Ironically hitler terminated its use in 1941 because he thought it looked un german and was of jewish origin. From the sixteenth century until 1941 german handwritten documents used a cursive script kurrent kupferstich sometimes called fraktur or bruchschrift from the broken line that characterized the writing or sütterlin after the designer of one example of this script taught in german schools in the last century.
German writers used both cursive styles kurrent and english cursive in parallel.
German cursive alphabet. Kurrent is an old form of german language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing also known as kurrentschrift deutsche schrift german script and german cursive over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century many individual letters acquired variant forms. What are german scripts. The writing style can be further divided as looped italic or.
Sütterlin is based on the old german handwriting which is a handwriting form of the blackletter scripts such as fraktur or schwabacher the german print scripts which were used during the same time. A short handy reference guide with an alphabet reading tips and record samples is found here. For examples of old german gothic handwriting see the pdf file handwriting guide.
German orthography is the orthography used in writing the german language which is largely phonemic however it shows many instances of spellings that are historic or analogous to other spellings rather than phonemic. The pronunciation of almost every word can be derived from its spelling once the spelling rules are known but the opposite is not generally the case. Old german gothic handwriting and print are very different from the roman script most english speaking genealogists use.
A list of given names with handwritten examples from records is found here. Cursive also known as script among other names is any style of penmanship in which some characters are written joined together in a flowing manner generally for the purpose of making writing faster in contrast to block letters formal cursive is generally joined but casual cursive is a combination of joins and pen lifts. It also had the long s ſ as well as several standard ligatures such as ff f f ſt ſ t st s t and ß ſ z or ſ s.
Kurrent kurrentschrift is the cursive version of fraktur used from the beginning of the 16th century into the early 20th century.
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