Ladies' party

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Coffee party ( Wilhelm Schreuer , 1866–1933)
Coffee party in the GDR (1955)

Ladies' wreath (or womens wreaths or in echoes of the men’s or men’s regulars table , also women’s regulars table , also related to coffee parties or, for students, also wreaths ) is a get-together limited to essentially socially equal women for an afternoon or evening exchange. Similarly, today there are also women's or women's breakfast and - brunch meeting in the morning or in the morning.

In ladies' wreaths with the exclusive participation of virgins , that is, upper-aged women who have never been married, maiden wreaths are also used with a slightly malicious undertone , a play on words for the wreath of hair braided from myrtle .

history

Historically, a ladies 'party is a custom of the German bourgeoisie , whose male counterpart was and is still the (home) regulars' table or (in relation to the coffee party developed into a women's domain) the initially male-dominated coffee house . The forerunners of the ladies' wreath already existed in the 17th century.

Not infrequently, the ladies 'circle is seen as a phenomenon of the bourgeois women's and girls' movement. The illustrated girls' newspaper Das Kränzchen (1888 / 89–1933 / 34) is also related to this . On the other hand, especially in the Catholic youth movement since the middle of the 19th century, the maiden wreath has emerged as a synonym for the national meetings of girls.

The name is derived from the (royal) wreath that the winners received at the Whitsun shooting and that were thus also obliged to hold the next festival. Accordingly, in the period from the 16th to the 17th century, the term wreath became established for all types of (smaller) get-togethers, at which the members undertook to organize the next one in turn.

In English-speaking countries, the ladies' circle corresponds to the tea party .

Literary and musical use

  • As early as 1862, Rudolf Genée used the term women's wreath to depict a series of female character images within a book.
  • Jacques Offenbach sets the rhyme to music in Parisian life : Oh! what a beautiful ladies wreath! The splendor has driven my mind. Almost crushed me - Paris, how did you delight me !?
  • In Georg Bötticher's Alfanzerei (1899) there is a table song with the following beginning: Sociability - how charming the name sounds in a lovely wreath - in a lovely wreath!

literature

  • Peter Albrecht: Coffee. On the social history of a drink. Exhibition in Braunschweig from January 10th – 2nd March 1980, publications of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, Volume 23, Braunschweig 1980.
  • Isolde Brunner-Schubert: "Virgin wreath and virtue union". The Catholic youth movement since the middle of the 19th century. Country and people. Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1986.
  • Ulla Fölsing : Coffee party. 2001.
  • Heinrich Helmers : The maiden wreath. Another coffee chat. Frauenbühne, Volume 2, Reclam, Leipzig 1927.
  • Katja Mutschelknaus: Coffee gossip. The hour of women. 2nd Edition. Sandmann, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-938045-28-2 .
  • Volker Rodekamp : Coffee. Culture of a drink. Texts and materials from the Minden Museum, Volume 4, Minden 1987.
  • Irmgard Voss: Value orientations in the middle-class upbringing of girls using the example of the illustrated girls' newspaper “Das Kränzchen”. 1888 / 89-1933 / 34. Dissertation, Bielefeld University 1997. Kovač, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-86064-664-8 ( Studies on Childhood and Youth Research. Volume 15).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Albrecht: Drinking coffee as a symbol of social change in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. In: Roman Sandgruber , Harry Kühnel (Ed.): Enjoyment & Art. Coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, cola. Innsbruck 1994, pp. 28-39, here: pp. 34 f.