List of winged words / U
Always practice faithfulness and honesty!
This request to remain honest at all times forms the opening line of the poem Der alten Landmann to his son by Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty :
- "Always practice faithfulness and honesty
up to your cold grave,
And don't deviate a finger
from God's ways."
These lines became popular in connection with the melody of Papageno A Girl or Female from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute .
The carillon of the Potsdam Garrison Church played from 1797, when Friedrich Wilhelm III took office. , At the full hour praise the Lord, the mighty King of Honor and at the half hour practice always faithfulness and honesty , a symbol of Prussian moral virtue . The carillon fell during the air raid on Potsdam on the night of April 14th to 15th, 1945. The fact that before, without any human intervention, it had played over and over again, faithfully and honestly , belongs to the realm of legend, because the melodies changed on the drum that controls the bells. On April 14, 1991, the Bundeswehr set up a replica of the carillon, donated privately in 1987, in the immediate vicinity of the old location, which plays both songs again.
When one of the towers collapsed during the construction of the garrison church on Goetheplatz in Hanover in 1893 due to inadequate foundations, supporters of the Guelph Party mocked that a schoolboy always whistled faithfulness and honesty as he passed - the tower could not cope with that.
Above all summits there is peace
So begins the poem Wanderer's Night Song by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which he wrote in 1780 in pencil on the wooden wall of a hunting lodge on Kickelhahn in Ilmenau. However, when it was first published in 1815 under an earlier poem of the same title, it was headed "A Same". Wanderer's night song is one of his most famous poems.
Run over your mouth
Someone snub or: someone " on your tongue go " is a phrase meaning:
- Don't let someone finish, interrupt
- cut someone off
- talk in between
- violently contradict
Above the clouds
Above the clouds is the most famous song by Reinhard Mey . It dates from 1974 and describes the longing of the singer who stands on an airfield and watches a plane take off. The refrain is especially famous:
- “Above the clouds, freedom must be limitless.
All fears, all worries, they say, remained
hidden underneath and then
dignity, what seems big and important to us,
suddenly void and small. "
In the Berliner Morgenpost , Uwe Sauerwein explains that “freedom can be limitless even under the clouds” and lets Mey talk about his happy life.
About the Wupper
The / that has (gone) over the Wupper is an all-German colloquial expression today for the fact that someone or something has been lost or lost. The phrase goes back to the fact that in the 17th and 18th centuries, young men from the to Prussia belonging county of Mark , who would not find in the Prussian army, especially at the old Heckinghauser toll bridge over the river and through the Border into the Duchy of Berg .
About the gradual creation of thoughts while speaking.
This is the title of an essay by Heinrich von Kleist . It means that you should clarify your initially confused ideas by presenting them to someone.
Kleist recommends discussing difficult questions with someone to talk to. He is concerned with the need to become clearer about a situation at the moment of talking about it: when the speaker arranges his thoughts in order to explain his point of view, he becomes more conscious of things.
Today the quote is used to express that one often only develops one's thoughts while speaking.
Wonderland is everywhere.
The writer Joachim Ringelnatz makes this observation in his bizarre poem Everywhere :
- “Wonderland is everywhere.
There is life everywhere.
With my aunt in the stocking strap
like somewhere next to it. "
The garter is to prevent in its original form, a strip of cloth that was tied to a stocking around the leg to these from sliding. Garters, like suspenders (suspenders), were originally worn by both sexes.
The quote Everywhere is Wonderland can be understood as an invitation to recognize something special in everyday things.
Ubi sunt?
The question Ubi sunt (Latin: “Where are they?”, Complete: “Ubi sunt qui ante nos in mundo fuere?” - “Where are they (got to) who were in the world before us?”) Is a topos in the sermon and poetry of the Middle Ages, which serves to remind the reader or listener of the transience of everything earthly with examples of past power or beauty and to refer him to the hereafter as the destiny of man, but sometimes also with nostalgic glorification of the Connects past and time-critical lament about the present.
In the Christian Middle Ages, the topos represents a variant of the Judeo-Christian Vanitas motif and can already be found in the biblical book Baruch (Bar 3, 16–19):
| Latin Bible text of the Vulgate : | Literally translated from the Vulgate: |
|---|---|
| ubi sunt principes gentium et qui dominantur super bestias quae sunt super terram | Where are the rulers of the peoples who themselves rule the animals of the earth |
A well-known example is the student song Gaudeamus igitur , which already contained a stanza on this topic in its oldest known version or preliminary stage from the 13th century.
Ultima ratio
See also Ultima Ratio by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben
See also Ultima Ratio by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To quarrel about the emperor's beard
The phrase "arguing about the emperor's beard" is used to express that it is about irrelevant things that may not even be decided. Such a dispute actually broke out in AD 363, when Emperor Julian the Apostate stopped on the way to his Persian campaign in Antioch on the Orontes and the easy-going residents wrote mocking verses at the serious emperor with his philosopher's beard. Julian responded with a philosophically inspired satire ( Misopogon : Barthasser ), one of the few surviving self-testimonies of an emperor after Marcus Aurelius .
