Deckle speech

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Typical Mainz carnival shack with the owl

A Büttenrede is originally in the West German cultural area for Fastnachtszeit mostly (carnival) on carnival sessions carried forward speech . It is often rhymed and presented in the local dialect by a special lectern ( “Bütt” , Rhenish Franconian / Moselle Franconian / Cologne / Rhenish for Bütte ) . In the last few decades she has found more and more friends in eastern Germany, especially at the Berlin carnival .

to form

The classic hand-made speech is subject to more and more changes, especially in the Rhenish Carnival. The range of forms of a hand-made speech today includes elements of stand-up comedy , vocal interludes and dialogues in a duet or as a ventriloquist . Even the "Bütt" is rarely seen, mostly for technical reasons. Instead of instructive or revealing speeches as an ironic mirror of society, jokes are increasingly being presented. Even the typical characters, e.g. B. “ne policeman” or the “speaker from the Blue Party” are becoming rarer.

Litschrede

The "Zwei Schlawiner" bring the litschredner Hans Burgwinkel from the stage at the prince proclamation 2013 in Baesweiler

The litschrede, kölsch "Letschred", is a special form of the handmade paper speech born in Cologne in the Rhenish meeting carnival. Linguistically it is derived from the Low High German "letsche" = slip, slide, slip. Fritz Hönig describes it in his 1905 “Dictionary of Cologne Dialect” as “displeased with a speech”. If the speaker aroused displeasure with his performance, he was "yelped" by the band playing discordant whistles, meow whistles or fisel whistles, or the audience clearly showing their anger. Shortly before the Second World War, a well-known Cologne handcrafted speaker satirized the carnival by deliberately teasing the audience with a special litschrede until they booed from the hall. Short half-sentences about stations in life always ended with the phrase: "do wor et am räne un et wor naaß" (it was raining and it was wet). When I jebore wood, do wor et am räne un et wor naaß (When I was born ...).

But there were also well-known speakers because of a well-intentioned contribution "jeletscht", z. B. 1963 Jupp Schmitz with his song "Der Hirtenknabe von St. Kathrein" - years later, with a slightly changed text, he poked himself at his own failure and had great success with this version. In the sixties and seventies of the last century, the litschrede occasionally revived, with the chairman intervening at the height of the displeasure and clarifying the matter.

In the years 2008 to 2010 a new variant came up, especially for carnival anniversaries or nostalgia meetings. The speaker was sometimes thrown beer mats and jokingly torn from the stage, which also tore his clothes. The best known here were the Bütten speaker Christian Wirtz and Heribert Malchers from the Hänneschen Theater in Cologne.

In 2013 Hans Burgwinkel from Cologne appeared at the prince proclamation in Baesweiler with a litschrede in its original form, until he was booed from the stage by the well-known carnivalists “Die Zwei Schlawiner” to the applause of the audience.

origin

The hand-made speech goes back to the medieval custom of the "right of reprimand " , under which the common man was allowed to criticize the rulers with impunity at Shrove Tuesday .

Building the rhyme

Formally, the classic rhymed hand-made speech is characterized by a very regular meter (e.g. iambic five-meter ). It is often divided into several stanzas , which - similar to a refrain - end in the same recurring punchline . The preferred rhyme is the pair rhyme .

Lectern

There are several attempts to explain the designation of the lectern , which is often designed in the form of a barrel, as "Bütt" : from the empty wine barrel , which gives rise to bitterness , to the comparison with the mocking Diogenes , who lived in his legendary barrel, to the vat , where dirty laundry is washed.

If, on the one hand, the Bütt is used to criticize the rulers in a more or less open but always funny way, then on the other hand, quite normal jokes are told. However, at least in Cologne over the past few years, the stunksession has created a countermovement to the established carnival meeting , which is characterized by the bitterness that seems to be rubbed away in some televised meetings.

Another name for the Bütt is the "foolish rostra ".

The establishment and resignation of handmade paper speaker accompanies the hall with a chapel - formerly composed specially for each company - vats march , the most famous thereof should the Narrhallamarsch be.

Well-known hand-made speakers

Aachen Carnival

Franconian Carnival

Cologne Carnival

Marc Metzger at an appearance in 2011

Mainz Carnival

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wrede, Neuer Kölnischer Sprachschatz, second volume, 1993, Greven Verlag Cologne, ISBN 3-7743-0243-X , p. 143
  2. ^ Fritz Hönig, Dictionary of Cologne Dialect, 1952 reprint of the 1903 edition, jP Bachem Cologne, p. 131
  3. ↑ Koelner-Karneval-Info, Letsched ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 9, 2020
  4. ^ Articles in the Carnivalists' Forum ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 9, 2020
  5. ↑ Jeckenreporter ( Memento from October 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Facebook page Baesweiler Freunde , entry from November 3, 2013, accessed on November 4, 2013

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