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Who understands Low german today and who can speak it? Who makes use of media and cultural events in Low German? What images do people in northern Germany associate with Low German and what is their view of their regional language? These and further questions are answered in this brochure with the help of representative data collected in a telephone survey of a total of 1,632 people from eight federal states (Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein as well as Brandenburg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony-Anhalt).

In the 19th century, thousands of people from the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach emigrated to America, Australia, Canada, Columbia, and elsewhere. What really happened during the 19th century in an ordinary town in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is the subject of the book Goodbye Forever – Life Beyond Germany. Information about emigration from the town of Tiefenort has been collected for the past ten years and is now presented in English for the first time. Tiefenort is representative of similar emigration patterns found in many other villages and towns of the region. Authentic historical accounts are reproduced and illustrated through original German newspaper clippings from the local press. Letters between relatives in Germany and America and reports from the town treasury give the reader a special understanding of the time of these emigrations, in particular the hardships of the era and the euphoria felt by many emigrants upon finding a better life abroad. Excerpts from ship manifests, family trees, and a detailed analysis of local emigration between 1840 and 1900 make this book even more unique.