Krambambuli (drink)
Krambambuli (also: Crambambuli) is a spirit with an intense red color, consisting of brandy and extracts of juniper berries. The name Krambambuli is made up of the word Krandewitt (crane wood , another name for juniper) and the red word Blamp (alcoholic drink).
Krambambuli was originally in the liquor factory of Isaac Wedel links and Eydam Dirck Hekker in Gdansk ( see also: The salmon to Gdansk ) was prepared from and the even more famous Danziger Goldwasser came. Later both products were produced and sold by the Gräflich von Hardenberg'schen Kornbrennerei .
Krambambuli in poetry and song
Krambambuli is the title of a student song that was written in 1745 by Christoph Friedrich Wedekind under the pseudonym Crescentius Coromandel. The song has been rewritten and expanded several times, including a version with over 100 stanzas. A variant was finally included in the Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch , the most important collection of student songs. In fraternities , the designation since the 19th century Krambambuli due to the similarity in color for Feuerzangenbowle , mulled wine and other wine based drinks used.
Krambambuli in literature
The story Krambambuli by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is well-known , in which a dog is sold or acquired for twelve bottles of Danzig cherry brandy. The buyer, a hunter, names the dog after this drink. The story has been filmed several times .
literature
- Otto Deneke: Koromandel-Wedekind. Göttingen ancillary lessons, Göttingen, 1922.
- Iwan Durrer: Krambambuli. Origin and varieties of a student song. In: Frank Mangelsdorf: Then and Now . Volume 44, Culturcon, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3941092-44-0 , pp. 33-50.
- Max Friedländer: News about the Krambambuli song. In: Journal for Folklore, New Series, Volume II, Issue 1/2, Leipzig 1889/90, p. 93 ff.
- Herbert Kater: The Krambambuli song of the Koromandel Wedekind. In: Einst und Jetzt, Volume 6, 1961, p. 24 ff.
- Raimund Lang: Mystical Fire. In: Intonas, Vienna 1992, p. 111 ff.
- Raimund Lang: The third part of the Krambambuli song ; ed. from KöStV Borussia in MKV, Vienna 2004; 2nd edition self-published, Tangstedt 2013.
Web links
- Krambambuli in Russian ( Fraternitas Arctica in Riga)
- Krambambuli - recipes, ceremonial and history