Robert Winterstetter drums on the Internet for his dialect: The 33-year-old runs several projects that deal with language and culture in Bavaria.
A walk in the woods.
Steinhöring –
From the chest of Robert Wetterstetter looks self-confident like the revolutionary Che Guevara, the Bavarian King Ludwig II, framed by white and blue diamonds.
“Che Bavaria” is underneath.
For the Steinhoeringer, being a Bavarian is a central aspect of his identity.
Under the brand "Boarischkult" he drums on the Internet for Bavarian and Bavarian - for the local language and culture.
Already thousands of supporters on Instagram
On the social media platform Instagram, his contributions in dialect have attracted around 7,000 supporters.
For example, the 33-year-old thinks of “Neibo-Aryan” terms for ubiquitous Anglicisms with a wink.
The smartphone becomes the “Gscheidkastl”.
The tattoo becomes “Nodlg smear”.
One is tempted to call him a boar influencer if he hadn't thought of the term "Scheibnsuchtlmessiah" for such - a person who gathers many screen addicts around him.
"It's not about my self-portrayal, it's about the content," says Wetterstetter.
The autumn leaves are crunching under his sneakers (“Santlschuah”) on the forest path he is walking along.
The Woid, also a topic for him, which is why the meeting with the Ebersberger Zeitung takes place in the Ebersberger Forest.
"You can let your thoughts flow freely here," says the Boarisch author as he marches between beech, spruce and chestnut trees.
Romanticism understood this well in literature, and idealism in philosophy: "Get out of everyday life, into nature," he needs to think about.
Wetterstetter: "The screen often blocks those who look into it"
And then Robert Wetterstetter says a rather strange sentence for someone who works full-time as an IT consultant and wears the Bavarian colors on the Internet as a hobby: "I'm not that much of a fan of digitization." the convenience of connectivity and accessibility.
On the other hand, the screen tends to block whoever looks into it.
“Digital detox” is what the Anglo-Saxon calls a break for the brain from media overstimulation.
Weterstetter came up with “brain white” as a Bavarian equivalent.
The next project is a collection of mountain poems
The new family father is part of the gardening club, likes to go to the mountains and has started a boxing division at TSV Steinhöring (we reported).
If he writes poetry in dialect – he even intends to publish a small volume of mountain poetry – then he likes to write it by hand in his little notebook.
Here Robert Wetterstetter writes poetry and about culture, media and language.
There you can also find references to his podcast and his Instagram presence.
But his latest project is digital again, even if it bears the natural title "Im Woid": Together with the author and local poet Hofer from Niedergeislbach (Erding district), he has started a podcast.
On the Internet you can listen to the two of them discussing topics ranging from beer to literature to digitization in episodes lasting a good 25 minutes - perhaps "Bandlratsch" would be the appropriate dialect translation for the recorded conversations.
It's called "Im Woid" because the conversations in the Ebersberger Forest are recorded, clearly recognizable by the chirping of birds in the background.
"There is a lot of inspiration," says the Steinhöringer about the exchange, which always includes a central topic, but no script and no extensive research.
It's more about personal anecdotes, opinions, ideas.
“Most of the time we let it flow.
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