This article was written in February 1989 by Dr. Maria Beate von Loeben who was born in the village of Kuppritz in 1927 and lived there until 1945. Kuppritz is about five miles east of Bautzen in former East Germany. Dr. von Loeben is an instructor of English at Wurzburg University. In November 1989 the […]
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It goes without saying that our Wendish and German forebearers encountered illnesses and maladies of all sorts. How did they deal with them? Let’s take a look at some of the remedies used to give relief and/or to bring about desired results for maladies, dating from the days back in Germany, all the way into the 1940’s here
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Every January 25th, the Wends go to the birds. Want to know more? Vogelhochzeit is a custom that was celebrated among many of the Wends in Texas until the 1940’s. It then gradually died out, until more recent years when attention was brought to it again. My mother recalled the custom very well and often told
Even though Dr Roland Marti is not a Wend by birth he has chosen Wendish studies as his lifetime work. If you are able to easily learn foreign languages we would like to encourage you to consider Wendish or Sorbian as a field of study. Dr Roland Marti was born in 1953 in Geneva (Switzerland).
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