/r/Kurrent
About the old german Kurrentschrift as well as the Sütterlinschrift
Welcome to the Kurrent-sub. This is intended to collect all kinds of posts related to the German Kurrentschrift as well as the Sütterlinschrift, including translation requests that pop up every so often.
Many of those post come from
To view the new unanswered posts click here.
If you see a post about Kurrent in one of theses subs, please link to the original thread (and not directly to the image) and answer all questions there. Please also include an estimate of the length of the text.
If you have multiple or very long documents, do not post them all at once. Wait a day or two before posting the next one. (If they are related, ideally you add links back to the previous posts.)
This should just be a place for everyone interested in Kurrent no matter whether from a historical perspective or as a ressource for learning Kurrent or any other reason.
A nice overview and history about Kurrent can be found here. (by Ralf Herrmann).
Related Subs:
Other resources:
- Primer for Americans for learning German, kurrent and fraktur, 1904
- archive.org - Copy book from around 1700
- kurrentschrift.net - Overview and course for Sütterlin/Offenbacher/Kurrent
- suetterlinschrift.de - Historic Comparisons of Handwriting
- Bavarian state archive - exercises and examples from different periods
- Muecke Handwriting Course
- "Grundmässige Anweisung, zur Teutsch-Lateinisch-Italienisch-Französisch- und Holländischen modernen Schreib-Kunst" — Michael Baurenfeind, 1736
- Ad Fontes: Transcription exercises and a lot of information by the university of Zürich
- "Methodische Anleitung zum Schön- und Schnellschreiben : nach Carstairs'schen Grundsätzen für Elementarschulen, wie für lateinische und Real-Anstalten bearbeitet" - Wilhelm Heinrich Nädelin 1839
- Schrift Generator für deutsche Hand- und Frakturschriften
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Can someone please translate this for me? Thanks!!
17:19 UTC
Beruf entziffern
In der nächsten Zeile steht der Name, so dass ich vermute, dass hier der Beruf steht. Kann mir jemand helfen? Danke!
11:52 UTC
Kann das jemand lesen?
Ein paar Wörter kann ich entziffern aber den kompletten Text leider nicht. Würde mich über Hilfe freuen - danke 🙂
11:41 UTC
Inscription in Rilke Book from 1938
Hi, Can anyone help me to read this cursive German text? It was inside the front page of a Rilke biography I got in Darmstadt Thanks very much in advance
06:45 UTC
Hilfe bei der Ahnenforschung
Guten Abend. Hier ist ein Auszug eines Trauungsregisters mit dem Posten "Namen und Stand." Neben dem Namen Ferdinand August Wehler kann ich leider nichts mehr lesen. Er dürfte etwas mit Dampfschiffen und Inspektionen zu tun gehabt haben. Das kleinere auf der linken Seite ist nicht so wichtig, denke ich. Ich bedanke mich vielmals für jegliche Unterstützung! LG
20:44 UTC
Could anyone please translate this text from an old floor plan?
We have a floor plan from decades ago and are having a hard time reading this text. Could anyone help? Thank you!
07:42 UTC
Entry from 1752 - Transcription help
Hello, wondering if someone might be able to please transcribe these two entries?
04:04 UTC
Can someone please transcribe/translate this for me? Thanks so much in advance!
02:30 UTC
Welche Adresse steht hier?:)
Lichtenberg kann ich erkennen, aber was steht dahinter und darunter?
22:44 UTC
Need Help Translating German Documents for Citizenship Application
Hey everyone, I’ve been working on my family history to apply for German citizenship, and I’ve come across a few documents that I believe are essential to my application. Unfortunately, I’m having trouble finding someone who can accurately translate these old documents, and I’d be incredibly grateful if anyone here could help! These documents are related to my 4th great-grandparents, who were born in Germany. I need a clear translation to verify some key details about their citizenship before they immigrated to America. If anyone here has experience with historical German records or could help me understand the text, I would deeply appreciate it. Your help would bring me closer to my goal of reconnecting with my roots. Thank you to everyone who’s willing to lend a hand, any assistance would mean the world to me! I highlighted the names that I need information but anything that has the name Weber, I need information on.
22:42 UTC
Welche Stadt steht hier?
19:47 UTC
Was steht da für eine Stadt?
19:37 UTC
Ich versuche Kurrent zu transkribieren. Helt mir bitte
Es geht um etwas kirchliches: "Umfang der .....?" Evtl. kenne ich den Fachbegriff einfach nicht.
Danke!
18:03 UTC
Kann mir jemand helfen, eine alte deutsche Postkarte zu entziffern? Ich habe sie im Familienarchiv gefunden, kann sie aber nicht lesen.
11:14 UTC
Hilfe beim Transkribieren eines alten Briefes benötigt.
Hey, ich benötige Hilfe beim Tranksribieren des Textes, welcher mit „Lieber Kurt“ anfängt, da ich mich mit dieser Handschrift schwer tue. Danke schonmal im Vorraus!
10:59 UTC
Ahnenforschung - Wer kann mir das übersetzen?
Sollte sich um eine Todesursache handeln (… in Folge von …) Danke!
22:04 UTC
Need Help Identifying handwriting on My 5th Great-Grandfather Birth Certificate
I'm currently researching my family history and I have a birth certificate for my 5th great-grandfather who's born in 1817 (https://imgur.com/a/rrQGoAp) that I need help interpreting.
Could anyone transcribe the text for me?
17:26 UTC
Help transcribing/translating handwritten notes
Thank you very much in advance!
17:19 UTC
.... Robert Schenke
Bis auf die Geburtsdaten und den Namen Robert Schenke kann ich da leider nichts entziffern.
14:20 UTC
What do these few lines say?
Wondering what these few lines say?
05:40 UTC
Transcription of old marriage record
Hello,
I was hoping that someone might be able to please transcribe these marriage records either into German or English (if possible) as I can't read it unfortunately. Only looking for the very bottom entry (no. 24) (and column headings, if possible!) for Carl Ludwig Altmann and Regina Rohde, and the top entry for Friedrich Rohde and Regina Wiedemann.
00:36 UTC
Can anyone help me read this? It is written at the beginning of an aria manuscript from 17th/18th century. I can understand current German moderately well, so a transcription is enough - but translation is welcomed too.
20:01 UTC