Ruffianism
In the context of the literary history of the 16th – 17th centuries , ruffianism Century such texts from the genre of the so-called table breeding , which attack the (allegedly) rough behavior of contemporaries in a satirical exaggeration.
On the history of Ruffian and coarseness
The word Grobian first appears in the German-Latin dictionary Vocabularius teutonicus from 1482 as a translation of the Latin word rusticus ('farmer'). St. Grobianus becomes the (invented) patron saint of the uncouth , vulgar . - The namesake for the Grobian literature is the German writer Friedrich Dedekind , whose neo-Latin work Grobianus. De morum simplicitate (1549) “gives a satirical guide to the worst possible behavior from morning to evening - as a guest as well as a host”. Caspar Scheidt translated it into German in 1551 as Grobianus / Von groben sitten und rude geberden in Knittel verse form . The word and the term "brute-force" itself presumably only date from around 1700.
In a narrower sense, ruffianism is a form of 'negative didax': the exemplary representation of misconduct in terms of manners, table manners, hygiene, discipline and morality. In this sense, the grossian literature is always related to a positive canon of behavioral norms . In addition to Friedrich Dedekind, Sebastian Brant , Johann Fischart , Thomas Murner and Hans Sachs are important representatives .
In a broader sense, however, ruffianism also means narrative texts in which rude motifs - obscenities , scatological, etc. - predominate and develop a fascination of their own that largely shakes off the moral didactic reference. One thinks of Schwankliteratur such as Dil Ulenspiegel (1510/12), of François Rabelais ' Gargantua (1532–1564; provided with a German-language variant through Johann Fischart's misunderstanding of history in 1575), and later of Schelmuffsky (1696/97) by Christian Reuter .
See also
- Grobian table breeding
- Strolling student (target of brutal criticism)
- Norbert Elias: About the process of civilization
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Bachorski: Brutalism. In: Klaus Weimar u. a. (Ed.): Reallexikon der Deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. Revision of the real dictionary of German literary history . Vol. 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-11-010896-8 , pp. 743-745
- Frank Fürbeth: Brutalism. In: Gert Ueding (Hrsg.): Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Vol. 3. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG, Darmstadt 1994 ISBN 3-484-68103-9 Sp. 1192-1196
- Dieter Wuttke: Rough poetry. In: Horst Rüdiger , Erwin Koppen (Ed.): Small literary lexicon. 4th edition. Vol. 3: Subject terms. In continuation of the 2nd and 3rd edition provided by Wolfgang Kayser . Francke, Bern 1966, p. 159
- Friedrich Dedekind: Grobianus, translated into German by Kaspar Scheidt. First edition printed in 1551. Halle 1882
Individual evidence
- ^ Rough literature. In: Volker Meid : Subject dictionary on German literature. Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-010459-9 , p. 215.
- ↑ Friedrich Dedekind: Grobianus, From coarse morals and vnhöflichen geberden. Described for the first time in Latin, by the Wolgelerten Fridericum Dedekindum, and now and Germanised by Casparum Scheidt von Wormbs. Wormbs 1551 ( Digitalisat the City Library Worms ).
