Chamber of Commerce launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch." which means "We can [do] everything. Except [speak] Standard German" to boost Swabian pride for their dialect and industrial achievements. However, it failed to impress Northern Germans and neighboring Baden. Dominik Kuhn (Dodokay) became famous in Germany with Swabian fandub videos, dubbing among others Barack Obama with German dialect vocals and revised text. In the German dubbing of the 2001 movie Monsters Inc., the Abominable Snowman, played by John Ratzenberger in the original English version and Walter von Hauff in the German version, speaks in the Swabian dialect. Swabian dialect writers Sebastian Sailer (1714–1777) August Lämmle (de) (1876-1962) Josef Eberle (as Sebastian Blau) (de) (1901-1986) Thaddäus Troll (1914–1980) Hellmut G. Haasis (born 1942) Peter Schlack (de) (born 1943) Gerhard Raff (born 1946) See also Muss i denn Notes References Literature External links Articles in Swabian on the Alemannic/Swiss German edition of Wikipedia The Swabian-English dictionary Die Welt auf Schwäbisch - Best of Obama - Vollversammlung der Eigentümer Wilhelmstr. 48 "Harald Schmidt Sprachkurs Schwäbisch" Parody Sprecherdemo: Dialekt schwäbisch Helen Lutz Swabian German language Languages of Germany German dialects