However, the Latin phrase "rixari de lana caprina" ("argue about goat's wool") was already in use in the second decade before Christianity to denote senseless disputes about trivialities. This is the meaning of the hexameter "alter rixatur de lana saepe caprina" ("someone else is constantly fighting over goat's wool") in the first book of the Horazi Epistles . The saying goes back to the vagueness of the term lana ( wool ), which left room for differences of opinion as to whether the coat of the sheep alone or that of other animals or even plant material could be called that; The Corpus iuris civilis also included all sorts of clarifying statements by Ulpian in his 32nd book De legatis et fideicommissis . In all likelihood, the German translation of lana caprina in goat's hair or goat 's beard has changed over time to Kaiser's beard because of the similarity of sounds , without changing the meaning of the phrase. Only the original connections were forgotten.
In Emanuel Geibel's poem Von des Kaisers Bart , three young men argue in the tavern about whether the beard of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa was brown, black or white, and so they end up attacking each other with sabers. The poem ends with the admonition:
Quarrel when you sit crying,
Not about the emperor's beard!
To get back to said mutton.
This phrase has become naturalized from the French "revenons à nos moutons" (let's get back to our sheep!) By August von Kotzebue's comedy Die deutscher Kleinstädter from 1802:
- mayor
- "To come back to said mutton -"
- Olmers
- “O Lord Mayor! and if you promise me all the sheep from all over Tibet, now I have a wish that is closer to my heart. "
- mayor
- "So? So?"
- Olmers
- "I love your Mademoisell daughter."
- mayor
- "Eh, ei."
The idiom seems to have arisen from a swan told by the French Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle in the introduction to the life of the poet Thomas Corneille . In it, a draper is suing his shepherd for allegedly embezzling sheep. Instead of answering the judge about it, however, he speaks of the handkerchief that a man who he believed he saw in the courtroom had betrayed him.
The idiom is used when someone is talking about anything, except the subject he is supposed to be talking about.
dealing with people
This phrase goes back to the famous work On Dealing with People by the writer Baron Adolph Knigge , published in 1788 . In this enlightening pamphlet, Knigge gave his contemporaries rules for how to deal with one another properly. A book of rules of conduct is now called “etiquette”.
In the first chapter with the heading General remarks and regulations on dealing with people , Knigge writes:
- "Each person is only as important in this world as what he makes himself ... This experience makes the cheeky half-scholar so bold as to decide about things of which he has read or heard the first word no earlier than an hour before, but to decide in such a way that even the modest writer present does not dare to contradict, nor to ask questions that could throw the babbler 's vehicle on dry land. "
Revaluation of all values
This expression for a new evaluation of previous values comes from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and refers to the replacement of Christian-occidental values by pre-Christian-archaic virtues.
All modernity suffers from decadence . In contrast, a “ revaluation of all values ” is now necessary. How the new values should look, however, is not clearly clear from Nietzsche's work.
Unresolved past
The expression was coined in 1955 at an invitation to a conference of the Evangelical Academy Berlin by the then academy director Erich Müller-Gangloff and in the following period was often used in connection with the subject of National Socialism . In analogy to trauma in an individual , one means when a group or society has not processed a historical experience and the processing of a culpable past has not yet taken place:
- "Argentina's unresolved past"
- "Left Party: Unresolved Past"
- “Terrible lawyers. The unresolved past "
Mostly one understands by this expression the crimes of the national socialism that have been suppressed by a part of the German people .
And so the free is different from the servant.
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In the first volume of Theodor Storm's works, under the heading Proverbs , the first saying is:
- “One of them asks: What comes next?
The other only asks: Is it right?
And so the free differs
from the servant. "
In a sermon on Paul's letter to the Galatians (5: 1-6), the theologian Eberhard Busch takes up Storm's saying and writes:
- “ Be people who“ have the courage to use their own understanding ”! Be mobile, but please do not change the weather! Don't be people who crouch up and kick down! And remember Theodor Storm's saying: 'One asks: What comes afterwards, the other just asks: Is it right, and so the free is different from the servant.' "
The author Josef Tutsch writes on the birthday of the English philosopher John Stuart Mill and the ethics of utilitarianism :
- “It is doubtful whether Theodor Storm ever heard of the English philosophical school of the utilitarians. But he wrote a quatrain that could be directed against this philosophy of usefulness. "
Storm was a supporter of the view of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant , according to which the morally correct should be determined solely on the basis of duty . The English lawyer Jeremy Bentham, however, was of the opinion that the criterion of right and wrong is "the greatest happiness of the greatest number".
And if you're not willing, I'll use force.
"And if you are not willing, I need violence" is the second verse of the penultimate stanza from Goethe's ballad Erlkönig :
I love you, your beautiful figure appeals to me,
and if you are not willing, I need violence!
My father, my father, now he's touching me,
Erlkönig has done me a pain.
It is the Erlkönig's last invitation to the boy in his father's arms to go with him. In the poem, the Erlkönig is a demonic, deadly seducer. Today the quote is used jokingly when one has difficulties with certain movements and thinks that you can only get ahead with violence:
- "And are you not willing ..." ( Thriller by Rebecca Drake)
- "And if you are not willing: Telephone contracts against your will."
And now and then a white elephant.
These words are the key line from Rainer Maria Rilke's poem The Carousel , which describes a circus in the Parisian Jardin du Luxembourg :
- “With a roof and its shadow,
the population
of colorful horses turns for a little while , all from the country that
hesitates for a long time before it goes under.
