Fecal humor
With toilet humor (less often scatological humor ) is a type of humor called, which his comedy mainly from the thematizing of excrement relates. Faecal humor is not limited to the eponymous human stool, rather all kinds of jokes , punchlines or hype that deal with excretion , its products or the associated body organs can fall under the term .
The breaking of taboos is characteristic of faecal humor ; it is to a large extent - but not exclusively - found in children's jokes. Accordingly, this humor, which is often perceived as childish, meets with alienation and is therefore sometimes referred to as pee-poop humor .
history
Examples of fecal humor exist in different ages. Corresponding passages can be found in ancient times, especially in Catullus and in the satires of Juvenal . The most prominent example from medieval literature are the quarrels about Till Eulenspiegel , of which a good fifth of the stories have a fecal background. The fragment Hanswursts Hochzeit by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe comes from the time of the Enlightenment , as well as some works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (such as the canons Leck mich im Arsch KV 231, Lick mich dem Arsch fein, Pretty Clean KV 233, Bona nox KV 561 or the Bäslebriefe ) are sometimes viewed from the point of view of faecal humor.
Sometimes an anality and a penchant for scatological jokes were also attributed to the national character . In 1928, the folklorist Paul Englisch took the view that France “could at least vary this monotonous subject in such a way that it could find funny sides”. Alan Dundes tried me too in 1985 in his book You Me Too! To present anality as an "integral part of the German national character".
Interpretative approaches
Faecal humor is particularly found in children's jokes, where it often occurs in preschool age mainly through the pronouncement of taboo words; in older children the scatological humor appears more in double text references and language games. In both cases, the jokes serve as an instrument to bring up otherwise forbidden speech content. Furthermore, norms (like cleanliness ) are confirmed by the jokes by laughing at their deviation.
Even with adults, scatological jokes are still interpreted as a vehicle with which taboos can be broken. If this succeeds, one can laugh liberatingly, otherwise the joke meets with embarrassment or shame.
Trivia
The term appears remarkably frequently in film reviews . The vocabulary lexicon of the University of Leipzig names the word “film” as a significant co-occurrence with “faecal humor”.
Important, related Wikipedia articles
literature
- Frank Matthias Kammel : Enjoyment of life, anal metaphors and moralizing ridicule. A snuffbox from the late 18th century in a cultural and historical context . In: Anzeiger des Germanisches Nationalmuseum . 2007, p. 137–160 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
- Andrea Grafetstätter (Ed.): Food, necessity and obscenity in the Middle Ages and early modern times . Files from the Bamberg 2011 conference (= Bamberg interdisciplinary medieval studies. Volume 6). University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2014
- Gregor Balke: Poop Feminism - Fäkalkomik as female self-empowerment . transcript, Bielefeld 2020, ISBN 978-3-8376-5138-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stefan Hauser: How children tell jokes. A linguistic study on the acquisition of narrative skills (= Zurich German Studies . Volume 60 ). Peter Lang, Bern 2005, ISBN 3-03910-766-6 , pp. 188 ff .
- ↑ Marc Röhlig: The Schweiger formula . In: Der Tagesspiegel , accessed on October 26, 2016
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Behr: All shit - or what? Occurrence and function of excrement in literary texts of the early modern period . In: Andrea Grafetstätter (Ed.): Food, necessity and obscenity in the Middle Ages and early modern times . Files from the Bamberg 2011 conference (= Bamberg interdisciplinary medieval studies . Volume 6 ). University of Bamberg Press, Bamberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86309-186-6 , pp. 15-32 .
- ↑ Kammel, 2007, p. 156
- ↑ Kammel, 2007, p. 146
- ^ Entry "Fäkalhumor" ( memento from October 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the vocabulary dictionary of the University of Leipzig, accessed on October 26, 2016