The Translation of German Hymns into Romanian Between Poetry and Pragmatism

• Authors: Gerhild Ingrid Rudolf
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

After centuries of celebrating the divine services only in German language, the Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania (ECR) embarked during the last few decades on the use of a second language within church. The traditional “Evangelical-Saxon” identity of the congregations is undergoing a changing process. Having lost most of its members through emigration, the Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania copes with new social circumstances which have also an effect upon the choice of language. Therefore, in 2007, the ECR published a bilingual (German and Romanian) hymnal. Translating hymns is an intricate endeavour. The practical use of a bilingual hymn-book is challenging as well. The German-Romanian Evangelical hymnal is a witness of how the diaspora church accommodates itself to new linguistic conditions.

Keywords

EN

Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania; hymnal; language; translation; German; Romanian; bilingual; sociolinguistics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 85-99

Dates

published

2016-04-01

online

2016-05-28

Contributors

author

Gerhild Ingrid Rudolf

• Gerhild Ingrid Rudolf, Leiterin des Begegnungs- und Kulturzentrum Friedrich Teutsch, TEUTSCH-HAUS der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Rumänien, Doktorandin der Lucian Blaga Universität Sibiu. Adresse: Str. Mitropoliei 30, 550179 Sibiu, Rumänien

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ress-2016-0006