It is true that some are harnessed to wagons,
but all have courage in their faces;
an angry lion goes with them
and now and then a white elephant. "
The words appear a total of three times in the poem and describe from the perspective of a toddler how the white elephant appears again and again when the carousel is turned. The intervals between the appearance of the "white elephant" are getting shorter and shorter. From this one can conclude that the carousel is turning faster and faster.
The quote today is, for example, the name of a piece of music or the title of a book by Elisabeth Borchers .
And then they left him
And then they left him is a New Testament word from the Bible (Mt 26:56); and there (nn) they left him is used in the sense of and then he didn't know what to do next (with a task) or and then he was at a loss .
And that's just as well!
The Berlin politician Klaus Wowereit confessed to his homosexuality at a special party conference in 2001 when he was nominated as a candidate for the vote of no confidence in Eberhard Diepgen and for the intended new elections with the following words :
- "I'm gay - and that's a good thing, dear comrades."
With this, Wowereit took the wind out of the sails of an emerging issue in some media.
The title of Wowereit's 2007 autobiography is ... and that's a good thing. My life for politics.
The star overwrites an article about Wowereit with the title The “and that's also good” man . The quote has become established in common parlance and is often used:
- "Homosexuality and celebrities: And that's a good thing ...?"
- "I'm an atheist - and that's a good thing."
- "Berlin is broke / And that's a good thing / ...", satirical song by cabaret artist Thomas Pigor
The sentence, however, originally comes from Wowereit's predecessor Klaus Schütz , who was Governing Mayor of Berlin between 1967 and 1977 and once jokingly said about himself:
- "I'm Klaus Schütz, and that's a good thing."
And the shark has teeth.
This line begins Ballad of Mack the Knife from 1928 premiered Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht . The opening song composed by Kurt Weill evokes one of the main themes of the work, namely unscrupulous profiteering and the ruthless exercise of power:
And the shark, he has teeth
and he wears them on his face
and Macheath, he has a knife
but you can't see the knife.
For the planned film adaptation, Brecht added the following well-known closing stanza in 1930, from which the line "You can't see those in the dark" also became a popular phrase:
Because some are in the dark
and the others are in the light.
And you see them in the light
You don't see them in the dark.
And the sky is full of violins.
With these words in the second act of the operetta Der liebe Augustin von Leo Fall, the piano teacher Augustin Hofer raves about a restaurant that he wants to open in Vienna with his adored pupil Princess Helene:
- “And the sky is full of violins,
when the lilacs bloom in the branches
and a blonde treasure, a flattering
cat,” the waltz song hums softly along.
Duiduidioo ... "
It is based on a saying that has been widespread since the 16th century, which probably goes back to paintings in which heaven was animated with angels playing music. Today it is used to express that one is happy and in high spirits. So it is said about new love relationships:
- “At the beginning the sky is full of violins. You swear eternal loyalty. "
The phrase is also popular in journalism when euphoria is the subject of reporting:
- "C-Class premiere: Stuttgart's sky is full of violins."
And the moral of the story'…
The phrase "And the moral of the story" comes from Wilhelm Busch's picture story Das Bad on Saturday evening . In times when bathing was still a luxury, the children were put in the tub together once a week. In this case, there are two boys doing a lot of mischief in the bathtub. The short picture story closes - after the two rascals wreaked havoc in the bathing room - with the conclusion:
- "And the moral of the story ':
Don't bathe' two in one tub."
The playwright Rolf Hochhuth published a complete edition of Busch's works, which he gave the evocative title Und die Moral von der Geschichte . But this quote is also used in other contexts:
- "And the moral of the story ', release dissatisfied customers from their duties."
- "Speeches and the moral of the story '"
- "And the moral of the story: Don't annoy your cleaning lady!"
And the mother looked around the table in silence.
These verses come from the story of Fidgety Philip in the children's book by the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann , which describes how the mother looks in disbelief at the empty table after the fidgeting Philip fell over with his chair and tore off the tablecloth with dishes and food Has:
- "Look! It rocks too wildly until the chair falls backwards;
there is nothing left to hold him;
he reaches for the tablecloth and screams.
But what does it help? Plates, bottles and bread fall at the same time.
Father is in great need and mother looks
around the table in silence . "
And the sun of Homer, see! She smiles to us too.
This is the final verse of Friedrich Schiller's poem The Walk , published in 1795 under the title Elegy . The first part describes the beauty of nature during a morning walk; the second part describes human development. The third part returns to the real environment:
- “The often changing ages nurture the same breast;
Under the same blue, over the same green,
the near generations walk, and the distant generations walk together,
and Homer's sun, behold! she smiles to us too. "
By raising the so-called Homeric Question , Homer's authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey was called into question. As a result, the two epics were created anonymously, such as the Nibelungenlied , and the people can be claimed as the author. However, Schiller turned against this with these verses.
The Biedermeier draftsman Adrian Ludwig Richter made a graphic in 1861, with the title of which he slightly varied the Schiller quote:
- "And the sun of Homer, see it shining on us too."
There are similar images from Karl Ritter , whose four drypoint etchings are titled The Sun of Homers .
In 1990 Joachim Wohlleben wrote a book entitled Die Sonne Homers , the content of which is "Ten Chapters of German Homer Enthusiasm: From Winckelmann to Schliemann".
And inside the chaste housewife rules.
With this quote from Friedrich Schiller's poem Das Lied von der Glocke , the traditional division of roles in marriage is jokingly addressed today. First it says of the man:
- "The man must go out
into hostile life,
must work and strive,
and plant and create ..."
