Pun
As corny joke is called a simple play on words with words different meanings from the same sound or the same spelling. They are sometimes referred to as Flachwitz or Plattwitz , since with puns , as a rule, a rather low level of "merriment" is at least accepted or even used ironically .
Example: "puns are the letters A through J -" "-." "Because all of the K lurking!"
origin
There are several considerations about the origin of the term: According to the most common theory, the term refers to the town of Calau (until the beginning of the 20th century with K, also after the Sorbian name 'Kalawa') in the Brandenburg Lower Lusatia and was developed by the satirical magazine Kladderadatsch (published 1848 to 1944) in categories like From Kalau is reported ... made famous. In 2011 the city opened a joke trail that leads through the city center on 25 boards with puns.
According to another theory, the term goes back to the German folk book Der Pfaffe von Kalenberg by Philipp Frankfurter (1489):
"A new explanation of the word Calembourg gives H. Lorm [...] by tracing it back to the Kahlenberg near Vienna: The Kahlenberg has a meaning that has passed into all languages of the world. Few readers may be aware that the term "Calembourg", which was probably already adopted by all peoples before the German had devised the "joke" for the fact that "Calembourg" is nothing other than Kahlenberg. In the most luxuriant heyday of the Middle Ages, a merry hermit lived on the Kahlenberg, pious and exuberant, at the same time father and court jester in one person, Neidhart, called the fox . With his taunts and jokes he was mainly aiming at the farmers, who came close to him alone, which is why he had to put up with the constant nickname “peasant enemy”. His roguish pranks and witty ideas were told all over the world and called them Kahlenberg (Calembourg) for short. The French transformation of the word was due to the fact that even then, among all peoples, the French were most susceptible to this kind of joke. "
The French word calembour (play on words, lazy joke) can, however, also go back to a Parisian pharmacist of the same name or - more likely - to Count Calemberg, whose poor French at the court of Louis XV. resulted in frequent mix-ups.
The German authors who also became famous for their puns include Robert Gernhardt ("Why don't you form a sentence with 'rudiment'! Oh Lieschen, be happy again, the rudiment isn't that way!") And Heinz Erhardt .
Others
At the radio station Bayern 3 , joke calls are sent by Karl Auer from Rotthalmünster , where he makes phone calls to a wide variety of offices ( authorities , shops , hotlines , etc.). A play on words usually forms the basis. The caller Karl Auer is spoken by the comedian Markus Walsch .
The Cartoon - column of the subscriber Tetsche the star was entitled News from Kalau.
Examples
- No matter how many CDs you have, Carl Benz had Mercedes.
- No matter how close you are, Goethe was a poet.
- No matter how stupid you are, Dover is across from Calais.
- A barber shop called "Kamm in".
literature
- Winfried Thomsen: Radikalauer , Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1981, ISBN 3-8218-1902-2
See also
Web links
- The term Kalauer in the collection of quotations Winged words ( Memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Michael Chlebusch: From Calau to Berlin, June 4, 2005 ( Memento from June 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Richard Moderhack : The Origin of the "Kalauers", May 12, 1936 ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libausche Zeitung № 120 of May 28, 1883, p. 2, column "Vermischtes", (Zur Geschichte des Calembourgs.) ( Digitized in the "Digital Library" of the LNB ).
- ^ Telephone pranks - Karl Auer. (No longer available online.) Www.br-online.de, 2015, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; Retrieved July 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Auer, Karl von den "Löwen" - on the line. Retrieved May 1, 2017 .