FOLK LITERATURE RECORDED FROM ROMANIANS IN PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMPS IN GERMANY BETWEEN 1916-1918.

Founded in 1909 by W. Doegen in Berlin, the Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) was enriched during the First World War with valuable texts and folk songs recorded on discs and wax cylinders or recorded on paper. The research took place in 32 of the 175 prisoner-of-war camps of the Allied Powers, which covered the territory of Germany at that time. The prisoners came from European, Asian, African countries and the United States of America, and the research was carried out by a team of 50 German specialists in the languages spoken in those countries. Among them are three camps with prisoners from the Kingdom of Romania and from Bessarabia located in the perimeter of the cities of Chemnitz, Mannheim and Lamsdorf. The study presents some of the results obtained by the professors M. Friedwagner and H. Urtel in the research of the Romanian prisoners in those camps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]