BAJUVARIANS
 
The Bajuvarians
are a “special case“ in many respects ...
- That’s not meant in a
negative way, but it should be said clearly right at the beginning. -
While most of the articles here are supposed to give an insight into
the variety of German culture and show that the stereotype of the lederhosen
wearing German with weisswurst in the “gob“ are wrong, exactly these things
are right when it is about Bajuvarians ...
- Even though someone from
Vienna probably won’t recognize himself in this description ...
This fortunately
already leads to the fact, that even the Bajuvarians themselves have culture
that consists of much more than such things ...
They have the
medieval heritage of Walther von der Vogelweide’s Minne, they have the
“Wiener Klassik = classical period/ music of Vienna“, wine-growing and they
have the revolution of 1848, which started in Vienna and also reached it’s
zenith here. They do however also have the Nazis - as especially
Bavaria, that stayed sooo Bavarian, while the German culture was defamed
everywhere else, was the “Home of the movement” - ... and Österreich,
“the first victim of Hitler“ was actually his personal homeland ...
It is one of the
most grotesque elements of Germany’s history since 1945 that this development
took place while the liberal traditions of Prussia were destroyed and denied.
This does however
not mean, that the typical kind of Gemütlichkeit of the Bajuvarian culture
would not deserve it’s respect!
- The Bajuvarians have a
wonderful riches of culture!
(1) Walther von der Vogelweide (from Tyrol) - The most famous minne
singer of the Middle-Ages
(2) Joseph Haydn (from Lower Austria) - Haydn composed the music of the German national anthem, as the
Kaiserhymne: “Gott erhalte Franz, den Kaiser = God preserve Franz, the
Kaiser”
(3) Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart (from Salzburg)
(4) Franz Beckenbauer
(from Munich) - Franz, the Kaiser ... - Oh no, “Kaiser Franz“ of course. -
FC Bayern Munich legend and Soccer World Champion of 1974 as a player
and of 1990 as “Teamchef = coach without license“.
Most of all however they have one thing: They
have an unsolved tribe name, which is probably not of Germanic origin. -
Or at least it’s hard to doubt the theory, that the Bajuvarians
(Baiern) are named for the Boiern/Boio, a Celtic tribe, which definitely
caused the name of Bohemia. In every case the ending „-waren = varian“ should
come from -warjaz/-verjaz, which is old-Germanic for “-inhabitant“. So the
Bajuvarians would be named for the land they lived in -
and where they had probably also arisen.
That they are based
on the celtic Boiern in any way, is hereby however not said at all! Roman
sources described the country as hardly inhabited and there are only few
indications that there were Boiern in “Bayern = Bavaria” at all. – Also linguistically there is no special
un-Germanic marking recognizable for the Bajuvarians. The history of the old
Celts in today’s Bavaria is however so great, that it deserves a little
anecdote nevertheless:
The Celts there
were famous for their skill in wrought-iron work during the early antiquity.
Their blades were bought by the Romans.
- The reason were however not
really the smiths, but the special material, which had once been brought into
the land by meteors. The craters are recognizable as lakes still today. The
blades from Bavaria substantially contributed to the rise of the Roman
Empire.
The theory that
the Bavarians could have come from a different world as well, would however
not be okay here (despite even Austrians might agree ...).
... and the same
is true about the conjecture, that an “early stage” of the Bavarians at the
North Sea or in Scandinavia already appears unimaginable, because a gruesome
tribe with short Lederhosen, that uses the permanent darkness of Nordic
winter nights to built crazy fantasy-beings out of bodyparts of dead animals,
would definitely have been mentioned in the Viking sagas still centuries
later … - On the other hand: Actually this idea explains very plausibly,
why nobody described the rise of the Bajuvarians in deep, dark valleys ... -
But like already said: No
bullying of Bavarians! …
So back to the
assumable formation of the Bajuvarians:
They probably arose in the land that marked
their typical culture - which is actually also the only theory
that really fits to the Bavarians:
“Mia san mia! - We are us!”
