Vielstimmige Abgesänge? Konstellationen von Sprachvarietäten in "Südschleswiger" Literatur

Building on linguistic studies on multilingualism, this contribution elaborates the so-called Southern Schleswig literature as an area of tension of language varieties. An analysis of the manifestation of language ideology in a revue text (2016) and a poem (1977/2011) demonstrates that complex variety constellations are often wrongly dominated by aspects of territorial and identity politics. This article is pleading for the analysis of the reference to the addressees within multilingual literature and the social relations in which the communicating parties take their stand. The minority literature in Southern Schleswig has, as this paper shows, obviously taken over a new function, as the symbolism of a politics of memory in generation-specific remembrance literature is strongly apparent