http://www.bunker-kundschafter.de/Liedermusikanten.htm
Why do so many of these songs give the girls names ending with “-marie”?
There’s nothing really special with regard to songs specifically. Marie’s the German form for the mother of Jesus, and one of the most popular girl’s names around. At least in Europe or other Christian-influenced areas, Germany included.
Where did you find that site? Looks extremely dodgy and far right-wing to me. You don’t find many mainstream Germans glorifying the soldier’s songs from WWII.
But yes, panamajack is right, Marie is German for Mary and a lot of names end with it - you know how much we love word compounds!
Cannot say if the OP’s assertion is correct because I don’t know these dated marching songs;
- Marie is the second most popular second first name for German girls born 1890-2005 (cite Die häufigsten Zweitnamen ) - the most popular one being Maria
(note: Germans often have multiple first names - you can register up to five first names at birth; I have two and my father has four. For very legal and very official use you use all of them; for everyday use you choose one to go by.) - There are a number of compound female first names ending on -marie (Annemarie, Rosemarie, Heidemarie etc.) - perhaps because they are euphonious
- The stress in the -marie compound first names being on the last syllable, they may be particularly suitable for purposes of scansion.
Yikes, this website looks like a double flashback from the past, thematically/ideologically from sometime between 1933-45, and by design from 1996. Either way disgusting.
Marie as Mother of Jesus is also a very common name in Catholic areas, as second or third name.
Interesting bit: Under German law, when a child is given its name by the parents, certain guidelines have to be met (normal spelling, no demeaning name, name must be established, so no novelty names*). One of them is that the first name must indicate the gender of the child unambiguously, and even with second and more names, you’re not allowed to give a boy’s name to a girl and vice versa (ambigous abbreviations can be second names, though).
The only exception is for boys to have Maria as second name in Catholic areas. That’s why there are famous male people having a female name.
To expand on that, if the first name is ambiguous, you have to add an unambiguous second name. That’s why my nephew is called Kim Philipp.
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Interestingly,Wikipedia (German) says that this is not official law, just Rules for the Register officials (Standesbeamte) and a bunch of Court decisions; and also, that the unambiuous sex is no longer required, since that requirement has recently been struck down.
Most of the songs are non-ideological from the titles and context. And I don’t see this site “glorifying” the Nazis themselves as much as the common soldiers,
It was linked to from a mainstream history forum, and I can’t read German but the information largely seems focused on the songs and nothing political.
Take me to your lieder.
Is it twue what they say about bwack men?
I like your confident assertions about a website that you can’t read. You may be right. What makes you think so?
From the text the song “Lili Marleen” is mentioned not to mention its singer is pictured. Since English is quite close to German one can often tell the context easily.
English is quite close to German, yet you can’t read it?
Why yes. How many people can read Swedish or Norweigian for instance?
How many people who can’t read Swedish or Norwegian confidently assert that they understand the meaning and the purpose of a website that is written in Swedish or Norwegian? I mean, beside Swedish Erotica?
I don’t see how that website is supposed to be glorifying the Nazis.
Through cognates and pictures.
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