Crowing angle
Krähwinkel is a place name that literally stands for small-town, bourgeois narrowness without reference to any of the specific places of this name.
Emergence
In the spelling Krehwinkel , the word was already used in this sense by Jean Paul in his satire The secret lament of the present men (1801), it was then widely used in the spelling Krähwinkel through August von Kotzebue's comedy Die deutscher Kleinstädter (1802), whose In the following years, spelling also joined Jean Paul in other works.
Similar fictional places
- Back patting
- Schilda (and his shield citizens )
Uses in literature and film
In chronological order:
- Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann : Schill or the Declamatorium in Krähwinkel (1812)
- Adolf Bäuerle : The false prima donna in Krähwinkel (1818)
- Heinrich Heine : Memories from Krähwinkel's Horrible Days (1834/1835)
- Johann Nestroy : Freedom in Krähwinkel (1848)
- Thomas Mann : Lucky (1904)
- Kurt Tucholsky : "The influence of Krähwinkel has kept German satire within its poor limits." In: What is allowed to satire? (1919)
- Leon Trotsky to Tsarina Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt : "Having risen from her crow's corner to the heights of Byzantine despotism, she did not want to descend from them at any price." (1930, History of the Russian Revolution, Volume 1)
- Albert Einstein : "Princeton is a wonderful piece of earth and, at the same time, an incredibly funny, ceremonial crow's corner of tiny, stilted demigods." In: Letter to Elisabeth Gabriele in Bavaria (November 20, 1933)
- With us in Krähwinkel : Czech film by Miroslav Cikán (1935) with the actress Zdeňka Baldová in the leading role
- Columbus discovers Krähwinkel : German film (1954)
- Uwe Friesel : Between all the chairs or should you keep your mouth shut at Krähwinkel? (2015)
literature
- Duden , Volume 7: The dictionary of origin. Etymology of the German Language , ed. from the Duden editorial team. 4., rework. Edition. Dudenverlag, Mannheim [a. a.] 2007, p. 448
- Crowing angle. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 1975 f . ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander: German Proverbs Lexicon . Volume 2. Leipzig 1867. Reprinted by Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1987, Sp. 1570. ( woerterbuchnetz.de )
- Crowing angle . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 6, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1906, p. 558 .
Web links
Commons : Krähwinkel - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Schröder: Krähwinkel and consorts . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 17, 1929, pp. 24–35
- ↑ Jean Paul: Works , Volume 6, ed. by Norbert Miller. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 1303 to p. 841.5
- ↑ What is allowed to satire text at the Kurt Tucholsky Society
- ↑ https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/trotzki/1930/grr/b1-kap04.htm
- ↑ Here in Krähwinkel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Columbus discovers Krähwinkel in the Internet Movie Database (English)