In the year 551
the Bajuvarians are documented as Bajuvarians for the first
time. Later the Homeland of the bajuvarians started to exist divided in a
similar way like today, but first it was Carinthia (today a member-state of
the Republic of Austria) that was a Dukedom of it’s own and not Austria,
which was to develop much later, from the small “Ostmark“. -
In 1452 the era of Kaisers from the Habsburg line began.
Henceforth all Kaisers came from their line, until the end of the Old Reich
in 1806. Austria had become the most important state in German history!
Remarkable is also that the way of writing
“Baiern = Bavarians” is scientifically used in German to show the difference
between the tribe (on the one side) and references to Bavarian states (on the
other side). The tribe of the “Baiern =
Bajuvarians“ is written with “I“. Any kind of
Bavarian state or it’s citizens/ subjects is written with “Y“ however: “Bayern = Bavarians”. - This needs to be
mentioned, because the “Bajuvarians“ in America are of course no “-waren
= inhabitants“ anymore, but actually “bairische”
Americans ...
The value and
extend of the Austrian mentality and own cultural specifics (of which
Austrians everywhere in the world should be proud!) makes it however
unimaginable to expect Austrians to call themselves “Baiern“ and reduce the
differences to the “Bayern = Bavarians” to an artificial, scientific „Y“.
This would be
just as silly as reducing the great wonder and bliss of femaleness to the
difference to a Y(-chromosome) …
- Love is always connected to
respect(!) and therefore we stick to the “oldfashioned“ term “Bajuvarians“ as
a symbol of unity - and of respect for our beloved Austrians!
This average Austrian
(middle) may be mentioned here as an example, as his cultural work has shown
references to the old metal processing in the homeland of the Bajuvarians,
and always made imaginable, why the Romans (left) lost to the Germans at the
end ... - … and why Austria became such an especially important power in
German history ...
(Danny Devito, Arnold Schwarzenegger - Source: Twins;
Universal/MCA; Production: Ivan Reitman)
Neither the separation by
state-borders, nor the Bavarian and Austrian patriotism have ever harmed the
awareness of a cultural connection. Even people, who immediately “get scared“
by the word ”German“ here, have no problem with the word “Bajuvarian“. –
Big parts of the Austrians have not even tried to get rid of the
Lederhosen! ...
For America this is of a giant
importance! Not only because it is very inspiring, but because Austrian
and Bavarian Bajuvarians are coming together in American culture-associations
just as a matter of course.
Paul Breitner (from Kolbermoor): One more Soccer World Champion of
1974 and FC Bayern Munich legend. Instead of “Kaiser“ he was called the
“Rebell“. Not the only thing our Hecker likes ... – “Paule“ Breitner once declared that the alleged “Bruderduell
= duel of brothers“ against the team of the so called “German Democratic
Republic”* would have most of all been a game against representatives of a
communist dictatorship to him. The games against Austria were the duels of
brothers to him!
* This State was never democratic and never a republic (a state of the
people)! Just using this name would be incorrect, manipulating and morally
wrong.
It is
for sure, that many proper Europeans would feel it to be very releasing and liberating,
if this spirit would get a bigger significance in America. -
The Bajuvarian culture in America does in every case have a very
much bigger value than one can recognize as long as prejudices make it
weigh down on any different German cultural appearance, despite America once
had so much of the German culture’s richness.
The
big attention that the Bajuvarian culture enjoys in America, gives it the chance
to bring an intellectual and emotional unity of the German nation ahead
again, free of political interests in power, just joyfully-American! This is
a perfect example for how wrong it is, if people think that German-American
associations would only have the task to maintain heritage -
here they have one of the biggest chances in German history(!) -
and the typical American courage to lead and move ahead, gives
them the necessary mentality as well!
Therefore
to all Bajuvarian Americans the request to mark their culture as
”BAJUVARIAN“. - It increases it’s value for the USA and
all your German sisters and brothers in the world. Your work could be so important!!! -
It only depends on what YOU make of this chance!
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