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Experience Report SoLiLL Project
 

Horst Schwiebert, ZAWiW, University of Ulm

We have started in our group to collect information on bread customs and festivals in Europe and have gathered quite a lot of materials. But it did not come to evaluation as Carmen Stadelhofer asked us to take part in the new SoLiLL project. We have plunged into work without knowing what dimensions this would take. There were no concrete instructions concerning the subject matter and working approach. First we had developed a questionnaire, to which an older questionnaire served as a model. The older questionnaire was extended and adjusted on the basis of a proposal for a questionnaire from Italy. Then it went to Czech Republic, where it was reworked further. Before the final version was finished, the questionnaire was improved by both countries several times.

Interviewing friends and acquaintances was a lot of fun, and we could collect a lot of verbal quotes. The analysis of our 40-question questionnaire had meant a lot of hard work, as we had to identify the answer categories first and then allocate all answers to them. We were lucky to have in our group our colleague and computer freak Erich Regula, who with the aid of computer was able to create an overview of the results and present them in the way of expressive colourful diagrams.

We were really thrilled about this and forgot soon all the work and time that we invested in the project. And so the joint work on this project with our partners abroad was worthwhile.