Later then about the woman:
- "And inside reigns
the chaste housewife,
the mother of the children,
And rules wisely
in the domestic circle,
And teaches the girls
And defends the boys,
And agitates the
industrious hands without end , ..."
In 1966, the writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger criticized Schiller's striking language:
- “The author's failure is most strikingly revealed by his language. A glance at the adjectives with which he adorns his no-man's figures is enough. The child is “loved”, the boy “proud”, the virgin “chaste”, the housewife ditto, the wife “dear”, the mother “loyal”, the citizen “calm”. All other provisions seem to be designed to avoid any provision. "
And a fool is waiting for an answer.
This is the final line of the poem Questions by Heinrich Heine , which was published with other poems in the chapter The North Sea, Second Cycle in 1827 both in Travel Pictures, Second Part and in the Book of Songs .
- By the sea, by the desert sea at night, there is
a young man
and makes a fool of himself by asking the waves to solve "the riddle of life" for him. Nature, “indifferent and cold”, remains silent. "And a fool is waiting for an answer."
… and adults as well
The German confectionery manufacturer Haribo has been advertising with the slogan "Haribo makes children happy" since 1935. In 1962 the slogan was supplemented with the addition “and adults as well”. According to a survey by Kabel1 , this is the best-known advertising slogan in Germany.
The slogan has been translated into several languages:
- "Kids and grown-ups love it so / the happy world of Haribo."
- "Haribo, c'est beau la vie / pour les grands et les petits."
- "Dulces sabores para pequeños y mayores."
- "Haribo maakt kinderen blij, volwassenen horen ook daarbij."
And the woods sing forever.
And the forests sing forever (Norwegian: Og bakom synger skogene ) is the title of a novel by the writer Trygve Gulbranssen based on the Icelandic family sagas . This title found wider distribution through the Austrian film adaptation ofthe same name by Paul May in 1959.
The novel takes place around 1800. The subject of the novel is the Björndals, a Norwegian peasant family in northern Norway who live from the forest and the laboriously laid fields.
In connection with the forest dieback , this title was used rather ironically or in connection with the discussion about renewable raw materials - without any reference to the novel.
And lead us not into temptation!
“And do not lead us into temptation” is the sixth request of the Our Father , the second half of which is “but deliver us from evil”.
This quotation from the Bible is taken from the Gospel according to Matthew (6:13) and is occasionally used as a joke when someone might be tempted to do something illegal.
Martin Luther's Small Catechism says:
- “God tries no one, but we ask in this prayer that God will protect and preserve us so that the devil does not deceive us, the world and our own flesh, nor seduce us into disbelief, despair and other great shame and vice. And whether we would be challenged with the fact that we would finally win and keep the victory. "
The last petition of the Our Father raises the important question of whether God wants to tempt people at all. The Bible gives contradicting answers. However, the letter of James clearly states:
- “No one who is tempted should say: I am tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted to do evil, nor does he tempt anyone himself ”(1:13).
Vaya con Dios - And lead us into temptation is a film by the German director Zoltan Spirandelli from 2002, which tells how shortly after the fall of the Wall the penultimate monastery of the fictional Cantorian order was about to fail.
And lead where you don't want to.
The risen Jesus Christ speaks these words to the apostle Simon Peter :
- “Truly, truly I say to you: Since you were younger, you girded yourself and walked wherever you wanted; but when you get old you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you and lead you where you don't want to go. "
The Protestant theologian Helmut Gollwitzer used this quotation from the Bible as the title of the bestseller about his Soviet captivity. In it he describes the agonizing life in the prison camps, but also emphasizes the difference to the German concentration camps:
- "To let us exist as human beings - there is no denying that that was the intention of the Soviet government."
... and I don't feel very well either.
This sentence - often quoted with different intellectuals - was originally written by the American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910), who said the following in 1899 at the Savage Club in London in response to the many eulogies:
- “I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself . "
- “I was concerned because I was named one of the great writers. They have the sad habit of dying out. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, and so is Milton , also Shakespeare , and I'm not very well either. "
And the woman always beckons.
And always attracts women is the German title of the French film Et Dieu… créa la femme (actually: And God created woman ) by Roger Vadim from 1956.
The film tells the story of Juliette, an 18-year-old orphan who wants to experience something with men. The woman in this case is Brigitte Bardot , who through this film became the sex symbol of an era.
But the film title is also quoted in modifications:
- "And inheritance is always an attraction."
- "Iraq: And the oil is always luring."
- "Internet: And the online auction is always attractive."
And there is magic in every beginning.
The quote forms the end of the first set of stanzas from Hermann Hesse's poem stages , the subject of which is the twofold content of each stage of life: farewell and a new beginning in one. It is often quoted at births or foundings and is the title of a Hesse biography by Alois Prinz. The poem begins with the following stanza:
How every blossom wilts and every youth
gives way to old age, every stage of life
blossoms, every wisdom also blossoms and every virtue
at its time and must not last forever.
Only after the second stanza does this quote follow:
And there is a magic inherent in every beginning, which
protects us and which helps us to live.
... and not a bit wise
With the phrase “... and not a bit wise” one likes to joke to point out the advanced age of a person who has still not become wise, but has also remained youthful. The quote goes back to the chanson 60 years and not a bit wise , which the actor Curd Jürgens sang in 1975. The song was composed by Hans Hammerschmid . The refrain is as follows:
- “Sixty years and not a bit wise,
learned nothing from past damage.
