Flower woman
Flower woman is a popular name that emerged in the 18th century for a Hökersche who sells (e) flowers on marketplaces in Berlin . The addition Berliner Original does not designate a real person, but embodies the Berlin character and means "having hair on your teeth and sometimes being a bit coarse". That includes (e) mostly rough dialogues in brash Berlin jargon without grammatical accuracy. In this way the flower sellers attracted attention and interested customers . The term flower woman has not remained limited to Berlin, the florist is also referred to and respected as a flower woman in many other German cities, as shown by the inauguration of a memorial for an honorary citizen in Schwerin in 2010 .
Use of the term and typical clothing
Possibly there was also a real person for the name, because in some depictions she is called the flower woman Jette . However, no binding materials have been handed down for this.
Towards the end of the 20th century, the name slowly went out of fashion because the sales facilities and sales culture had fundamentally changed. Even if there are still flower stalls in markets today, the behavior described is rarely found.
The pictorial representations of the flower woman show the artists' ideas on this catchphrase - different situations when offering and / or selling flowers. Derived from the fashion of the 19th / 20th centuries. In the early 20th century, the Berlin flower women were usually depicted with a large, decorated hat , a shawl over their shoulders and a wide ankle-length apron , surrounded by baskets and vessels with bouquets of flowers .
The memory of this special professional group lives on for a while in the choice of a "flower queen" at the annual Weißensee Flower Festival .
The flower woman in the media
At the beginning of the 20th century, the painter Otto Antoine made the gouache picture Flower Woman on Leipziger Strasse , which is considered valuable by art connoisseurs.
A fiction film was made in 1936 under the title Das Veilchen vom Potsdamer Platz , the main character of which is a flower girl in Berlin.
From 1988 the report book Flower Woman and Minister of Film, an Estonia mosaic by Matthias Biskupek .
Even a poem was written for a specifically named flower woman on Potsdamer Platz in 1919.
The media continue to use the catchy term of the flower woman as a synonym for a dealer in flowers.
literature
- Hans Prang, Günter Kleinschmidt: With Berlin on you and you - exquisite and overheard things from 750 years of Berlin life , FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, 1980; Page 115: "The Flower Woman"
Web links and individual references
- “Flower woman” on a picture postcard from Berlin-Steglitz, shown on zeno.org
- Short videos about flower women in other German places: Geldern, Cologne, Lindenau
- ↑ Flower woman Bertha Klingberg receives monument in Schwerin , information on news.de from June 2, 2010 , accessed on June 6, 2012
- ↑ Representation of a flower woman around 1912; Zinnfiguren - Prussian Books Cabinet ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 5, 2012
- ↑ As part of a teddy bear souvenir series "Alt-Berliner Originale" , accessed on June 5, 2012
- ↑ Website for the Weißensee Flower Festival 2012 , accessed on June 5, 2012
- ↑ Image of the Antoine picture on dannenberg.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seen on June 6, 2012
- ↑ Cover picture flower woman and film minister, an Estonia mosaic
- ↑ Hedwig Warmbier, flower woman on Potsdamer Platz
- ↑ Trial: Flower woman sued for accident pension after driving amok. The Berlin Social Court is currently dealing with an unusual procedure. The plaintiff is a 45-year-old florist from Neukölln, who was hit by her divorced husband at her flower stand and was seriously injured. In: Berliner Morgenpost from February 22, 2011
