Die Sprache der Vagabunden : eine Geschichte des Rotwelsch und das Geheimnis meiner Familie / Martin Puchner ; aus dem Englischen von Matthias Fienbork.

• Einleitung: Sprachspiele -- Tarnnamen -- Das Buch der fahrenden Bettler -- Ein Bild kommt zumVorschein -- Das Rotwelsch-Erbe -- Der König der Vagabunden -- Der Bauer und der Richter -- Ein Dachboden in Prag -- Als Jesus Rotwelsch sprach -- Fellöfchespra für Erwachsene -- Geschichte eines Archivars -- Anklage in Hikels-Mokum.

• They left secret signs to show those who followed where one was welcome and where not. And they used a secret code to survive on the streets. They were called vagabonds, outcasts, itinerant people. Their enigmatic language, Rotwelsch, fascinated Martin Puchner as a child in the Franconian provinces back in the 1970s. Much later, as a professor at Harvard, he will research this code as a scientist - and realize that his own family is also ominously connected to this language. A moving and touching book about the uncanny power of words - and a dark family secret. 

Ämnesord

German language  -- Slang. (LCSH)

Cant  -- Germany. (LCSH)

Thieves  -- Language. (LCSH)

Tramps  -- Language. (LCSH)

Language policy  -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

College teachers  -- United States -- Biography. (LCSH)

Allemand (Langue)  -- Argot. (Vedettes-matière)

Cant  -- Allemagne. (Vedettes-matière)

Voleurs  -- Langage. (Vedettes-matière)

Cant  (fast)

College teachers  (fast)

Families  (fast)

Language policy  (fast)

German language  -- Slang (fast)

Language and languages  -- Political aspects (fast)

Thieves  -- Language (fast)

Tramps  -- Language (fast)

Germany  -- Languages -- Political aspects. (LCSH)

Germany  (fast)

United States  (fast)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

autobiographies (literary works)  (aat)

Autobiographies  (fast)

Biographies  (fast)

History  (fast)

Biographies.  (lcgft)

Autobiographies.  (lcgft)

Biographies.  (rvmgf)

Autobiographies.  (rvmgf)

Personnamn

Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Puchner, Martin, 1969- -- Family.

Klassifikation

PF5995 (LCC)

437 (DDC)

Ff.00 (kssb/8 (machine generated))