Sixty years on the way to becoming an old man
and yet sixty years away. "
In 1976 Curd Jürgens also gave his memoirs the title And not a bit wise . This title is often quoted in modifications:
- "A thousand years and not a bit old" (City of Soest )
- "18 years in prison - and not a bit quiet" ( Mordechai Vanunu )
- "70 and not a bit tired" ( Adriano Celentano )
... and no end.
This expression, which was already in use towards the end of the 18th century, gained further dissemination probably through Goethe's three-part essay Shakespeare and no end , which begins with the following words:
- “ So much has been said about Shakespeare that it seems like there is nothing left to say, and yet that is the quality of the mind, that it stimulates the mind forever. This time I want to look at Shakespeare from more than one side, first as a poet in general, then compared with the old and new, and finally as a real theater poet. "
The first two parts, Shakespeare as a poet in general and Shakespeare as compared with the old and the newest , were written in 1813 and were first published in Cotta's morning paper for educated classes on May 12, 1815. Part III, Shakespeare as a theater poet , was written in 1816, but was not printed for the first time until ten years later in Goethe's own magazine Über Kunst und Altertum (Vol. 5, Issue 3).
- Examples
- "Mortgage crisis and no end"
- "Phishing and no end"
- "Apocalyptic and no end?"
And didn't say a single word.
And said not a single word is the title of a novel by Heinrich Böll . The title of the novel is for the main male character Fred Bogner. At the end of the novel, he recognizes the need to return to his family and give up his previous attitude by vowing: "... one day I will speak."
And yet she is moving.
“And it [the earth] is moving” (Italian: “Eppur si muove”) is said to have murmured Galileo Galilei on his deathbed or when leaving the courtroom. This saying has not been historically proven, but was already spread during his lifetime.
The source for this is probably not the Querelles litteraires des Abbés Augustin Simon (Paris 1761). There it says in French:
- “ Au moment, assure-t-on, qu'il fut mis en libert, le remords le prit. Il baissa les yeux vers la terre et dit, en la frappant du pied: "Cependant elle remue" ("E pur si muove"). "
- “The moment he was released, it is assured, he felt a remorse. He lowered his eyes and said, stamping his foot, 'Nevertheless it moves.' "
The first citation of this saying can be found in Giuseppe Baretti (1719–1789) in his book The Italian Library , published in 1757 . Baretti may have invented the phrase in his anti-church depiction of the scene in question.
... and those who want to become one
Wilhelm Busch created his natural history alphabet in 1865 ( Münchener Bilderbogen Nro. 405/406) according to the subtitle "for older children and those who want to become".
And was no longer seen.
This is the last line from Goethe's ballad Der Fischer , which became famous through the setting by Franz Schubert . The song ends with the following verses:
- “She spoke to him, she sang to him;
It was all about him;
She half pulled him, half sank
and was no longer seen. "
A similar formulation can already be found in the German translation of Genesis :
- “Enoch was 65 years old and fathered Metuschelach. And Enoch walked with God. And after he became the father of Metuschelach, he lived 300 years and had other sons and daughters, so that his entire age was 365 years. And because he was walking with God, God took him away, and he was no longer seen. "
The quote is used - even in modifications - when someone or something disappears from the picture:
- "In short, he disappeared and was no longer seen."
- "The leaves of the forest swallowed him up and he was no longer seen."
- "Ordered and was never seen again."
And because people are human, they want something to eat, please!
The two verses are at the beginning of Bertolt Brecht's song about the united front . The song begins with the following words:
- “And because a person is human, he
needs something to eat, please!
He's not fed up with chatter, it doesn't
make any food. "
And when all the snow burns up.
This expression became known through the last words of old Hilse at the end of the fifth act of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Die Weber . The one-armed master weaver, horrified by the uprising, continues to work in the place where he feels God has placed himself:
- "Here we sit and do what we owe, and when all the snow burns up."
With regard to the end of the old man who is hit by a bullet at the loom, the quote is often added.
- "The ashes remain with us."
And if the world were full of devils.
The third stanza of Martin Luther's hymn begins with these words : A strong castle is our God :
- “And if the world were full of devils
and even want to devour us,
we are not so afraid, we
should succeed.
The prince of this world,
no matter how mad he is, he
doesn't do us;
that makes, he is judged:
a word can make him. "
This quote can be found on the aluminum portal doors of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche , which were designed by the sculptor Gerhard Marcks . The middle portal shows on the outside in relief the fight of St. George against the dragon and in raised letters the quote from Martin Luther.
So they lived happily ever after.
These words are considered the classic closing formula of fairy tales and can be found, for example, in the fairy tale Fundevogel . It says of the children who escaped the witch:
- “The children went home together and were very happy; and if they haven't died, they are still alive. "
The quote is not only used with reference to fairy tales:
- "And if you haven't died, squander your deposit money."
- "And if they haven't died ... The children of Golzow." (Film title)
- "Psychosozial-Verlag: And if they haven't died, then they still suffer today."
And if you don't want to be my brother, I'll break your head in.
This mocking verse from the revolutionary year 1848 is based on the slogan that emerged during the French Revolution :
- "La fraternité ou la mort!"
- "Fraternity or Death!"
