Corner stand Nante

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Berlin corner stand , drawing by Theodor Hosemann , 1833

The corner man Nante , actually Ferdinand Strumpf (* 1803; †?), Was a Berlin service man with the police license number 22 (noted on a brass license plate that was worn around the arm). Nante was located on the corner of Königstrasse and Neue Friedrichstrasse - not far from the Eulner distillation, where he used to stop. Waiting for odd jobs on the street corner, he commented on what was happening around him with a joke that made him the Berlin original .

Nante found his first literary processing in Karl von Holtei's bourgeois drama Ein Trauerspiel in Berlin (first performance in 1832, first printed in 1838). This play with the figure of the woodcutter Nante was not well received by the public.

To this day, he only achieved fame through Friedrich Beckmann's popular play, Eckensteher Nante , which was premiered in 1833 in the Königsstädtisches Theater with Beckmann himself in the role of Nante.

In numerous humorous sheets and booklets, Adolf Glaßbrenner and his imitators such as Albert Hopf (who, together with the added figure Brenneke's adventure in the March Revolution ) made Nante the epitome of Berlin folk humor.

The so-called Nante song in particular caused a sensation:

“I have the best life after all,
I can't complain,
the wind whistles through my sleeve hole,
I want to put it off.
In the morning, when I'm starving,
eat a butter sandwich,
I like the caraway seeds
from my full bottle. "

- First stanza of the couplet at the end of Beckmann's corner stand Nante during interrogation

Nante put an end to his life himself in the zoo, which he is said to have announced beforehand with the usual cheekiness:

“In the zoo, oh how scary,
Nante hung himself up.
In the zoo, oh how sad,
his résumé ended.
Poor men and police officers,
with the rescue medal,
and other good Christians
who came marching up.
They cut him from the tree,
he opened the ooys
and came out of his dream
and said in horror:
'Alljütijer, have mercy,
my God, what am I seeing here?
In heaven are also poor people?
It's all over with me. '"

As a funny person, the fictional character Nante is a counterpart to Wiener Staberl .

literature

  • Corner stand literature. A humorous genre of text in Biedermeier and Vormärz. With e. Nachw. Ue bibliography ed. by Olaf Briese. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verl. 2013. (Aisthesis Archive; Vol. 13.) ISBN 978-3-89528-961-3 (comprehensive documentation of historical Nante texts.)
  • Gerhard Flügge: Berlin originals (Nante) in the category "Berliner ABC", "Berliner Zeitung", 1971
  • Friedrich Beckmann : The corner stand Nante under interrogation. Funny scene . Berlin: Rückerer, 1833

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Remarks

  1. ↑ "B [eckmann] became known as the author of the farce Der Eckensteher Nante im Verhör (Bln. 1833), which was played nationwide and often reissued ( 49 1880). He received the suggestion for this from Karl von Holteis A tragedy in Berlin ( 1832), in which he embodied the role of the wood chopper Nante, and through the Eckensteher (1832) from the political-satirical series of penny magazines by Adolf Glaßbrenner, a friend of his, Berlin as it is - and drinks . " (Wolfgang Weismantel: Beckmann, Friedrich . In: Walther Killy : Literaturlexikon Vol. 1, p. 389).
  2. ↑ Cf. Humor is when one laughs anyway - With Nante and Brenneke through the March Revolution .
  3. ↑ also in Glaßbrenner's Ächter Eckensteher Nante ( Buntes Berlin , No. 5, 1938, 10 ff.); Cf. Lukas Richter: Die Berliner Gassenhauer . Münster 2004, p. 425 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ A larger version can be found in Hoffmann von Fallersleben
personal data
SURNAME Corner stand Nante
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stocking, Ferdinand (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Berlin service man and original
DATE OF BIRTH 1803
DATE OF DEATH after 1833