A niece of my granny still reads Sütterlin. She translated many letters & postcards which my great grandmother (who lived in Vienna) wrote to my grandmother (who lived from her 11th age on in the Netherlands).
Sütterlinschrift (Sütterlin script), or Sütterlin for short, is the last widely used form of the old German blackletter handwriting (Deutsche Kurrentschrift). In Germany, the old German cursive script developed in the 16th century replacing the Gothic handwriting at the same time that bookletters developed into the Fraktur typeface. Some people refer to all old German handwriting scripts as Sütterlin, although variants of the Kurrent script were in use centuries before graphic artist Ludwig Sütterlin (1865–1917) was born. The word Sütterlin is nowadays often used to refer to all varieties of Old German handwriting although this specific script was only taught in German schools from 1935 to 1941.
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