The German Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow used the verse in 1903 in a speech during a dispute in the Reichstag, thereby helping it to gain new popularity.
The psychoanalyst Werner Bohleber writes about this quote:
- "The otherness must be eliminated, either from perception through denial or through the psychological removal of the other person."
Never ending Story
The Neverending Story is the title of a youth novel by Michael Ende from 1979. The story takes place in the land of fantasies, which the child hero enters by reading a stolen book and recreates with his ideas. This process is the Neverending Story, which a reader could use his imagination to expand so that the story continues without end. A fantasy film of the same name was made by Wolfgang Petersen in 1984.
Inability to grieve
In 1967, the psychoanalysts Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich published a collection of social analysis papers under the title The Inability to Mourn. Basics of collective behavior . They deal with the fact that part of the German population suppressed the crimes of National Socialism after the Second World War .
Unwritten law
An unwritten law is something that is binding and has become naturalized without being set down in writing. The term appears for the first time in one of the laws of the statesman Solon of Athens and reads in Greek:
- " Ἄγραφος νόμος "
- agraphos nomos
The ancient Jewish historian Flavius Josephus reproaches the Greeks with the following:
- “ Wasn't even the name νόμος [= nomos] for law known to the Greeks from ancient times, as it can be seen from the fact that Homer does not use the word in any of his poems. In his day there was nothing like that, but the masses were directed according to vague opinions and by the orders of the king. That is why for a long time there was only unwritten tradition, many of which were changed again depending on the circumstances. "
The last sentence seems to refer to the long oral case law. Of course, Josephus might be wrong about Homer , because in his day there were laws and the term nomos , but not at the time of the Trojan War .
Unbelieving Thomas
This expression has its origin in the Gospel of John , where the appearance of the risen Jesus among his disciples is reported:
- “But Thomas wasn't with them when Jesus came. The other disciples said to him; We saw the Lord. But he said to them: Unless I see the marks on the nails in his hands and put my hand on his side, I will not believe it. "
The derogatory term “unbelieving Thomas” goes back to this tradition, because he initially doubted the resurrection of Jesus until he was allowed to touch the wounds of the risen Christ himself.
The apostle Thomas is one of the twelve disciples who accompanied Jesus for three years. In the apocryphal Acts of Thomas it is narrated that Thomas went east to preach Christianity and came to India. The so-called Thomas Christians attribute their community to him.
Close encounter of the third kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (English: Close Encounters of the Third Child ) is an American is feature film from 1977, the extraterrestrial beings from landing on Earth. The film title goes back to the American astronomer J. Allen Hynek , whocategorizedreports of encounters with UFOs as follows:
- Encounters of the first kind are, for example, electromagnetic interference
- Encounters of the second kind are spots on the ground as evidence of the appearance of a UFO
- Encounters of the third kind are observations of human-like beings
Based on this categorization, the following types of encounters are named in the film:
- Sighting a UFO
- Presence of physical evidence of the UFO
- Contact with a UFO or its occupants
Indestructible
The expression, which should actually mean 'indestructible' or possibly 'indestructible', originated in advertising. In 1990, Coca-Cola began to replace glass bottles from one liter with plastic bottles made of PET and created with the grammatically incorrect expression (the suffix -bar should not be combined with an adjective, but only with a verb or, in exceptional cases, with a noun) increased media attention. In 2009 the expression “indestructible” was added to the Duden .
In the 2010s, the term for durable objects of any kind or for particularly resistant living beings, e.g. B. bacteria or insects, but also for long-term successful media productions such. B. James Bond films or the music of the Rolling Stones used.
Disorder and early suffering
Disorder and Early Suffering is the title of a story by Thomas Mann from 1925. It deals with the changes taking place in the family of a history professor, which are only a reflection of the changes that are taking place in contemporary events.
Unshaven and far from home
This expression comes from the language of the soldiers during the First World War and probably goes back to August von Platen's ballad Das Grab im Busento . There it says of the funeral of the Gothic king Alaric I :
- “Lisp at night at the Busento, by Cosenza, muffled songs, an
answer echoes from the waters, and in eddies it sounds again!
And up and down the river, the shadows of brave Goths, who
weep Alaric, the best dead of their people, are drawn.
Too early and far from home they had to bury him here,
While the young curls still surrounded his shoulder blond. "
Injustice does not prosper.
This saying comes from the proverbs of Solomon :
- “ 1 These are the proverbs of Solomon. A wise son is his father's joy; but a foolish son is his mother's grief. 2 Wrong Good does not help; but righteousness saves from death. "
This saying varies:
- "Injustice Gut does not hold out."
- "Injustice Gut has eagle feathers."
- "Injustice good does not make you rich."
Our heart is restless until it rests in you, O Lord.
The well-known sentence at the beginning of the confessions (Latin: Confessiones ), the autobiographical considerations of the church doctor Augustine of Hippo , reads in Latin:
- "Inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te, Domine."
The theme is the wrong ways and the completion of the striving for union with God. Augustine was a busy person looking for the right path and it took around 30 years to find the goal of his path. The whole quote goes like this:
- "You, O Lord, made us for you, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you."
Today the quote is often used for obituaries.
We feel very cannibalically.
The company in Auerbach's cellar sings in Goethe's Faust I after Mephisto has procured wine for them through magic:
Mephistopheles (with strange gestures).
- “The vine bears grapes!
Horns of the billy goat!
