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Klapsmühle , also Klapskiste , pats for short , is a colloquial term of the 20th century for a psychiatric clinic . The Duden describes the use as "casual".

Meaning and origin

The phrase have a slap has been in use since the 19th century and means that someone has been hit in the head , which has damaged the brain . Mühle alludes to the intensive treatment of patients and to descriptions of how crazy for the insane . The compound is proven as a folding mill in the language of the soldiers of the First World War . Crews and NCOs used it to refer to the psychiatric department of a hospital . Officers previously named the Kaiser Wilhelm Heilanstalt in Wiesbaden Heilsmühle .

distribution

The writer Alfred Döblin , himself a neurologist , served in military hospitals during the First World War and spread the term Klapsmühle in 1929 with his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz . Hans Fallada , who was admitted to a psychiatric clinic in 1911 after attempting suicide , included him in his novels Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben from 1931 and Who once eats from a tin bowl from 1934. Trübner Dictionary, named in 1941 as evidence only one place in the NS - satirical magazine The nettle of 1937: "Are most of nuthouse, Circle cancer manure ?"

Web links

Wiktionary: Klapsmühle  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Duden. The large dictionary of the German language in 10 volumes. Vol. 5, Mannheim 1999, p. 2128 sv Klapsmühle
  2. Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of the proverbial sayings. Freiburg 1994, Vol. 3, p. 851 sv Klaps
  3. Otto Maußer: German soldier language. Their structure and their problems. Strasbourg 1917, p. 59
  4. ^ Paul Horn: German soldier language. 2nd edition Gießen 1905, p. 128
  5. ^ Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz. The story of Franz Biberkopf. Berlin 1929, p. 109
  6. after Hans Fallada: farmers, bigwigs and bombs. Dresden 1938, p. 184
  7. Hans Fallada: Whoever eats from a tin bowl. Berlin 1934, p. 245 ff.
  8. Die Brennessel , Vol. 7 (1937), p. 386, quoted from: Trübners German Dictionary. Vol. 4, Berlin 1943, p. 160 sv klappen ; the delivery 30–33 barely to Lage was from 1941.