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() is an old form of
File:Lessing Kleist-Brief.jpg, Letter from Lessing to Kleist, 14 March 1758
File:Schein und Sein.jpg, Manuscript by
German handwriting Schrift
Overview and examples of by N. A. Powell
German language page about , with history of German cursive handwriting and
Another version, by Lars Erik Bryld, called Manu Gothica
Kurrent-Schreibmaschine – Old German typewriter
An online assistant for better reading Kurrent
() is an old form of German-language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is a ...
handwriting based on late medieval cursive
Cursive (also known as joined-up writing) is any style of penmanship in which characters are written joined in a flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster, in contrast to block letters. It varies in functionality and m ...
writing, also known as ("cursive script"), ("German script"), and ''German cursive''. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.
German writers used both cursive styles, and Latin cursive, in parallel: Location, contents, and context of the text determined which script style to use.
is a modern script based on that is characterized by simplified letters and vertical strokes. It was developed in 1911 and taught in all German schools as the primary script from 1915 until the beginning of January 1941. Then it was replaced with ("normal German handwriting"), which is sometimes referred to as "Latin writing".
Lettering examples
Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day.
Busch drew on the tropes of f ...
(undated, late 19th century)
File:Bielsko-Biała Teatr Polski 004.JPG, Example from a book published in 1905
File:Paul Simmel - Das Kind und der Krieg,1916.jpg, script used for text in a 1916 children's book
File:Staedt.Kinderheim-01.jpg, Signage on a municipal children's home () in in 2006
File:Kurrent Note.jpg, A handwritten restaurant order in from the 1920s
File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p294-raw.png, script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the 26 letters, ligatures, start of sample text
File:Vos-essentials-of-german-p295-raw.png, script from a 1903–14 primer on German, the rest of the sample text
File:Jul-Greg-George-II-1750.tif, Final paragraph of a German contract from 1750 signed by George II, King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover. It contains a mixture of and 'Latin font' scripts.
File:Letter to George Stier.png, Handwritten letter, 1792
See also
* Antiqua–Fraktur dispute *Blackletter
Blackletter (sometimes black letter or black-letter), also known as Gothic script, Gothic minuscule or Gothic type, was a script used throughout Western Europe from approximately 1150 until the 17th century. It continued to be commonly used for ...
* Fraktur (script)
References
External links
German handwriting Schrift
Overview and examples of by N. A. Powell
German language page about , with history of German cursive handwriting and
Another version, by Lars Erik Bryld, called Manu Gothica
Kurrent-Schreibmaschine – Old German typewriter
An online assistant for better reading Kurrent
In German Wikipedia
* (letter ''ß'') * handwriting * handwriting {{Authority control Blackletter German orthography Handwriting script Western calligraphy