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The Songs
Hundreds of song sheets with dialect text, music facsimile and audio sample — searchable by title, year and theme.
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Lieder · Mundart · Erzgebirge
Anton Günther
Lieder · Mundart · Erzgebirge
Anton Günther
Lieder · Mundart · Erzgebirge
Folk poet of the Ore Mountains · 1876 — 1937
Anton
Günther.
„Deitsch un frei wolln mer sei!“
Song · 1908
His songs in dialect, his footsteps through the Ore Mountains — and for his 150th birthday, a smoking figurine from the Seiffen workshop.
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Songs in the catalogue
Catalogue in progress
84
Places of remembrance
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Dialect entries
I · Biography
Stations 1876 – 1937
Six stations — from his birthplace to his grave in Boží Dar.
Anton Günther was a folk poet, lithographer and publisher in one. In the dialect of his homeland — Erzgebirgisch — he wrote, printed and distributed hundreds of songs as hand-printed postcards, which in their millions shaped the cultural memory of an entire region. To this day his texts are considered the soul of the Ore Mountains.
1876
Birth
5 June 1876: Anton Günther is born in Boží Dar (Gottesgab) — a small mountain town in the Bohemian Ore Mountains at over 1,000 m altitude, the highest town in Central Europe. The harsh climate, the mining tradition and the close-knit community shape his entire worldview.
II · Three paths through his work
Songs, places, dialect — three paths to Anton Günther.
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In his footsteps
Map, hiking trails and memorial sites between Boží Dar, Oberwiesenthal and the Fichtelberg.
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The Dialect
Erzgebirge dialect words from his songs — with phonetic transcription, explanation and example line from the work. Searchable by term or meaning.
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III · Anniversary Year · 2026
Concerts and Events.
Concerts, readings and Hutzenabende for Anton Günther's 150th birthday — in the Ore Mountains, Prague and far beyond.
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IV · Manufactory · Edition 2026
A smoking figurine
for his 150th birthday.
In the workshop of Eva Beyer in Seiffen, a smoking figurine of native wood is being made for the anniversary — turned, glued, sanded, painted, lacquered. Each piece is unique.