Konkneipant

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The later Emperor Wilhelm II. As a connoisseur of the Corps Borussia Bonn , 1877. As a member of the royal family, Wilhelm was not allowed to fencing scales , but his crippled left arm also stood against it.
Karl Prinz von Ratibor and Corvey as concneipant of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen, 1879. Cap and bow are colored blue.

A Konkneipant (also Conkneipant ) is a temporary or permanent member of a fraternity with limited rights and obligations. The designation expresses that the person regularly attends the pubs of the association. The status is usually given to people who cannot be a full member for statutory reasons. So these people who are interested in the connection and who are often deserving should be integrated into the community.

Konkneipanten occur in all common types of connection. In color-bearing connections, the connoisseur usually wears a bow in connection colors on his lapel instead of a ribbon . Prominent examples of connoisseurs were Theodor Storm , the later Kaiser Wilhelm II , Max Weber , Herbert von Karajan or, more recently, the Hamburg mayor Christoph Ahlhaus . The status found literary mention in the novels of the brothers Heinrich and Thomas Mann .

In a broader sense, the term entered everyday language to a limited extent - to designate a drinking companion or an extraordinary membership in a community.

description

Motivation for own status

Possible statutory grounds for exclusion for a person as a full member of a connection that open up the need for a separate status include:

  • not to study or, in the case of student connections, not to attend a higher school,
  • Temporary stay at a university location that is not sufficient for normal active time (e.g. for an academic year),
  • in the case of denominational corporations to belong to a deviating creed,
  • physically incapable of fencing in the case of connections with a length that is striking,
  • to be already a full member of another association that excludes double full membership.

External signs

In the case of colored connections, connoisseurs can usually be recognized by their color . So the Konkneipant usually does not wear a ribbon, but only the hat or cap or in addition to this a bow with the connecting colors on the lapel or over the breast pocket.

There are also connections in which the connoisseur wears a band in slightly different colors ( e.g. reverse order or only different percussion ) or a reduced number of colors - the same or similar to the fox band used in many connections . The hat can also differ and, for example, have a border with only two instead of three colors. Such variants occur, among other things, with connections in the Wingolfsbund .

Rights and obligations

The exact rights and obligations of a connoisseur are determined by the respective association and are accordingly not uniform, but by and large similar.

Connoisseurs have the right and are expected to attend the pubs and social events. You can use the connection infrastructure (library, reading room, etc.). At the convents, associates have no voting rights, but sometimes they have a seat and an advisory vote; they cannot accept batches either . In beating connections they do not have to fencing lengths and accordingly also do not need to crap , but are usually allowed to do so if they wish.

Linguistic classification

The term is a typical example of the German student language of the 19th century and its mixture of languages, "macaronic Latin". It has the Latin prefix con- (dt .: mit- ) as a typical antiquing element . Originally, a “co-pub” (or “Kneipschwanz”) was referred to as a conkneipant, that is, a regular guest at the pubs of a connection who is not a member. This developed into "Mitkneipant" and finally "Konkneipant".

In 1890, the magazine of the General German Language Association criticized the influence of the student's language in the article German words, un-German endings and mentioned Konkneipant twice:

“The extensive creative and language-distorting activity of the students has also done its part in this area. Apart from Konkneipant and some of the others already mentioned, this is proven by such faded phenomena as Fratzier (pronounced Fratzieh), Kneipier, Paukier, Schnauzier, Wichsier (after French reindeer and s. W.), From which the Suitier or Schwitjeh should not be missing. "

"In the reverse order, foreign and German are cemented together in words such as super-clever, anti-German, contredampf, ex-king or even Konkneipant, anti-Wagnerian (compare also by steam, à piece, à la Bismarck)."

The linguist Friedrich Kluge provides a more neutral description in his book German Student Language , Chapter "Ancient Elements" , published in 1895 :

“Lately, the mixed formations Paukant and Konkneipant - in Vollmann's time Mitkneipant - have prevailed as technical expressions in the student language. In the older days, several boyish words corresponded, all of which probably refer back to Bacchant . Bacchants were in the 15th-16th centuries. Century the newcomers to the high schools. "

- Friedrich Kluge : German student language

Art and literature

Representations of the connoisseur as a liaison member

Novels

In literary terms, the position of the connoisseur in contrast to the full member is taken up by Heinrich Mann in his novel The Subject . There, the status of the fictitious corporation Neuteutonia serves - not in the real sense - to bind the protagonist Diederich Heßling to the connection, subsequently to wedge him as a fox and finally to bring him to the connection as a full member.

