Carnival session

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Carnival sessions , also carnival campaigns , carnival sessions or carnival campaigns are names for the carnival or carnival time .

Concept and scope

The term “carnival session ” is derived from the Latin sessio “session”, “session period” (from sedere “to sit”). It is widespread in the Rhenish carnival , but is also used sporadically in other regions. In the Mainz Carnival , the southernmost region of the Rhenish Carnival, one speaks of the "Carnival campaign" in alignment with neighboring Hessian and Rhenish Hessian regions.

In 1823 the “ Festordnende Komitee ” was founded in Cologne to give the previously disordered Carnival in Cologne a new direction and new content. The main official purpose when it was founded was that the “once so famous Cologne Carnival ... should be renewed and celebrated by a general mask procession”, but in reality only the hitherto unbridled and anarchic carnival bustle in the streets should be controlled and orderly as well bourgeois classes (from whose midst the committee members mostly come from then and now) are given an appropriate participation in the carnival celebrations. The organization of this carnival procession was up to the “small or funny council”; all paying members of the committee formed the "Grand Council", which in the following years met regularly for "general assemblies", which were called "committee meetings" from 1833 onwards. The main purpose of these meetings was to prepare the carnival procession. They began on New Year's Day or Epiphany and took place every Sunday from six to ten in the evening until Shrovetide Sunday. There was music, drinks, serious and humorous speeches on the "fool's chair", a president surrounded by councilors, medals and, from 1827, the custom of wearing the same caps: "Same brothers, same caps!" In addition, large balls developed. The time of these sessions was already called "session" back then.

In the course of the 20th century, the beginning of the carnival season moved forward. Today is the " Eleventh in Eleventh " start of the carnival session. It ends on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday ("Fastnacht").

procedure

A carnival session has a local motto, which is often announced towards the end of one session for the next, for example at a prince's breakfast / prince's meal on Carnival Tuesday , where the carnivalists meet with representatives from politics. For the duration of a session, depending on local tradition, usually a carnival prince, more rarely a prince couple or a “ triumvirate ” consisting of “prince”, “farmer” and “virgin” officiate .

The chronological sequence of customs today has three phases:

  • The session begins on November 11th , the eleventh in the eleventh , with the proclamation of the carnival and the official presentation of the new triumvirate or the couple of princes who officiate in the session. Meetings only take place very sporadically until the end of the year.
  • From the beginning of January, the proclamation of princes and the session carnival with carnival sessions and ( mask ) balls will follow .
  • The third phase, the street carnival, begins with Weiberfastnacht on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. In the restaurants there is "carnival hustle and bustle", the streetscape in the inner cities of many Rhenish cities is dominated by disguised fools . Until Tuesday before Ash Wednesday go anywhere the carnival parades , focusing on Carnival Sunday and the Rose Monday . In some places, the nubble burning on Tuesday evening or at midnight is the end of the session.

Ash Wednesday

Even after the end of the session, in some places the carnivalists meet again on Ash Wednesday for a joint fish meal, for a ritual “ wallet washing ” or only now to burn the nubbel.

Termination

The timing and length of a carnival session depend on the date of Ash Wednesday. This is calculated according to the Easter formula of the movable Easter festival . After that, Ash Wednesday is on the 46th day before Easter Sunday. The earliest possible Ash Wednesday date is February 4th, the latest possible is March 10th. So there are very short and very long sessions.

Schedule overview

year Women's Shrovetide Carnival Sunday Carnival Monday Ash Wednesday
2015 February 12th February 15th February 16 February 18
2016 February 4th February 7th February 8 February 10th
2017 February 23 February 26th 27th of February 1st March
2018 February 8 February 11th February 12th 14th of February
2019 February 28 3 March 4th of March 6th March
2020 20. February February 23 February 24th February 26th
2021 February 11th 14th of February February 15th February 17th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language. 23rd edition, Berlin-New York 1999, p. 760.
  2. ↑ Examples: Hiltrup (Westphalia) , Liesen (Rothaargebirge) , Mingerode (Eichsfeld) .
  3. ↑ Examples: Frankfurt am Main  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wiesbaden  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Rülzheim ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2013 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. , Wöllstein ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.grosser-rat.de  @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesbadener-kurier.de   @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.karneval-ruelzheim.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gemeinde-woellstein.de
  4. ↑ Mainz warms up for carnival campaign accessed on February 21, 2013
  5. ^ Motto of the Mainz carnival campaign 2013, accessed on February 21, 2013
  6. ↑ Peter Fuchs, Max Leo Schwering: Cologne Carnival. On the cultural history of Carnival. Volume 1, Greven Verlag, Cologne 1972, pp. 54-75 ISBN 3-7743-0089-5 .
  7. ↑ Manfred Becker-Huberti : Celebrations, festivals, seasons. Living customs all year round. Herder-Verlag, Freiburg-Basel-Wien 2001, p. 203, ISBN 3-451-27702-6 .
  8. ^ A b Alois Döring: Rhenish customs through the year , publication by the LVR Office for Rhenish Regional Studies, Greven Verlag Cologne 2006, p. 91f. ISBN 3-7743-0377-0 .
  9. ↑ Fastelovend em Blot, he and am Zuckerhot on rundschau-online.de v. February 21, 2012 , accessed again on February 21, 2013
  10. ↑ http://blip.tv/leverkusen/nubbelverbrnung-langversion-16-02-2010-3248025  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / blip.tv  
  11. ^ Wallet washing out in Meckenheim: 1. Merl 2000 Carnival Society ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kgm-merl.de
  12. ↑ Ash Wednesday in karneval.de, published by the Kreissparkasse Köln .

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