Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Neue Kanzlerin

Some of the participants in this blog are familiar with Germany. I know you've been wondering how to address the new Chancellor, should you happen to meet her. Fortunately the Deutschland Nachrichten newsletter has considered the problem and offers the following suggestions:

WIE SPRICHT MAN ANGELA MERKEL KORREKT AN?

Der Ratgeber des Protokolls Inland der Bundesregierung empfiehlt als Anrede "Frau Bundeskanzlerin". Eine offizielle Regel ist das zwar nicht. Stilexperten betonen aber, dass schon die Höflichkeit die weibliche Form gebiete. Die korrekte Anrede in einem Brief an die künftige Kanzlerin lautet: "Sehr geehrte Frau Bundeskanzlerin", beziehungsweise für den internationalen Schriftverkehr "Ihrer Exzellenz der Bundeskanzlerin der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Frau Dr. Angela Merkel".

Since we might write her from our own country, I would suggest using that last formula.

1 Comments:

Blogger Elizabeth said...

I love it! Would "President" even need to be feminized when the time comes over here? I was just thinking about the media's funny practice of referring to the two pres. bushes as "pere" and "fils" and how great it would be in the event that we'd have two President Clintons who could be "homme" and "femme".

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