Barkers
As Barker are traders on markets referred to using the human voice hawking their wares audible. This counts as verbal advertising for professional and commercial purposes.
The meaning of the name was originally a negative one. The barker played the role of the quack or the charlatan in the markets of the Middle Ages and early modern times . He was described as:
- “1) After-doctor, who at fairs or at public assemblies offers medicines for sale from a display stand, while praising their effectiveness; usually accompanied by a buffoon who attracts the crowd; now removed by the Medicinal Police; 2) so vw Charlatan. "
It is true that the German language has retained the term “ market screeching” as pejorative, because it is intrusive and annoying, to the present day, but the market screeching plays an accepted role at many weekly markets. Certain barkers have made a name for themselves in the marketplace. The Leipzig city original Oscar Seifert (1861–1932) was one of the well-known Saxon barkers in the 20th century.
In some regions, market screeching competitions have achieved the status of an attraction, so Wurst-Achim was German champion in 2013.
George Humphrey : Barkers, National Portrait Gallery, London, 17th century
Eel seller at the Hamburg fish market
Eel quay at the Altona fish market
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Marktschreier
- ↑ http://www.duden.de/definition/marktschreierisch
Web links
- Purchase and street calls , in: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
- http://www.stenvorde.de/stenv_marktschreier_gilde.html