Pot foundry
The terms can foundry and can pourers denote talkative politicization without much expertise. A kettle maker is a regular politician or political gossip.
Originally, the word "jug caster" referred to a pewter caster , because of the activities in this trade, jug production was particularly important. The transferred meaning is rooted in the comedy “ The Political Kannengießer ” ( Den politiske Kandestøber , first performance in Copenhagen in 1722) by the Danish-Norwegian playwright Ludvig Holberg , which is about a Hamburg pewter caster who makes great political speeches with a limited mind. In this sense, the word was common in the 19th century. In the 20th century it was largely superseded by terms such as “Stammtisch slogans”.
supporting documents
“The widespread use of beer is to be deplored. It makes you stupid, lazy and impotent. It is to blame for the democratic pot foundry to which they sit together. A good grain brandy would be preferable. "
"It is the fault of the undecided, limp, energetic Frankfurt National Assembly if its resolutions are such that it is difficult to say anything else about them than mere pot-making."
“These beer houses, along with the coffee houses, are the actual temples of political pot foundries. The people who visit them seem to know something about the mood of the cabinets, and the more they get involved in the arbitration of the great world trade, the less they suspect it. "
“... only one thing was fatal. According to real Berlin custom and custom, a glass was not served for each guest [...], but the glass was in the middle of the table and everyone who felt animated [...] took the glass with his thumb on the inside wall , picked it up, drank, and put it back in its place. In this way, each of the guests knew where to start when drinking, it was the features of the different thumbs [...] a way that, thank God, has disappeared, but also the absolute cosiness and above all the most delightful jug casting that really did that Picture of the little Berliner who wanted to be big. [...] what was not nailed down, what was not politicized, what was not better known. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Vol. 13, Mannheim a. a. 1975, p. 398.
- ↑ Kannengieszer . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : German Dictionary . Hirzel, Leipzig 1854–1961 ( woerterbuchnetz.de , University of Trier).
- ^ Ludwig Holberg: The political jug founder in the Gutenberg-DE project
- ↑ Source of quotations ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.07 MB)
- ↑ Emil Thomas: Oldest, Very Oldest . Bruno Cassierer publisher, Berlin. In: Hans Ostwald: The Urberliner. New episode. Paul Franke Verlag, Berlin 1928. In the further course of the book selection, an example of jug-making between the court actor Fritz Devrient from Wiesbaden, the actor Rudolf Lange from Karlsruhe, the Prussian court actor Rütling and craftsmen for the Italian war of 1859 is described.
