qepHom Saarbrücken

The qepHom in Saarbrücken is a qepHom happening each year in November since 2002, where Klingonists from entire Europe and beyond gather to speak the Klingon language. The Klingon spelling for Saarbrücken is Sarbruqen. (1)

Background

Since the number of Klingon speakers in Europe is too small for a weekly or monthly meeting, Klingonist Lieven L. Litaer has set up this all-weekend annual qepHom (2).

Participants

In the first years, the Klingon meeting in Germany usually had about 20 to 25 Klingonists, mostly from Europe although there have also been visitors from Canada and the USA. After 2011, numbers have increased and today, there is a limit of attendees set at 70, due to organization reasons. European members come from countries like Sweden, Romania and Poland. As most of the Klingonists are from Germany, the main teaching language is German, but some lessons and games are done in English. A major part of the participants are Star Trek fans, but there are also many students who focus only on the language(3).

Schedule

The meeting starts on Thursday and ends on Sunday. Because of the different arrival times of the participants, there is no official schedule on the first day, but Klingonists use that spare time to talk about Klingon. During the meeting there are several lectures and games to learn Klingon for the beginners(4) while the advanced speakers chat in Klingon by themselves in separate groups.

At the final evening, there is a traditional party where some of the participants enjoy dressing up as Klingons.

Past qepHommey

#	year	motto	notes
1	2002	-	-
2	2003	-	-
3	2004	Do is immer ebbes los	-
4	2005	-	-
5	2006	Nummer 5 lebt!	-
6	2007	Lernst du noch oder sprichst du schon?	-
7	2008	-	new words qepHom 2008
8	2009	qepHom 8 - Die Wörterschlacht	new words qepHom 2009
9	2010	qepHom Hut	new words qepHom 2010
10	2011	Das Jubiläum	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2011
11	2012	Alarm für qepHom 11	new words qepHom 2012
12	2013	qepHom wa'maH cha'	new words qepHom 2013
13	2014	das 13te qepHom	new words qepHom 2014
14	2015	das Halloween-qepHom	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2015
15	2016	qep15Hom	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2016
16	2017	Es kann nur einen geben	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2017
17	2018	ghojchu' tIq neH	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2018
18	2019	Agents of Q.E.P.H.O.M.	visited by Marc Okrand, new words qepHom 2019
19	2020	-	Meeting has been cancelled due to covid-19-pandemic
20	2021	?	?