Dresden-Meißen bishopric in Bautzen, was recorded in the 16th Century by three scribes connected to the collegiate chapter of St Petri in Bautzen. The Sorbian cleric, Jurij Hawštyn Swětlik, made a partial copy in the 18th Century. The following thematic fields of the “Annales” are relevant for Sorbian history: 1. The “Annales” contain the oldest reliably dated sentence in the Upper Sorbian language, possibly the oldest documented Sorbian sentence ever. This is contained in an entry from the year 1534, in which building works for the tower of the Petri church are described. The Sorbian civil oath of Bautzen, which up until now has been thought to originate from before the Reformation or in 1532, is now regarded as a text which originated after the Reformation, in all probability some considerable time after 1532. 2. The “Annales” contain the names of four clerics who conducted pastoral care for Sorbs in Bautzen in the 16th Century.

Karlheinz Hengst
Zurba – ein bisher unbeachteter Name für das frühe westliche Sorbenland
S. 21
(Zurba – A Previously Unnoticed Name for the Early Western Sorbian Area)

This study is devoted to the regional name Zurba used in a royal charter of 1140 for the bishopric of Naumburg. This form Zurba,used in documents to describe the linguistic area of settlement of the Old Sorbs east of the river Saale, which also included the region around Naumburg, is here examined for the first time from a linguistic point of view. An analysis of the formation, etymology, style and later use of the name then follows. In this context, connections relating to its linguistic history as well as to the history of Sorbian settlements are highlighted. One result of this, seen in connection with, amongst others, the treatment of the regional name Strupenice in 1136 for a smaller territory to the east of Jena, is confirmation that the royal charter referred to a larger area, while the documents issued by bishops and margraves, and many others, refer to smaller areas of settlement. Moreover, the unconditional use of loan names of Slav origin by the German authorities is again emphasized. As regards the accuracy of the spelling of Slav proper names reference is made to the clearly remarkable linguistic competence of the notaries in the chanceries.

Walter Wenzel
Der slawische Landschaftsname Schollene und seine Verwandten unter den Ortsnamen
S. 32
(The Slav Landscape Name Schollene and its Cognates in Place Names)

It has been established in many instances that there is a large degree of correspondence with regard to the origin, formation and meaning of landscape and tribal names on the one hand, and place names on the other. This also applies to the landscape name, Schollene, discussed here, as well as to a number of identical or similar sounding place names. It was deduced that the term Skolěne was the original form for the landscape name, as well as for the settlement name Schollene, formed in the same way and situated north east of Magdeburg near the Havel. This form probably also provides the basis for the place name Scholen, south of Magdeburg, as well as Schkölen, south west of Leipzig, while Schkölen, north east of Jena, can be seen as coming from Skoľane. An old locative plural, ending in -as, coming from *Skoľane, is hidden beneath Scholas, north east of Plauen, possibly also beneath Scholitz, north east of Leipzig, as well as Scholis, south east of Wittenberg. The landscape name Schollene is further reproduced by the migration of the Old West Sorbs down the Elbe right up into the north, into what later became the Polabian language area.

Bernd Koenitz
Unverstandene Lausitzer Ortsnamen
S. 38
(Misunderstood Lusatian Place Names)

The author of this article suggests new explanations for 17 Upper Lusatian and 2 Lower Lusatian place names, which have caused particularly severe difficulties for previous research or in which essential aspects have been given insufficient consideration. This analysis summarizes what could be responsible for a lack of understanding in previous toponomastic research. Amongst the following causes are mentioned: insufficient consideration given to possible stronger contractions in their development, the possibility of false back-formations and false composition/decomposition, the failure to take account of morphological features of Sorbian name forms, but in particular also the discernible prejudice that New Sorbian name forms were of little relevance in the reconstruction of Old Sorbian forms or that the New Sorbian name forms could not be explained as deriving from an internal Sorbian process but only from German influence.

Materialije / Miscellaneous

Alfred Roggan
Die sorbische/wendische Missionarin Maria Lobak/Marija Lobakojc aus Turnow, genannt Maria Lobach (1798–1853)
S. 63
(The Sorbian/Wendish Missionary Maria Lobak/Marija Lobakojc from Turnow, called Maria Lobach (1798–1853)

Maria Lobak died in 1853 in Paramaribo from the after-effects of a serious tropical disease. Her deeply religious way of life as well as her work as a preacher, in community building and caring for the sick, which was conducted in the spirit of the Moravian Brotherhood message, was given immediate acknowledgement by the local missionary organisation of the Brotherhood in Herrnhut. When an official obituary was due to be written in 1856, it became clear that much about her life’s work was known, however hardly anything was known about the period before she entered the service of the Moravian Brotherhood in Herrnhut. There was particular uncertainty about her family background and the first part of her life in her Peitz/Turnower homeland. Knowledge about Maria Lobak/Marija Lobakojc, who served as a missionary between 1844 and 1853, has here been supplemented with the current article about her childhood and youth. In this, particular attention has been given to her family origins, her upbringing in the Sorbian/Wendish cultural sphere in Lower Lusatia, as well as to the decisive influence of the Herrnhut revivalist movement.

Doris Teichmann
Andreas Tharaeus als Pfarrer in Friedersdorf
S. 72
(Andreas Tharaeus as Pastor in Friedersdorf)

After completion of the essay “New Discoveries about Andreas Tharaeus Muscoviensis” on his funeral sermon for Eva von Schönburg auf Großleuthen printed in 1618 the author discovered a further hitherto unknown funeral sermon written by Tharaeus in the holdings of the Wolfenbüttel Duke August’s library. From this sermon it becomes clear that he was already pastor in Friedersdorf in 1599, from which it can be assumed that he had already been performing his duties there for several years. The author supposes that this citizen of Muskau already assumed office in Friedersdorf in the middle of the 1590s. This assumption is supported by references in the funeral sermon for Christina von Langen auf Blossin, who had died in childbirth on 14 July 1599. In addition there is the first evidence here of Tharaeus’s poetic skills, as the funeral sermon for Christina von Langen ended with rhyming verses.

