(literally, ''strong

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'', albeit with ''ck'' for ''k'', as dictated by the conventions of the variant) is an imagined language created by Matthias Koeppel, a German painter and poet and self-proclaimed ''Sprachkünstler'' (artist of language). It exaggerates stereotypical (mostly phonetic and orthographic) traits of older stages of German and some modern (especially

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) dialects in an impressionistic way, rather than in a rigorously systematic fashion. Matthias Koeppel started to write humorous poems in "Starckdeutsch" in 1972. A collection of them was published as in 1981.

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Two poems by Matthias Koeppel, with their standard German translations
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