Der grobe Pommer: über die Pommern, ein Stereotyp und eine Anekdote

Abstract

The story about the rough Pomeranian has been repeatedly revised and published – by editors who have been independent of each other – for almost half a millennium. It has been modi-fied by about 35 authors in about 40 versions. Its roots seem anecdotal; it has been adapted in epic, lyrical and dramatic texts. It referred to a long-established stereotype with negative con-notations about the region of Pomerania and its inhabitants. On the one hand, it showed the perception of the autochthonous population, but on the other hand, it also offered a way of dealing with this detrimentally tainted image. The article compares individual variants of the story and interprets them imagologically.

Keywords

• Pomerania
• stereotype
• imagology
• anecdote