Franc Šěn
Dotal njewozjewjene dopisy Jana Arnošta Smolerja
S. 85
(Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Jan Arnošt Smoler)

This article offers a short editing history of the previously unpublished correspondence of Jan Arnošt Smoler, the most important representative of the Sorbian national movement in the 19th Century. Reference is made to the correspondence with I. P. Kornilow, A. D. Bašmakow, J. I. Kraszewski und A. Patera, which has not been considered in previous surveys. Five of his letters are published: to Leipzig students in 1838, to František Palacký in 1848, to Ignac Hanuš in 1854, to Karel Jaroměr Erben in 1861 and to Bronisław Grabowski in 1881.

Diskusija / Debate

Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
Wokół zagrożenia języków, rewitalizacji i ideologii językowych. Polemika z artykułem Tadeusza Lewaszkiewicza
S. 95
(Concerning Language Endangerment, Revitalization and Language Ideologies. The Polemics around Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz’s Article)

In his article entitled “Lower and Upper Sorbian – Endangered or Dying Languages?” published in Slavia Occidentalis 71 (2014) 1, Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz presents the situation of the two Sorbian languages and claims that they are doomed to die before the end of the 22nd Century. He blames the critical situation of these languages on the Sorbs themselves who – according to him – “care mainly for material comfort and national aims are of secondary importance”. In my opinion, Lewaszkiewicz’s article presents a number of false theses (relating to bilingualism, the role of the education process for language revitalization etc.) and represents itself as a document that could be called applied language ideology. In my paper I discuss some of the ideas presented by Lewaszkiewicz. Using Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic power and Chromik’s idea of three levels of language ideology, the mechanism of the minority language abandonment process is explained. It is also demonstrated why – from the point of view of language revitalization – creating a prognosis for the death of a language is dangerous for motivation and language attitudes within a speech community and also by the same token for the future of minority languages themselves.

Jubilej / Anniversaries

Ines Keller
Dr. Martin Walde zum 65. Geburtstag / S. 107

Recensije / Reviews

Dietrich Scholze
Monika Blidy: Das Hügelchen, fünf Kornhalme hoch. Realität – Fiktion – Imagination in Jurij Brězans reifer Schaffensphase. Dresden: Neisse Verlag 2016 (= Dresdner Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek; 8), 199 S., 15 Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografien
S. 110

Holger Kuße
Jana Schulz: Bilingualer Spracherwerb im Witaj-Projekt. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag 2015 (= Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts; 60), 232 S.
S. 112

Inge Bily
Walter Wenzel: Atlas niedersorbischer Zunamen. Nach Quellen des 14. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag 2015, 160 S., 70 farbige Karten
S. 116

Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz
Renata Bura: Zapożyczenia czeskie w słowniku Pfula. Terminologia naukowa. Kraków: Wydawnictwo LEXIS 2015, 215 + 5 s.
S. 119

Walter Wenzel
Viktor Petrovyč Šul´gač: Narysy z praslovʼjans´koï antroponimiï. Častyna II. . Kyïv: Instytut ukraïns´koï movy 2015, 500 S.
S. 124

Ludwig Elle
Detlev Rein: Zum Anspruch der Sorbinnen auf weibliche Formen des Nachnamens. Gutachten ohne Auftraggeber. Bautzen: Sorbisches Institut 2015 (= Kleine Reihe des Sorbischen Instituts; 26), 67 S.
S. 126

Ludwig Elle
Rainer Hofmann, Doris Angst, Emma Lantschner, Günther Rautz, Detlev Rein (Hgg.): Rahmenübereinkommen zum Schutz nationaler Minderheiten. Handkommentar. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2015, 616 S.
S. 127

Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska
Michael Hornsby: Revitalizing Minority Languages. New Speakers of Breton, Yiddish and Lemko. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2015 (Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities), pp. XIV, 168
S. 130

Jean Rémi Carbonneau
Alain-G. Gagnon: Das Zeitalter der Ungewissheiten. Essays über Föderalismus und nationale Diversität. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2014 (= Schriftenreihe des Europäischen Zentrums für Föderalismus-Forschung Tübingen; 42), 217 S.
S. 137

Ursula Hemetek
Theresa Jacobs: Der Sorbische Volkstanz in Geschichten und Diskursen. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag 2014 (= Schriften des Sorbischen Instituts; 59), 248 S.
S. 143

Ines Keller
Karen Ellwanger, Andrea Hauser, Jochen Meiners (Hgg.): Trachten in der Lüneburger Heide und im Wendland. Münster: Waxmann 2015 (= Visuelle Kultur. Studien und Materialien; 9), 436 S.
S. 144

Friedrich Pollack
Hermann Frhr. von Salza und Lichtenau: Die weltliche Gerichtsverfassung in der Oberlausitz bis 1834. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot 2013 (= Schriften zur Rechtsgeschichte; 163), 541 S.
S. 148

Stephanie Bierholdt
Andreas Beaugrand (Hg.): Die Alte Ziegelei Westeregeln. Geschichte und Geschichten vom Kalkberg. Oschersleben: dr. ziethen verlag 2015, 552 S., zahlreiche farbige Abb.
S. 150