Reading Sütterlinschrift And Kurrent.

ChrisKelly · December 2

A tribute to Rick (Research) Lundström, who could read, write and translate these scripts as easily as he could block print in English.

http://www.kaiserscross.com/60401/481643.html

I have included some period examples from around the world-wide-web.

Sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sütterlin

http://bowfinprintworks.com/Script10Pg5.html

Edited December 2 by ChrisKelly

Bernd_W · December 2

I had some mediocre results when using google Lens. You upload the picture here:

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I you combine it with your Brain and charts like this down below and take a little bit of time, you can read a lot of Stuff.

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Whats IMO hard, are signatures and some writings where they mixed Sütterlin and Kurrent. IMO mostly written like this by the generation who was <= 30 years at the end of WW1

Edited December 2 by Bernd_W

VtwinVince · December 2

Thanks for this, I'm in the process of trying to get more familiar with Suetterlin, as I have a small mountain of material in my archives which I can't read right now.

arb · December 2

Many years ago, my wife bought me a great little book, "Deutsche Schreibschrift - Lesen und Scheiben lernen" by Harald Süß. It is still available for only 15 Euros. see link below.

Süß, Deutsche Schreibschrift (ÜB) - Harald Süß | Droemer Knaur

I credit this for giving me the head start I needed to learn to read a variety of hand writing forms. I recommend to anyone looking to improve their ability to read pre-1945 documents.