“But Hornung, who had announced his departure, stayed away; and when he finally came he was wearing a green-yellow-red cap. He was immediately wedged for a bond by a colleague. Diederich was also to join her; it was the neutrons, a very fine corporation, said Hornung; six pharmacists were there. Diederich hid his horror under a mask of contempt, but it didn't help. He shouldn't embarrass Hornung for speaking of him; he must at least pay a visit. "But only one," he said firmly.

One of them lasted until Diederich lay under the table and they took him away. When he had slept in, they fetched him a morning pint; Diederich had become a connoisseur. And he felt destined for this post. He saw himself placed in a large circle of people, none of whom did anything to him or asked him to do anything other than drink. [...]

He would have loved to keep doing it for years. But the neutrons wouldn't let him. Almost from the very first day they had told him the moral and material worth of being fully part of the fraternity; but gradually they went out more and more bluntly to wedge him. [...] In vain did Diederich refer to his recognized position as a connoisseur, into which he had settled and which satisfied him. [...] He should be cramming! [...] Now he thought tightly: 'Why did I stick with it and become a connoisseur! Now I have to 'go.' "

Examples of other authors who mention the connoisseur in their novels include:

memoirs

The philosopher and writer Fritz Mauthner mentions in his memoirs a short membership as a connoisseur in a fraternity:

“I was wedged for a progressionist fraternity, which as far as I can remember was Greater German, by no means black and yellow, and then dissolved; I only became a connoisseur for a short time. Surely I had become too independent to subject myself, to whom I hated every external discipline, even in scientific and literary work, to a discipline of drinking; Nevertheless, without any discipline, I have become a very hard-drinking man and a very hard-working worker. "

- Fritz Mauthner : Memories, Volume 1: Prague Youth, Chapter 16: Pranks and Celebrations

The Indologist Paul Deussen remembered that his father was an associate of a corps:

“By the way, [my father] was not only a hardworking student, he was also a jolly student, as he was never a head-hanger later on either. If a somewhat uncertain memory does not deceive me, then he belonged as a connoisseur to the Westphalia corps. I once asked him: "Papa, did you have a duel too." - "It was planned," he replied; "I asked for one, but the guy didn't come, had peurs , so it didn't happen."

- Paul Deussen : My life, chapter: My childhood on the Rhine

Who suffers from a psychosis writer Daniel Paul Schreber describes in his 1903 published Memoirs of My Nervous Illness that, among other things, "learn from the way the nervous Annex speaking with me voice" to have him treated psychiatrist Flechsig Paul once Konkneipant the Corps Saxonia Leipzig been be. In fact, Flechsig was a full member of the Alte Leipziger Landsmannschaft Afrania .

Movie

In 1916 the German short-silent film Der Konkneipant was released , produced by Wanda Treumann and Viggo Larsen . Franz Eckstein and Rosa Porten wrote the script and directed , the main actors were Else Eckersberg and Arthur Schröder .

Extended meanings of the word

In a figurative sense, Konkneipant served as a name for a drinking buddy outside of the student associations. In this sense, the chemist Emil Fischer used the term:

“At that time, Königs and I lived with the same landlady on the same floor and often visited each other late at night to have a glass of wine together. Shortly before the festival, on my return home, I met König in his room in the company of a young chemist, both apparently somewhat affected by my entry. Königs had just written the Guanole song and had one of the best types of wine delivered to him from my wine cellar, but which was quickly replaced by coachman's wine on my arrival. The young professional was the connoisseur; because Königs needed wine and company while composing and let such assistants kick his feet forward in order not to derail. "

- Emil Fischer : From my life, chapter: High school time

In Thomas Mann's novel Der Zauberberg , a group of patients who suffer from pneumothorax and whose lung has been temporarily deactivated to heal, ironically forms the “Halbe Lunge Association”. When the protagonist Hans Castorp hears about it, he is jokingly interested in an extraordinary membership: “Are you also registered? [...] Do you have statutes? It's a shame that you're not a member, you, then they could accept me as a guest of honor or as a ... connoisseur ... "

Well-known connoisseurs (selection)

Differentiation from similar status

Especially with corps there is the lifelong status of the corps loop bearer (IdC) with restricted rights , especially for originally normally accepted members who could not fulfill all the obligations prescribed for active participants - for example not fencing the required number of lengths . But also connoisseurs are given the status of the corps bow bearer, as in the case of Ferdinand Braun , August Wilhelm von Prussia and Friedrich zu Schleswig-Holstein .

