European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page Brani Uuk modern living by David iams staff despite the Opportunity to name children such teutonic mouthfuls Asru and the most popular names in Germany last year were Chris Tian and Michael for and Stefanie and Sandra for says a professor at Heidelberg in a study admittedly less picturesque than that of Margaret the englishwoman who deter mines the most popular British names each year by checking birth announcements in the London willed Sei Bloke concludes that German name preferences vary according to that there is a ten Dency toward French and slavic names but thai in the last 20 years the most Papular names have remained virtually a professor of bases his findings on the several thousand births recorded annually in Freiburg and As Well As on less regular from a Hal dozen other German with no official records kept on a nationwide Sei Bloke has become an informal arbiter of German names since he came to West Germany from Leipzig in East Germany 20 years since under the sponsorship of the society for German speech in be has published Sev eral editions of the Book Vor Natunen now the Stan Dard guide for naming German like regulations governing the  of lint while americans can legally name their children anything from encyclopedia Britannica to Jameson and according to newspaper accounts and spell Grace Grayce or Ulysses uly As two of the Joneses in the Manhattan phone Book germans can not name their children alter geographical title of nobility or common in a family was denied its application to name a daughter Princess these prohibitions Are based on regulations for German registrars offices which forbid As a fore name any designation not in itself a forename and stipulate that boys must have names and Girts must have foreigners in Germany Are exempt from these Selb Lckes Book As Well As a lot of his spare time is devoted to determining which name shave a Legal existence and which sex can use he has four car file cabinets of names that have been accepted in countries from Turkey to Finland and gels regular queries about the acceptability of a certain name and its intended someone recently wanted to name a chid a perfectly acceptable Irish Feibicke said in an interview last Only the child was a on the other a Parent wanted to name his boy Jasmine found that acceptable for a boy in the Mala differences in German name pref Ducke Are in Northern Germany More names arc scandinavian and Low such As car ten and in the which is predominantly children tend to be named alter like Joseph and As in other German girls names tend to be trendier than boys with the French Nicole and the slavic Short far the russian gaining Feibicke attributes a loss in popularity of the old German names in part to a reaction against the nazi ens obsession with German that has not stopped him from including them among the names listed in the 1977 edition of As Well As their derivation and in Many cases the puzzling abbreviations which so Many germans go thus the first name shared by Federal Chancellor Schmidt and opposition Leader is derived from the old High German Helm guard and As a prefix Helm produces such unmistakably German monikers As and Helmbrecht As a it generates another including go Helm and Wil and Wald Are fairly familiar words which can be combined with themselves and a Host of similar roots building lock fashion to make German but there Are others that evoke Ger Many misty he id from the old High German meaning struggle is part of More than so names including Brunn hid and Hildegard Bert from meaning generates More than in fore and including Brecki Berthold Bright ruler and Engelbert Bright by the Means Strong Gudrun Battle strike lord of the wig mighty famous and Peoples just As mystifying to a no German As these gothic Are the Short particularly of double Klaus for Hans for Johann May seem pretty Hanna for and Barbel for Barbara less Ulli for frit for Friedrich and Heinz for Heinrich take a Little More but not As much As the bavarian character whose name is a shortened form of lotto is Short for Lasc for Elizabeth to Gether they produce a popular compound ditto Hannclore from Johanna and and believe it or according to that sturdy English name Alice is Short for the old High German Noble whence also out of ibis welter of possibilities How do Ger mans pick a first name Feibicke finds fewer children named after parents or except among the and Institute where of the children were named after a another stud found in of the mothers questioned picked a Childs name be cause another child they knew had whose own first name Means wish for has a corollary to that the been getting a Tot of queries about swedish he Ever since Astrid Lindgren childrens books became the Good ship duty free thousands of elderly German shoppers Brave biting winds and seasickness to take advantage of sol supermarkets where everything from Bookelo butter Sells at Rock Bottom that where 1 do my weekly Itury Earold woman at travel Tunde As she left the Baltic be of the Many ships that carry on no excursions into the Baltic and North e out of the Crews open shops Selling a perfume my toys All tax and 7 Shodder can bring a total of about Worth of r or other items Back into give her As she struggled Down the gangplank Inder a Load of its very most of the Butler a Matt As Bey Are pop Darly make pert Lectory Colli in scandinavian Narbors to satisfy Legal but Ibe purpose of the Erutan is Ducourt they want their goods and then Back to trave Munde As soon As said Holger a former sea Captain who works As an inspector for company that operates three butter cruise ticket prices Are nominal under 11 Tor pensioners and stoppers can save about a third on food the which fears the cruises undermine its food Price recently announced Sharp cutbacks in the amount of food that can be bought on but shop pers still save during the Brief summer season and Ger mans of All Ages crowd aboard he in the most of the passengers Are retired people who can afford to spend hours on the Fucks three ships leave the Baltic port of trave Munde about and steam some 60 Miles to the danish Harbor at once in the danish a Crew Man tosses a rope to a who tosses 11 Back to the the vessel then turns around and Heads Back for time in a flyby leu than two no one common Market Rales say we have to go to a said we cant Jutt sail out to sea and come u we we won have to be out eight and Ibe passengers dont want that the Pride of Fucks Fleet is the Baltic during the tourist the Baltic Star carries More than passengers per Day on the five hour roundtrip to in the the ship carries about half that on a recent Winter some passengers arrived on a dozen chartered buses from Han Over and one elderly Man said he and his wife paid one Mark about 45r for a combination ticket mat included bus fare from 120 Miles and the Price of the the ticket Price was less than bus Tare to his neighbourhood he each passenger was issued a ration card so Derks could make sure no one purchased More than could be brought into Germany duty selections included a Pound of butter for com pared with at a local shop Pound of prime beef filet for compared with on Shore and a quart of Bourbon for a savings of almost h once bought their they can Wile away their time in the restaurant and Bam or by playing the Slot a