The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99346   Message #1980290
Posted By: Leadbelly
26-Feb-07 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: German Folk- and Blues-Singers
Subject: RE: German Folk- and Blues-Singers
alanabit - Because of dialects not all people in Northern German are able to fully understand songs by e.g. Fredl Fesl from Bavaria and -vice versa- Hannes Wader occasionally singing low german songs is absolutely not understood in Southern Germany. And neither southern nor northern people are able to totally understand cologne dialect.

I believe that's a limitation of becoming popular all over Germany.
Nevertheless, standard resp. high german is perferred language of most folk singers.

Manfred