Active members of a student association who temporarily move to a new university location and join the activities of another association of the same umbrella association are not designated as associates.

  • In the case of connections, this status is usually referred to as Verkehrsgast (VG). This person may, but not necessarily, live in the fraternity house and attend their public events. The passenger is not a member of the connection with which the traffic relationship exists, does not wear their colors and has no right to sit on the convent. In the corps , a distinction must be made between the passenger and the corps student (MC), who is a member of a corps that has a friendly relationship with the host corps .
  • The situation in the Cartell Association is different . The active person becomes a temporary member (ZM; in Austria Verkehrsaktiver , VA) with all the rights and obligations of an active boy, and he wears the ribbons of both connections next to each other. Often he also receives the cap of the transport connection. He can then be awarded the ribbon for life (ribbon owner ), otherwise he leaves the connection again when he leaves the university.

Remarks

  1. ↑ This refers to the Burschicose dictionary by the Swiss Johann Grässli, pseudonym J. Vollmann, published in 1846

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Ullrich: Kaiser Wilhelm II .: Prince and loafing boy. Die Zeit , July 16, 2008, accessed on May 25, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Holger Plickert: Addresses and links of student associations and clubs in Berlin as of April 1998. 1998, accessed on June 3, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Eva Neuland: Youth language in discussion: opinions, results, conclusions , in: Karin Eichhoff-Cyrus, Rudolf Hoberg (ed.): The German language at the turn of the millennium: language culture or language decay? Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2000. pp. 107–124, here p. 111.
  4. ^ Friedrich Kluge : German Student Language, Trübner, Strasbourg 1895, p. 34.
  5. ^ * Karl Scheffler: German words, un-German endings. Journal of the General German Language Association, Volumes 5-8, August 1, 1890. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ^ Friedrich Kluge: German Student Language , Verlag KJ Trübner, 1895, page 36 ( preview in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ Sebastian Zilles: The schools of masculinity. Men's associations in science and literature around 1900 . Cologne / Weimar 2018, p. 241.
  8. ↑ Julius Meier-Graefe : Der Vater , Verlag S. Fischer, 1932, p. 104 ( snippet preview in the Google book search)
  9. ↑ Erik Reger : Der Verbotene Sommer , Druckhaus Tempelhof 1949, p. 56 ( snippet preview in the Google book search)
  10. ↑ Richard Seewald : Die rolling ball , Hegner Verlag 1957, p. 141 ( snippet preview in the Google book search)
  11. ↑ Ingeborg Wendt : Die Gartenzwerge , Rowohlt Verlag 1960, p. 56 ( snippet preview in the Google book search)
  12. ^ Fritz Mauthner: XVI. Pranks and feasts. zeno.org, 1918, accessed May 29, 2021 .
  13. ↑ Daniel Paul Schreber: Chapter 5. zeno.org, 1903, accessed May 29, 2021 .
  14. ↑ Der Konkneipant on IMDB
  15. ↑ Der Konkneipant on filmportal.de
  16. ↑ Thomas Mann : The Magic Mountain. (PDF) p. 80 , accessed on May 29, 2021 .
  17. ^ Hike in a circle - Ludwig Mathars way home
  18. ^ Street names in Vienna since 1860 as "Political Places of Remembrance" (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 144ff, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
  19. ↑ Andreas Dey: GAL questions the choice of Christoph Ahlhaus. In: Abendblatt.de. July 26, 2010, accessed December 15, 2014 .
  20. ↑ a b Erich Bauer : Schimmer book for young corps students. Self-published by the Association of Old Corps Students, Munich 1964, p. 33.
  21. ^ Robert Paschke : Student History Lexicon. SH-Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-89498-072-9 , p. 285.
  22. ↑ CV draft

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