The wine is juicy, wood the vines,
the wooden table can also give wine.
A deep look into nature!
Here's a miracle, just believe!
Now pull the stopper and enjoy! "
All (by pulling the stoppers and pouring the required wine into each glass).
- "O beautiful well that flows to us!"
Mephistopheles.
- "Just be careful not to spill anything for me!"
(They drink repeatedly.)
Everyone (sing).
- "We feel quite cannibalically,
As like five hundred pigs!"
It is the four drinking brothers who sing these words.
In old maeren we are accompanied by a miracle.
These are the first words of the Nibelungenlied , the first stanza of which reads as follows:
- "In old maeren we are wondrously by the side
of heroes praiseworthy,
of great work, of joys, honeysuckles, of weeping and complaints,
of brave warriors strit muget ir nu wondershöeren say."
- “In old tales we are told many wonderful
things about praiseworthy heroes, great struggle,
joys, celebrations, weeping and lamentations;
you can now hear wonderful stories about the battles of daring heroes. "
The Nibelungenlied consists of two parts: the first part focuses on Kriemhild's first marriage to Siegfried and Siegfried's death, the second on her revenge. The spatial environment is the Burgundian empire on the Rhine , as well as (in the second part) south-east Germany and the Danube area of today's Austria and Hungary.
Country innocence
A young woman is referred to as rural innocence , and occasionally also a man who appears to be particularly inexperienced. The expression, which can already be found in a similar form in Goethe and Wieland, became popular with the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss . There, the chambermaid Adele sings the aria Spiel ich die Innocent vom Lande , which begins as follows:
- " If I play innocence from the country, of
course in short
clothes, I hop around teasingly,
As if I were a squirrel;
And comes a clean young man,
so I blink at him with a smile,
Though only through my fingers
As a child of nature,
And tug at my apron ribbon - "
Our life is 70 years.
In Psalm 90 we read:
- "Our life lasts for 70 years, and when it comes up it's 80 years, and when it has been delicious, it has been labor and work"
The psalmist thus contradicts the ages given for Methuselah (969 years), Abraham (176 years) and Moses (120 years).
At the beginning of this psalm are the familiar words:
- "Because a thousand years before you are like the day that passed yesterday and like a night watch."
Our man in Havana
Our Man in Havana (English: Our Man in Havana ) is an English film shot in 1959 based on the novel ofthe same name by Graham Greene . The hero of the novel, a vacuum cleaner dealer, acts as a British agent in Cuba and is supposed to set up a “Caribbean agent network”. He agrees because he suffers from constant financial worries because of his reckless daughter, although he has no idea of intelligence work. He just makes up the information that London expects from him. The greatest impression is made by a plan of a huge military complex that he provided, which turns out to be a construction sketch of a vacuum cleaner.
Today, the title is mostly quoted with other location information:
- "Our man in Moscow"
- "Our man in Cannes"
- "Our man in Dubai"
Our summer is just a winter painted green.
The poet Heinrich Heine wrote in Italy about the German summer:
- “'Oh dear woman!' I said to her, 'It's very frosty and humid in our country, our summer is just a winter painted green, even the sun has to wear a flannel jacket if it doesn't want to catch cold; in this yellow flannel sunshine our fruits can never thrive, they look sour and green, and between us, the only ripe fruit we have is fried apples. '"
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote similarly :
- “The German climate alone is sufficient to discourage strong and even heroically designed viscera. ... Paris, Provence, Florence, Jerusalem, Athens - these names prove: genius is conditioned by dry air, by pure sky - that is, by rapid metabolism. "
Our currency, your problem!
With this slogan, several bankers in the USA pointed to the worldwide superiority of the US dollar, which repeatedly brought other economies into distress through devaluations, especially in the 1970s (collapse of the Bretton Woods system ). Since the importance of the US dollar relative to global economic output continues to decline, a devaluation of the dollar nowadays increasingly leads to rising dollar commodity prices, so that a currency devaluation also means a risk of inflation for the USA.
Our flag flutters ahead of us.
The line from a song by the Hitler Youth by Baldur von Schirach is occasionally quoted to describe an alcohol plume . The Song Forward! Forward! blare the bright fanfare from which this quote comes, ends with the following words:
- “Our flag flutters ahead, our
flag is the new time.
And the flag leads us into eternity!
Yes, the flag is more than death! "
The song is forbidden in Germany according to § 86a StGB. In Austria, comparable provisions apply due to Section 3 of the Prohibition Act 1947.
Under all cannon
The expression "Unter aller Kanone" comes from the school sector and goes back to the Latin term " sub omni canone ". What is meant is the canon as a measure of a certain knowledge and the grades that are given on the knowledge of the student. Evidence can be found in the Saxon school operation of the 18th century, where a visiting pastor complains that he has “made a canon of five grades (optime, bette, sic satis, male, pessime), but that unfortunately many works are so bad that they can only be called 'sub omni canone' ”. The phrase is actually older.
The phrase sub omni canone (Latin for below any standard) is used when evaluating a dissertation to denote unsatisfactory performance.
Under the yoke
To be under the yoke means that someone has been brought to their knees, humiliated, and offended. Generally oxen pulled the wagons under the yoke .
After their defeat in the Battle of the Kaudin Passes in 321 BC. The Romans were forced under the Caudin yoke - the soldiers had to pass under a symbolic yoke, a trellis formed from crossed spears, as a humiliation.
