Brägel

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Brägel is a fictional character created by Jürgen Löhle . She is the main character of a gloss about cycling , which appears monthly under the rubric Radschlag in the cycling magazine Tour .

Brägel is a typical antihero, described as somewhat overweight and no longer the youngest, he does not correspond to the ideal of a cyclist at all. I.a. with the stylistic device of irony takes Jürgen Löhle the little neuroses some hobby cyclist and a bead satirizes sometimes the entire cycling scene. The reader discovers the Brägel in himself.

In cycling circles, the have Brägel and the derived brägeln now to a dictum developed. For example, unqualified statements are called bragging . A Brägel, for example, never looks for the reasons for the failure of an attempt to break away from himself. The Brägel can usually be found in the slipstream, even if this sounds a little different in his stories.

Brägel is also a term for rösti from the Black Forest .

literature

  • Jürgen Löhle: Short and flat! Brägel's collected attempts to break away. Life support for hobby cyclists. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2001, ISBN 3-7688-5207-5
  • Jürgen Löhle: Normal hardness! Bragel’s new attempts to break away. Life support for hobby cyclists. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-7688-5214-8
  • Jürgen Löhle: Just for fun! Brägel's latest breakaway attempts. Life support for hobby cyclists. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-7688-5271-5