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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 ?"
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden. The large dictionary of the German language in 10 volumes. Vol. 5, Mannheim 1999, p. 2128 sv Klapsmühle
- ↑ Lutz Röhrich: Lexicon of the proverbial sayings. Freiburg 1994, Vol. 3, p. 851 sv Klaps
- ↑ Otto Maußer: German soldier language. Their structure and their problems. Strasbourg 1917, p. 59
- ^ Paul Horn: German soldier language. 2nd edition Gießen 1905, p. 128
- ^ Alfred Döblin: Berlin Alexanderplatz. The story of Franz Biberkopf. Berlin 1929, p. 109
- ↑ after Hans Fallada: farmers, bigwigs and bombs. Dresden 1938, p. 184
- ↑ Hans Fallada: Whoever eats from a tin bowl. Berlin 1934, p. 245 ff.
- ↑ 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.