One of Caesar's propaganda maneuvers was, after his victory in the battle of Bibracte in 58 BC. To send them under the yoke via the Helvetii and to portray them in this way - a particularly great humiliation.
The liberation from the Turkish yoke described (1886-1889) Ivan Wasow in his work "Under the Yoke".
Under the gowns Muff of a thousand years
" Under the gowns - mustard of 1000 years " was the text of a banner that was unveiled to the public in 1967 by the Hamburg student and AStA chairman Detlev Albers together with his fellow student Gert Hinnerk Behlmer when the rectorate was handed over to the public. The resulting press photo has been reprinted many times, and the text of the banner has since been cited many times for decades as the core sentence of the 1968 movement . The text came from Peter Schütt , then a research assistant at the University of Hamburg. In an interview, Detlev Albers explained the reasons that prompted him and his fellow students to take the action:
- “With the banner we wanted to tell the universities that they had so far avoided coming to terms with their role in the 'Third Reich'. It was also the time of the extra-parliamentary opposition to the first grand coalition: We fought against the emergency laws, against the Vietnam War and for nothing less than a revolution in society as a whole. "
The action at the handover of the rectorate in Hamburg was not the first time this banner was used. It had already been used a few months earlier during the rally for the funeral service for the killed student Benno Ohnesorg , but at the time it did not cause a stir. The original transparency is now in the Hamburg State Archives.
Under one hat
For the film adaptation of his Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht added three stanzas to the ballad in which Macheath pardons everyone in 1930. The first of these new closing stanzas is:
- “And so at the end of the day
everything comes under one roof.
If the necessary money is available, it
usually ends well. "
With the quote “Is the necessary money available” one indicates today that the realization of a project is often only possible with the necessary money.
It doesn't matter between comrades.
This saying comes from the comedy War in Peace , which the German writer Gustav von Moser wrote in 1881 together with the Austrian playwright Franz von Schönthan .
You quote these words when you want to suggest that you are among like-minded people who make up everything among themselves.
Take under his wing
This phrase is found in two Old Testament psalms :
- "Let me dwell in your hut forever and have refuge under your wing."
- "He will cover you with his wings, and your confidence will be under his wings."
Those who take someone under their wing take care of them. The picture is based on a bird protecting its young under its wings.
Fall of the West
The decline of the West. Outline of a morphology of world history is the main cultural and philosophical work of Oswald Spengler .
The main title was always a cause for misunderstanding. In its darkly accentuated formulation, it went back to Otto Seeck's story of the fall of the ancient world. Spengler expressly protested against the pessimistic interpretation of his book title:
- “ The word does not contain the concept of a catastrophe. If one says completion instead of downfall, (...) the 'pessimistic' side is temporarily switched off, without the actual meaning of the term having been changed . "
Without having to change a letter in his work, Spengler could have called it The Perfection of Western Culture .
The old people are incomprehensible to me.
These words are taken from the poem Die Alten und die Junge by the German writer Theodor Fontane . The poem expresses the generation conflict with the following verses:
- “'The young are incomprehensible to us'
Is sung constantly by the old;
For my part, I would like to stick with it:
'I don't understand the old people.'
This wanting to stay at the helm
in all
things and all roles, this indispensable feeling together with your
'eyes of silent weeping',
As if the world
were hurt - oh, I can't understand it. "
Unprepared as I am.
This joking phrase was originally a Freudian mistake . In 1834, a building supervisor named Matthias in Halle began his answer to a toast with the words "Unprepared as I am". He paused, then took out his manuscript and read his prepared speech.
These words are often used today as an ironic introduction to a lecture to create a more relaxed atmosphere.
Ignorance is not an argument.
This sentence was attributed to Spinoza by Friedrich Engels in the so-called Anti-Dühring ( Mr. Eugen Dühring's revolution in science ; Chapter IX). There it says:
- "To which we can only answer with Spinoza: Ignorantia non est argumentum, ignorance is no evidence."
Engels countered the obscurantist argument that one should believe on the basis of ignorance and stated that ignorance is not an argument for God.
Up forever untagged
Up is eternally ungedelt (High German: forever undivided ) is part of the Treaty of Ripen 1460, in which the rule in Schleswig and Holstein was newly regulated. Through an anti-Danish poem that the Apenrad doctor August Wilhelm Neuber wrote in 1841, it became the catchphrase of the “Schleswigholsteiner” of the state law demanded by the Holstein assembly of estates in 1844: “The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein are firmly connected states.” In the following first Schleswig- The Holstein War from 1848 to 1851 as well as in the Second Schleswig-Holstein War it was the German catchphrase. The motto came to its last political significance when, at the end of the First World War, the Versailles Treaty gave Denmark the possibility of a plebiscite in Schleswig. Due to the referendum in Schleswig of 1920, contrary to this state law, Northern Schleswig was separated from Schleswig-Holstein .
Ancient lavender
This slang term is used to describe something as completely out of date. The formulation is the joking use of the name of an Eau de Cologne made by Lohse with a lavender scent , which used to be very well known. For this perfume, the writer Elisabeth Langgässer , who was banned from writing in 1936 as a “ half-Jew ”, wrote advertising texts.
“Ancient” probably refers to the recipe, an old, tried and tested mixture. Ancient lavender , however, has become synonymous with outdated.
Individual evidence
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