Bajazzo
The Bajazzo is a clown figure in Italy .
Italy
The name is derived either from the French paillasse ("straw sack") or from the Italian baia ("fun"). The Italian Pagliaccio wears an excessively wide, shivering, white robe with large buttons, the flour face has large, red-painted lips. A large , funnel-shaped felt hat sits on his head .
In the opera Der Bajazzo ( Pagliacci ) by Ruggero Leoncavallo , the Bajazzo is a betrayed husband who is not allowed to show any of his grief.
Germany
In some German dialects the word Pagliacci converts to " Bajass " and is dressed as a circus clown clown and buffoon on fairs and other exhibitions of. The more common word these days for this stupid August is the English “clown”.
The Bajass is also known as a fool figure in the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival and in Mainz.
An early story by Thomas Mann , which is devoted to the problem of artists, is entitled The Bajazzo .
In Rhenish, Bajass stands for the jumping jack made of cardboard with a pull cord, the scarecrow in the field or the traveling people at the fair . In the Palatinate dictionary, Bajass is also found as a swear word . The Ruhr German language uses it as " Paias ", clearly meant pejoratively .
In the development novel Der Pojaz by the Austrian writer Karl Emil Franzos (1848–1904) the life path of a young, gifted Jew is portrayed, who repeatedly tries to free himself from the shackles of the ghetto in order to realize his dream of becoming an actor. The Yiddish "Pojaz" is synonymous with "Bajazzo".
Remarks
- ↑ In German literature around 1800, for example by Goethe or ETA Hoffmann, this figure is also called Pagliasso . See for example: Lieselotte Blumenthal, Erich Trunz: Goethe's works: Hamburg edition in 14 volumes . 14th edition. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-08495-8 , pp. 698 ( limited preview in Google Book search).