Hey
He lücht is a common name in Hamburg for tourist guides , especially the boat guide on harbor tours, who tell tourists not only factual information but also exaggerations, anecdotes , harmless falsehoods and other sailors' yarn .
Emergence
When HADAG started with Hamburg harbor tours in 1921 , the number of employees in the port and on the ships was much higher. On their round trips, the boats regularly came near the call of the dock workers and seamen , who also got to hear the Döntjes (anecdotes) and the Tünkram (whispering), with which the barge operators entertained their mostly unsuspecting passengers. That is why they used to often call tourists in Low German, “ Hey lue! ", In high German " He's lying! “, To. The exclamation turned into a job title by around the middle of the 20th century. This was documented in writing in 1956.
origin
The term “He lücht!” Is Low German and means: “He is lying!” Since Low German has no standardized spelling and pronunciation, other spellings such as “Hey lücht” can be read occasionally.
Examples of anecdotes and falsehoods
"From the tower of Michel you can see three seas: the sea of houses during the day, the sea of lights in the evening and nothing at night."
"In two-screw ships, as you all know, one screw is provided for the outward journey and one screw for the return journey."
“… What was told to the guests on harbor tours…; ... that the bananas are actually straight, they are only bent crookedly in the port of Hamburg. "
“The safety notice on the life jackets under the chairs must be. 'One of them is filled with lead,' adds Captain Müller. 'For the mother-in-law.' "
supporting documents
Most of the information on this article comes from:
- Daniel Tilgner: Small Lexicon of Hamburg Terms. 6th edition, Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8319-0190-2 , pp. 66-67.
- Hey! - Doing things in the harbor. Hamburger Abendblatt June 25, 2002. Accessed January 21, 2009.
In addition, the following individual references are cited:
- ↑ a b Christoph Walther, Agathe Lasch: Hamburg Dictionary. 3rd volume, L-R. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster 2004, ISBN 3-529-04603-5 , column 71-72.
- ↑ Christoph Walther, Agathe Lasch: Hamburg Dictionary. Wachholtz-Verlag, Neumünster 1956, p. 72.
- ↑ Huby Breitscheid: Sailor slang. In: Huby's Sailorseite. P. 2 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; 36 kB). Retrieved February 4, 2009.
- ↑ a b Jens Meyer-Odewald: Mr. Müller flirts with the Klabautermann. Hamburger Abendblatt January 31, 2009. Accessed February 4, 2009.
- ^ Jörn Hinrich Laue: The great Hamburg harbor tour . Retrieved February 4, 2009.
- ↑ Platt for Beginners - He lücht . ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Radio report on NDR 90.3, April 19, 2005, 9:50 a.m. Retrieved February 4, 2009.
