Bladder (fraternity)

Caricature by Rudolf Wilke in Simplicissimus . “Yes, old body fox, what dashing corps boys we were once. And now our sons are with a Catholic bubble! You also want to have a career ”.

Bubble is a term used in student language in the 19th century . It initially referred to associations and loose groupings outside the student-corporate form that emerged after the middle of the 19th century, which rejected the traditionally traditional wearing of colors and student fencing in the form of the scale and the duel . The bubbles belong to the so-called “ black compounds ” because of their non-colored “obscuracy” ; they were often to be found as a school league association at grammar schools. As the first to bubble calling connection is Frisia Göttingen in 1855 demonstrated. Various groups of bubbles emerged, including the Göttingen Bubble Convention (1860) and the Waltershausen Bubble Convention (1866).

In the course of the early German Empire, the term bubble became a derisive, derogatory expression for non-colored corporations. After all, many of the numerous new corporations founded after 1871 are referred to as bubble by the older ones. Especially since the Kulturkampf , Catholic connections have been insultingly connoted as a bubble, as is reflected in the fixed term “Catholic bubble” in the satirical contributions of the Fliegende Blätter and Simplicissimus .

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• Friedhelm Golücke : Student Dictionary . Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1987 p. 67.
• Georg Heer : Bars, Kliques, Bubbles. Göttingen and Leipzig until 1848 . In: History of the German Burschenschaft . Third volume: Die Zeit des Progresses from 1833 to 1859, p. 26ff ( Herman Haupt (ed.): Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement , Volume 11, Heidelberg 1929).