The Einheitslieder der deutschen Bistümer (1947) - from großdeutsch project to instrument of Integration after war and displacement

当“Einheitslieder der deutschen Bistümer”（电子赞美诗）于1947年作为正版出版时，它为德国的天主教徒提供了74首赞美诗的共同标准佳能。这是迈向德国天主教教区共同赞美诗的重要的第一步。1975年，它在标准赞美诗《Gotteslob》中结出了果实。世纪初，德国各教区几乎没有赞美诗作为歌曲曲目的共同传统，它们的歌词和曲调差异很大。从20世纪30年代中期开始，由于大量的国内移民（赖希劳工服务，NS工业化项目等），这种缺乏变得特别成问题。以及战争的情况（来自不同教区的士兵的实地服务）。围绕着电子赞美诗语料库问题的讨论揭示了不同的意见：在礼仪更新之后的“Jugendkreise”运动为会众歌曲的更新，而传统的声音选择了众所周知的歌曲为“实际的田园原因”。然而，另一些人则要求建立一个“帝国之声”（Reichsliederkanon），以加强德意志民族认同。这种超教区赞美诗的批评者认为，关于公理赞美诗天主教的身份是一个高度区域化的性质，因此，任何试图标准化将产生负面影响。从1940年起，各种建议被起草。在富尔达举行的德国主教会议讨论了这个问题，并委托特里尔主教建立一个电子赞美诗语料库。他把这项任务交给了一个专家委员会，该委员会由辅助主教Metzroth召集，其中包括来自被吞并的奥地利的3名代表。早在1943年，该委员会提出了一个名单的赞美诗。1944年，该项目的工作因战争而中断。1947年，电子赞美诗最终获得批准。该项目的目的是在一个扩充的原始版本中介绍电子赞美诗语料库的起源，该版本基于召集人、助理主教Metzroth（特里尔教区档案）的全面收集，以及来自其他档案的材料，这些材料揭示了史前史以及某些教区和专员的职位。此外，该版本还考虑了当代杂志的贡献，这些杂志将被列入全面的参考书目中。然后，重点将转向1947年电子赞美诗的接收历史和对1975年和2013年“Gotteslob”的影响（公共部分和教区附录）。

When the “Einheitslieder der deutschen Bistümer” (E-hymns) were published as an authentic edition in 1947, it provided Germany's Catholics with a common standard canon of 74 hymns. This was a significant first step towards a common hymnal of the German Catholic dioceses. In 1975 it came to fruition in the standard hymnal “Gotteslob”. At the beginning of the 20th century, the German dioceses had hardly any shared tradition of hymns as the repertoire of songs, their lyrics and tunes differed enormously. This lack became especially problematic from the mid-1930s onwards due to significant internal migration (Reich Labor Service, NS industrialization projects, etc.) as well as the situation of war (field services of soldiers from different dioceses). Discussions surrounding the question of a corpus of E-hymns revealed different opinions: The “Jugendkreise” in the wake of the Liturgical Renewal campaigned for a renewal of congregational song whereas traditional voices opted for the well-known songs for “practical-pastoral reasons”. Others, however, demanded a “Reichsliederkanon” with a view to strengthening German national identity. Critics of such a supra-diocesan hymnal argued that regarding congregational hymns Catholic identity was of a highly regionalized nature and that therefore any attempts at standardizing would have a negative impact.From ca. 1940 onwards various suggestions were drafted. The German Bishops' Conference in Fulda took up the issue and commissioned the bishop of Trier to set up a corpus of E-hymns. He assigned this task to an expert commission, which was convened by the auxiliary bishop Metzroth, and included 3 delegates from annexed Austria. Already in 1943 this commission presented a list of hymns. In 1944 work on this project was interrupted by the war. The E-hymns were then definitively approved in 1947. They proved to be an important instrument to integrate the catholic expellees into their new dioceses.The project aims to a presentation of the genesis of the E-hymn corpus within an augmented source edition based on the comprehensive collection of the convener, auxiliary bishop Metzroth (diocesan archive of Trier) and material from further archives that reveals the pre-history as well as the positions of certain dioceses and commissioners. Furthermore, the edition considers contributions from contemporary magazines that will be listed in a comprehensive bibliography. The focus will then turn to the reception history and impact of the 1947 E-hymns on the “Gotteslob” of 1975 and 2013 (common part and diocesan appendices).