cripple
The term cripple originally referred to a person who was physiologically permanently disabled in their mobility . Someone who is missing limbs from birth or due to external influences is also called crippled.
etymology
The term Krüppel in German comes from the Middle Low German kröpel 'the crooked', which is an inherited word from the Old Saxon krupil and ultimately to a reconstructed ancient Germanic root * krupilaz , 'tending to creep, cripple'. This noun can be found in many Germanic languages, e.g. B. in English cripple or Icelandic kryppill .
The related verb * kreupaną 'turn, curve, crawl' can only be traced in German at dialect level ( e.g. Ripuarian kruffe 'creep, creep'), but was still represented in Middle High German as kriefen . It exists among other things in English to creep and Dutch kruipen fort.
Today's meaning
The word cripple was found to be value-neutral until the 20th century in terms such as cripple home, full cripple home, cripple sanatorium, cripple welfare and cripple welfare law. Until the time of National Socialism , in which the word " limbless person " in place of "cripple" for an accident, injury or wounding occurred physically disabled, to organizations, journals and conferences dedicated to the fight against Krüppeltums and cripple care (in the sense of orthopedic treatment ).
The word “cripple” is understood as a swear word due to the following deterioration in meaning , which not only identifies a physical or mental handicap, but also ascribes such a handicap to a person who is unpopular by means of this insult . The cripple movement confidently uses this word in the sense of a Geusen word : Since the cripple tribunal in Dortmund on December 13, 1981, one of the most important protest actions of the autonomous German disability movement (in confrontation with the established disability aid ) against the international year of the disabled in 1981 , Against human rights violations in nursing homes , in workshops for the disabled and in psychiatry, as well as against deficiencies in local public transport, a rethink began in Germany as well. Between 1980 and 1985 the “Krüppel-Zeitung”, a magazine for the disabled movement, was published.
See also
literature
- Doris Schwarzmann-Schafhauser: Cripple homes. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 810 f.
Web links
- Crippling movement
- Cripple out of the sack Article in the magazine Mondkalb , Berlin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cripple Tribunal 1981 + 20 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. , accessed January 2, 2012
- ↑ see proof of the newspaper in the German National Library under GND 7695385-3
