Peace, joy and pancakes
Peace, joy, pancake is a phrase that describes an only superficially intact, seemingly peaceful and carefree facade within a society. It is often used to express that one is suppressing problems instead of solving them. The origin of this idiom is not clear. The Society for German Language (GfdS) could not find a verifiable explanation even with the tendering of a price task. One of the oldest written mentions can be found in the satire magazine Eulenspiegel from June 1959, in the category Die Theatereule . The screenwriter, satirist and critic Carl Andrießen delivers an ironic, derogatory criticism of Gustav von Wangenheim's student comedy , which he ends with the sentence: “ At the end, as it should be, peace, joy, pancakes and applause. "
Peace, joy, pancakes was that of Dr. Motte proclaimed the motto of the first Love Parade in 1989, which was initially necessary to be able to declare the parade as a demonstration. " Peace " stood for disarmament , " joy " for music as a means of international understanding and " pancake " for a fair distribution of food .
literature
- Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of proverbial sayings . Volume 2; Freiburg / Br. 1994, p. 476.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peace, Joy, Meatballs , Die Zeit, July 29, 2010.
- ↑ Quotation: “ Dramaturgically, the piece is very simple, and someone is always there at the right time to please continue the dialogue on the scene. ".
- ↑ Eulenspiegel, June 3, 1959, Volume 6 (14), No. 24, p. 6.
- ↑ "Peace, Joy, Pancakes." The Story of the Love Parade. ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive )