Beer Comment
The Beer Comment (even beer Comment or -komment ) is a student Comment that the behavior at pubs or Kommersen controls. In principle, each student association has its own comments, but there are often similarities.
General
A beer comment is a summary of all the rules that have been handed down or that have been in force through longstanding custom in so-called beer matters . The prefix beer in designations of the beer comment indicates that these are matters regulated in the beer comment. The beer comment usually serves to improve order and to increase the comfort, to determine the beer rights, i.e. the rights of the individual Corona members regulated according to the beer comment, and is valid wherever three beer-honest , i.e. the respective comment submissive boys are together to enjoy the commentary . The beverages provided by the respective beer comment are designated as comment-compliant substances; Usually the beer is, but it can also mean wine , spritzers or other, mostly alcoholic beverages. Since each student association can have individually adapted rules, the house rules of the respective corporation house usually apply .
history
Beer comments originated in the 19th century and ironically reflected the comment of the convent . The reason for its constitution was, in addition to the ironic reflection of the material learned by students (as it is still found today, for example, in the form of a barbecue code created by civil servants ), also the parody of rules of conduct such as the SC comments .
At that time, pandect science was still part of the legal studies . Accordingly, the beer comments mostly follow the classification personae , res , actiones . Some beer comments were also put in writing; the oldest surviving beer comment comes from Heidelberg and was made a general Heidelberg beer comment in 1815 by representatives of the Heidelberg Corps Guestphalia, Nassovia, Rhenania inferior , Suevia and Helvetia.
The General German Beer Comment
In 1899, Reclam's general German beer comment appeared , which first attempted to summarize the different beer comments in every university town and to present a uniform comment. The beer comments maintained in the connections can, however, differ considerably.
The general German beer comment is divided into the following areas:
general part
In the general part, the concept of the beer comment as well as roughly the functions of the Kneip participants and their rank are clarified. A pub table consists of the presidium, the counter presidium (or also called contrarium), boys and foxes . Furthermore, the condition of a pub is determined, so the emblems of the student union are usually displayed on the head of a pub, as well as a colored spear in front of the presidium and a chalkboard at the counter presidium. Finally, the beer wasted, also called BV, and the beer sick are defined.
Bierverschiss means the exclusion from the beer comment and from drinking games because of improper behavior or drunkenness. As beer ill participants are called, want to drink any beer or no comment proper materials or can; they are exempt from the drinking rules of the beer comment.
Pub Laws
In the Kneip laws of kommentgemäße be material , and regulations on Tempus shown. This chapter also covers beer fines . An important part of averting a beer penalty is adhering to the right time in beer stores, the beer minute.
Beer minute
A beer minute is a unit of time among fraternity students. The following applies: five beer minutes = three minutes of time . Often a beer minute only contains half of the civil time: six beer minutes = three minutes of time . This is the time in which, as a rule, the usual, beer-honest actions among color students must be carried out. (e.g. a pot, a beer boy or a relay ).
Beer shops
Pre- and post-drinking serve to enliven a pub . Every pre-drunk quantity up to a whole must be accepted. A third, beer-honest pub participant can relieve the beer obligation after drinking with the words: "Thank you, given, I'll take over!" There are also special forms of honoring with any amount, but only to drink something special from a freshly filled beverage . Here increases are also possible, such as the very special .
Beer ceremonies
Beer scandals or beer boys are called beer ceremonies .
ADB § 42: “Anyone who buzzes a beer boy at a pub participant has to name a referee within five beer minutes and have the presidium announce that the beer boy must rise within another five beer minutes. The demanded has as a sign that he accepts the beer boy to say "hang"; if he does not do this, he goes into the BV after pedaling three times. "
There is also the beer dish . This is used if someone has been wronged in a pub.
"The stupidest glue you crawl on is a drunken beer dish."
Solemn pub ceremonies
The highest student honor that can be paid to a person or cause, the salamander , falls under the category of celebratory pub ceremonies . Another ceremony that is handled differently from connection to connection is the father of the country .
§ 11
(see also paragraph 11 )
A frequently cited paragraph of the General German Beer Commentary is § 11 : "It is drunk off". This certain jokingness is interpreted by critics in such a way that pubs would be superficial and extreme drinking events and alcoholism would be strongly encouraged. Defenders of the beer comment see in the criticism an underestimation of the intellectual character of a Kommerses or a pub and the point of the beer comment is precisely to bring about a certain discipline and order through the regulations of the beer comment. More recently, however, some links have removed the controversial paragraph.
literature
- Adolf Bingel : Studies on the influence of beer drinking and fencing on the hearts of young people . Munich Medical Weekly 2/54 (1907)
- Michael Foshag and Jochen Scheld (eds.): General German beer commentary . Morstadt-Verlag, revised version
- Peter Hauser : On the history of the Swiss beer comment . In: then and now . Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 45 (2000), pp. 23–37.
- Robert Paschke : Corps student dictionary . In: Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, Vol. I. Würzburg 1985 (6th edition), p. 321.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The oldest known beer comment (from 1815) . In: Academische Monatshefte 16 (1899/1900), pp. 148-150.
