A Wisdom Archive on Sorbs

During the mid 19th century many protestant Sorbs emigrated to Texas and Australia. The town of Serbin in Lee County, Texas was founded by these Sorbian immigrants. There they established a Missouri Synod Lutheran church. Most of these Sorbian immigrants spread throughout central Texas and were subsequently assimilated into the German culture of the region. Ironically, the fear of assimilation into German culture and language is exactly why they left the old world. However cultural identity remained important to some families and has led to ...

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Wends (German: Wenden, Latin: Venedi) is the English name for some Slavic people from north-central Europe, particularly the Sorbs living in modern-day Germany. The name is derived from Venetians (germ. Veneter) a term used for various non-Germanic tribes (similar to the term Welsh (germ. Welsch)). The term has not historically enjoyed consistent usage — it is mostly employed specifically for one or two Slavic groups but in the past it was often used as an over-arching term for all Slavic people. As a result, it is still difficult today to present ... Including:

• Wends - External link

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Cottbus (Sorbian: Chośebuz, Polish: Chociebuż, Czech: Chotěbuz, archaic German: Kottbus) is a city in Brandenburg, Germany, situated around 125 km southeast of Berlin on the Spree river. As of 30 June 2004, its population is 107,075. The settlement was established in the 10th century, when Sorbs erected a castle on a sandy island in the Spree river. The first mention of the town's name is from 1156. In the 13th century German settlers came to the town and thereafter lived together side by side wit ...

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Image:Rodlo flaga 2c.png Union of Poles in Germany (Polish: Związek Polaków w Niemczech, German: Bund der Polen in Deutchland e.V.) is an organisation of the Polish minority in Germany, founded in 1922. The union initiated collaboration between other minorities, including Sorbs, Danes, Frisians and Lithuanians. Union of Poles in Germany - Early history. The union was intended to express the views of the Polish minority in Germany, This partly comprised the native population of the for ... Including:

• Union of Poles in Germany - Early history
• Union of Poles in Germany - World War II and after
• Union of Poles in Germany - Timeline
• Union of Poles in Germany - 5 rules for Poles
• Union of Poles in Germany - Presidents
• Union of Poles in Germany - Press
• Union of Poles in Germany - Link

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Germany has many unique regions with their own folk traditions of music and dance. Much of the 20th century saw German culture appropriated for the ruling powers (who fought "foreign" music at the same time), and thus it remained decidedly "unhip" until later in the century. Most recently, the East German regime promoted folk music as long as it was what they saw as an expression of pure German tradit ...

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Main articles: Minnesingers and meistersingers After Latin-language religious music had dominated for centuries, in the 12th century to the 14th centuries, minnesingers (love poets), singing in German, spread across Germany. Minnesingers were aristocrats travelling from court to court who had become musicians, and their work left behind a vast body of literature, Minnelied. The following two centuries saw the minnesingers replaced by middle-class meistersingers, who were often master craftsmen in their main profes ...

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Main article: German classical music At the beginning of the 15th century, German classical music was revolutionized by a man named Oswald von Wolkenstein. Wolkenstein travelled across Europe learning about classical traditions, spending time in countries like France and Italy. He brought back some techniques and styles to his homeland, and within a hundred years, Germany had begun producing composers renowned across the continent. Among the first of these composers was the organist Conrad Paumann. ...

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Between World War I and World War II, German music developed very independent. Music of Germany - Cabaret. Main article: Cabaret The first form of German pop music is said to be cabaret, which arose during the Weimar Republic in the 1920s as the sensual music of late-night clubs. Marlene Dietrich and Margo Lion were among the most famous performers of the period, and became associated with both humorous satire and liberal ideas. "Wenn die beste Freundin" (1928) was an early lesbian-themed song. Music of Germany - Swing Movement. ...

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After World War II, German Pop Music was much influenced by music from USA and Great Britain. Apart from Schlager and Liedermacher, it is necessary to distinguish between Pop Music in West Germany and Pop Music in East Germany which developed in different directions. Pop Music from West Germany was often heard in East Germany, had more variety and is still present today, while East German music had only little influence. In West Germany, English language Pop Music became more and more important, and today most songs in Radio are Engli ...

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Music of Germany - Klezmer. Main article: German klezmer Germany has become a hotbed for klezmer music since about the 1980s, and has produced many of the most popular bands in the field since then. Controversially, many or most of the German klezmer bands are not, in fact, Jewish. Before World War II and the Holocaust, Jews in Germany had not taken much interest in klezmer, at least compared to Jews in places like the United States. During the Cold War, East German Jews like Lin Jaldati and Perry Friedman tried to establish a German Jewish musical sc ...

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The official statistics collect only nationality data: Germans 91.5%, Turks 2.4%, other 6.1% (made up largely of Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Italians, Russians, Greeks, and Poles). While most of the German citizens are ethnic Germans or naturalized immigrants, there are four other sizable groups of people that have lived in Germany for centuries. They are referred to as "national minorities" (nationale Minderheiten): Danes, Frisians, Roma and Sinti, and Sorbs. There is a Danish minority (about 50,000, according to government source ...

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