Toilet

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Toilets on a toilet door in Zaragoza , Spain

A toilet spell is a special form of graffiti that is mainly found on the inner walls of public toilets . One also speaks of Klograffiti , Toilet Graffiti , Latrinalia or Kloesie .

Toilet sayings are written with pencil, ballpoint pen or felt-tip pen or scratched with sharp objects. Also Condom vending machines are often provided with spells. Toilet sayings can contain all sorts of content: from the desire for sex contact, obscene or humorous drawings and nonsense poems to mathematical formulas - depending on the location of the toilet - you can find many forms of toilet graffiti. These doodles are mostly very short-lived because public toilets are cleaned regularly .

In a legal sense, putting up a toilet on someone else's toilet can, under certain conditions, constitute damage to property and therefore be punishable by law.

research

Since these are written or graphic traces of human communication , toilets can also be assigned to literature in the broadest sense . In any case, they are part of human written culture . As part of the living environment , they document everyday language use . Their history is as old as human civilization; Ancient latrinalia have also been found during archaeological excavations ( see public facilities ), for example in Pompeii .

Klograffiti are also the subject of scientific studies, as they can say a lot about the atmosphere in an institution or more generally about the human need for communication. The study of klograffiti can be the subject of cultural studies , for example in sociolinguistics , communication studies , sex research and psychology , but also image studies . The Viennese Norbert Siegl has made a name for himself in research.

The first scientific work on this topic was published between 1904 and 1913 in the journal Anthropophyteia - yearbooks for ethnological, folkloric and cultural-historical sex research. The journal's research team included sex researchers Iwan Bloch and Sigmund Freud .

Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre documents in his book entries in guest books , toilets, wall scribbles in lookout towers, prison cells and other ephemeral written traces of civilization. He cites Walter Kempowski's multi-volume documentary project Das Echolot and the theoretician of everyday culture Ulf Poschardt .

Graffiti research deals, among other things, with the gender-specific difference within what is written. The aspect of anonymity also plays a role in the research. Both Norbert Siegl and his colleague Siegfried Müller analyzed toilet graffiti at universities, Siegl in 1992 at the University of Vienna , Müller in the 1980s at the University of Bielefeld .

Pop Culture

Most of the editions of The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet album show a replica of a toilet wall with graffiti, the most striking of which is the name of the band.

The website of the band Elsterglanz shows a toilet door with typical toilet sayings. Some sayings are provided with links to the individual contents of the page.

literature

  • Norbert Siegl: Gender-specific differences in terms of frequency and thematic content in toilet graffiti . Thiel, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-923548-78-8 (also diploma thesis at the University of Vienna 1992).
  • Norbert Siegl: Graffiti by women and men. The basic work of toilet graffiti research . graffiti-edition, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-901927-05-0 .
  • Norbert Siegl: Communication in the toilet. Graffiti by women and men. Döcker, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-8511-5178-X .
  • Detlev Kraack, Peter Lingens: Bibliography on historical graffiti between antiquity and modernity , Medium Aevum Quotidianum, Krems 2001, ISBN 3-901094-14-8 .
  • Peter Kreuzer: The graffiti lexicon wall art from A to Z , Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-35068-5 .
  • Siegfried Müller: Graffiti - Tattooed Walls , AJZ, Bielefeld, 1985, ISBN 3-921680-44-1 .
  • Susanne Schaefer-Wiery, Norbert Siegl (Ed.): The Graffiti Reader Essays by international experts on the cultural phenomenon of graffiti . Institute for Graffiti Research / Graffiti Edition, Vienna, 2009, ISBN 978-3-901927-19-5 .
  • Christiane Stumpf: Toilet Graffiti - Different Communication Behavior of Men and Women , Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-62603-0 .
  • Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre: Fixed-value memory of the control company (Remix 2) . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-462-03382-4 .

Material collections

  • A. Bernd Abel (Ed.): 166 funny toilet sayings . Norderstedt, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8370-0614-8 .
  • A. Bernd Abel (Hrsg.): The funny guest book for the toilet - for enjoyable meetings and flashes of inspiration . ISBN 978-3-8370-1453-2 .
  • Bernd Thomson (Ed.): Pissing is power: new toilet sayings . Heyne, Munich 1986, ISBN 978-3-453-02305-5 .
  • Bernd Thomson (ed.): Haste something, piss something: toilet sayings . Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-453-02143-3 .
  • Simon Graston (Ed.): Wendeklo: the best toilet sayings for German unification . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-8218-3538-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maria-Antonia Gerstmeyer: "Klosprüche are snapshots of an interesting mind". In: welt.de . December 9, 2017. Retrieved December 9, 2017 .
  2. ^ Harald Beck - Graffiti, Stuttgart, 2004
  3. ↑ Norbert Siegl: The topics of graffiti research . Vienna 2000, p. 15.
  4. ↑ Norbert Siegl: The topics of graffiti research. Vienna 2000.
  5. ^ Siegfried Müller: Graffiti - tattooed walls. Bielefeld 1985.
  6. ↑ Richie Unterberger: Beggars Banquet - The Rolling Stones , accessed January 17, 2013.
  7. ↑ Elsterglanz: http://www.elsterglanz-dieband.com/ , accessed on March 23, 2014.

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