Wedding bitters
As a wedding bitters , also Hochzeitslader or - läder (by request and a load ), in Westphalia and streets Bitter ( guest Bitter ) in Old Bavaria also Progoder (from lat. Procurator ), in northern Germany Köstenbidder in Slavic-influenced areas Druschma or Druschmer are people in Germany speaking world refers to the role of the in preparing a wedding Einladers and during the wedding ceremony the role take on an organizing and often funny entertainer. The basic function of the traditional wedding bitters can be found modified in almost all cultures worldwide and not limited to Europe.
In regional and European ethnic group customs there are many different tasks assigned to the wedding bitters , some of which have a ritual character . It depends on the respective customs whether the younger groomsmen of the bride and groom take on the wedding bitter role, a freely chosen or locally fixed female or male individual or a person who is in a certain relationship to one of the bride and groom (e.g. the youngest brother of the bride).
The verbal and personal invitations to the guests are often said in traditional slogans, the same applies to entertaining sayings and speeches during the wedding celebration, especially at meals. Certain utensils, such as a colorfully decorated bitter stick or stick and alcoholic beverages “as a foretaste”, are usually brought with a wedding bitters as an invitation. There are also, culturally different, typical wedding bitter clothing or certain decorative clothing components (e.g. high colored hats).
In the case of the Sorbs , a Braška entertains the guests. In Sorbian customs, eloquent men often take on the bitter wedding duties as a permanent "office" for a long period of time and thus for many wedding couples in one place or region.
In the alpine region, especially at peasant weddings in Upper and Lower Bavaria , the Gstanzl singing of the wedding loaders is common, who make fun of the bride and groom and their guests in a joking or crude manner.
literature
- Hermann Dettmer: The figure of the wedding bitters. Investigations into the wedding invitation process and the forms, history and distribution of a custom. (= Artes populares. Volume 1). Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-261-01776-7 . (At the same time: Freiburg / Breisgau, Univ., Philos. Fac., Diss., 1975. Hermann Dettmer deals in a scientific form with the wedding loader in all of Germany and the German eastern regions)
Web links
- Example from Lausitz
- Example of a traditional wedding bittersweet in Low German from Herne
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gabriele Wand-Seyer: Even the little people make history ʹ ...: Pictures from 1000 years of Herner village history . Koethers & Röttsches, Herne 1989, ISBN 3-920556-01-1 .
- ↑ Regina Voith-Drobnitzky: Gebehhochzeiten in Westphalia: on the change in gift customs under the influence of official measures . Waxmann, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-89325-543-5 .
- ↑ Wedding loader in Salzburgwiki accessed on October 1, 2013.
- ^ Willi Wegewitz : Work report of the Helms Museum for the period from January 1, 1963 to December 31, 1964 . In: Museum and Heimatverein Harburg Stadt und Land eV (Hrsg.): Harburger Jahrbuch . No. 11 , 1965, ISSN 0722-6055 , p. 150-151 .