The fuss over the lyrics of the Styrian national anthem recently caused a serious diplomatic dispute between Graz and Laibach. Now two music greats are making people sit up and take notice with a new suggestion.
When the Graz bookseller and writer Jakob Dirnböck wrote down the lines of the Dachstein song in 1844, he probably did not think that his text, which was declared a national anthem in 1929, would cause such a diplomatic stir 181 years later. Of course, the current state and national borders would certainly surprise the author. Because the “Wendenland at the bottom of the Sav” and also the Rebenland in the Drav valley are no longer part of “his” Styrian land.
Source: Krone
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