Course shadow

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The term “ Kurschatten ” refers to a person with whom close contact is established during a cure - usually from another spa guest. It implies eroticism , but the resulting relationship can also remain platonic .

History and present

You sit at the same table over dinner, do common daytime activities, meet up and possibly go dancing in the evening . Usually such a ratio only lasts for the length of the spa stay or at most a few weeks or months longer. In some cases, however, long-term friendships , relationships or marriages develop from this .

"The Kurschatten sweetened the lonely stay, it is a reason for jokes, it founded marriages, but also destroyed them," says the flyer for the Bad Schwalbacher (hiking) exhibition. The catalog published for this purpose gives an insight into the moral history of the spa and bathing system from the 14th century and above all illuminates the relationships between spa guests in later epochs.

The constellation of a spa stay is important: the distance from home, from family and work, the different environment, the temporary detachment from possible private and professional burdens, the easier contact with other people with sometimes similar problems, the opportunity to express oneself to start a new section and much more.

resonance

The subject of Kurschatten has also found its way into literature , for example in Thomas Mann's Tristan , Felix Krull and Zauberberg . In addition to numerous pictorial representations, especially on joke postcards and in caricatures , there is also a plastic treatment of the topic in the form of the Kurschattenbrunnen in Bad Wildungen .

The Pschyrembel dictionary of naturopathy and alternative healing methods took the term into its reference work in 2006 as a bogus lexicon article (nihil article). It was said there that the spa shadow was "recognized by conventional medicine as a natural means of promoting the success of the spa".

literature

  • Martin Anger: About dealing with course shadows. Cheerful bathing breviary . Sanssouci , Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-7254-0359-7 .
  • Paul Bernhard: The secret relationship of the Kurschatten . In: Praxis der Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik (1991) 36: 104–112 copy online
  • Martina Bleymehl-Eiler: The Kurschatten - a taboo viewed in light . Exhibition catalog of the Kur-Stadt-Apothekenmuseum Foundation, Bad Schwalbach 2007, DNB 1053316666 .
  • Ingeborg Buddenböhmer: Kurbrunnen and Kurschatten: Experiences in a bathing resort , Salzer, Heilbronn 1987, ISBN 3-7936-0481-0 (= Salzer's small series , volume 122).
  • Catherine C. Fraser, Dierk O. Hoffmann: Pop Culture Germany! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle . Abc Clio, Santa Barbara, CL 2006, ISBN 978-1-85109-738-8 , pp. 74-75 ( limited online version in Google Book Search - USA )
  • Astrid Hess: Der Kurschatten: a temporary adventure Shaker Media, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86858-169-0 .
  • Fritz Hofmann: Kurschatten. Stories . Structure , Berlin / Weimar 1981, DNB 820091235 .
  • Gerhard Mentzel: The Kurschattten . In: Gerhard Mentzel (Ed.): The psychosomatic health clinic. Verlag für Med. Psychologie im Verl. Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, Göttingen, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3525457022
  • Kurt Möller: About spa shadows and other spa pleasures . Verlag Neue Literatur, Jena / Plauen / Quedlinburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-934141-52-0 .
  • Peter Ziegler: Looking for course shadows. Snapshots from a spa town , Hart, Volkach 1978, ISBN 3-921968-00-3 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Kurschatten  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Liesemer : Von Steinläusen und Kurschatten on Spiegel Online from March 7, 2010, accessed on November 9, 2016
  2. ↑ Concept: Martina Bleymehl-Eiler, Head of the Kur - Stadt- Apothekenmuseum Bad Schwalbach, with students from the Department of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Mainz : Katharina Greuel, Stephan Müller, Carina Schmidt, Marlene König and Yasmin Krammel.