Lantern running

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Martinszug of a primary school in Cologne (2017)
Evening on the Baltic Sea , painting by Ernst Oppler (around 1920)

Lantern running is an autumn custom in which children sing with a lantern from house to house after dark or take part in a lantern parade through the streets.

Especially in Catholic regions there are St. Martin's parades with lanterns on the day of St. Martin of Tours . In some Protestant regions, martin singing on the name day of the reformer Martin Luther is celebrated on November 10th (Luther's birthday). In the Alemannic area the custom of the robe lights is also widespread.

Running the lantern is widespread in many regions and is often directly related to the customs around St. Martin's Day on November 11th. Regionally, there are mostly different variants, in all variants songs like I go with my lantern are sung during the parades . Organizational reasons sometimes lead to slight postponements around 10/11. November.

In some regions, the lantern running takes place independently of November 10 or 11 as a lantern parade in different versions. These range from small groups in a kindergarten to the lantern parades organized by municipalities, associations or other institutions, which can be accompanied by a marching band . Special songs are sung during the parade.

The lanterns and Räbelichters are often made by the children themselves. Nevertheless, lanterns or lanterns from the trade are also used in many places , which are now often equipped with an electric lamp instead of a conventional candle .

Lantern songs

In some of the songs sung today while running the lantern, the origin of the customs of Martini Day is still recognizable, for example in the dialect of Matten for Martin . Clear songs concerning St. Bishop Martin von Tours can be found in the article Martinssingen , those related to Martin Luther in the article Martinssingen .

There is a song by Rolf Zuckowski "Come on, we want to run a lantern".

Supraregional

I go with my lantern
I go with my lantern
and my lantern with me.
Up there the stars shine
and down there we shine.
Lantern light,
don't go out for me!
rabimmel, rabammel, rabum.
(also: labimmel, labammel, labum)

I go with my lantern
and my lantern with me.
Up there the stars shine
and down there we shine.
My light is off,
I'm going home.
rabimmel, rabammel, rabum.
Before 1913

Lantern, lantern
lantern, lantern,
sun, moon and stars,
burn on my light,
burn on my light,
but not my dear lantern.
DVA A 59 488 (around 1875) and A 95 675 (around 1877)

A rich man lives here A rich man
lives here
who can give us a lot.
He should give a lot, he
should live long.
He shall die
blessedly, acquire the kingdom of heaven.
(Let us not stand so long, long,
because we want to go on, go
on, go on.)

(If the gifts are missing, they sing :)
Dat Hus, dat is op eene Penn,
de Gizzhals de sit medde drenn!

(Called out :)
Gizzhals! - Gizzhals! - Gizzhals!
From Barmen and Baumberg

Rhineland

Loop, Möller, Loop
Sach Jong, stop mech dat Päerd one,
loop, Möller, loop!
I mott ens still de Müehle jonn,
loop, Möller, loop!

Refrain:
How you löpps, how you löpps,
vollemente, how you löpps
Schopp un Schüer överm Hoop,
loop, Möller, loop

He breng I Ösch de Haversack, loop ...
 Dä should Ör mix ens mahle strack, loop ...
chorus
Dat Koare is spread out, loop ...
Dat hott Ör misch jo, t 'last geseit,
refrain
Dör Bockert de kömp tomorrow, loop ...
De öß before osse Verkersdroag, loop ...
refrain
from Mönchengladbach

Altmark

Song 1
I'm a poor king
don't give me too little,
don't let me stand too long,
because I have to go on
to the next door,
there are apples and pears,
apples and pears taste good,
I'll stick them in my sugar loaf.

Song 2
Martins, Martins Fechelchen
with sevenfold golden spoons,
give us something and let's go
to the next door, the next door
is not far,
apple and pears are already ripe,
oh dear King,
don't give us too little,
let's not stand too long
because we want to go further.

Lower Saxony

Beern , Low German for pears, has been reinterpreted as berries in High German .

Low German
Matten Matten Meeren,
Appel and a herring
Young Fru, Young Fru,
lot mi net too long stohn
ik still have to go all the way to Kölle gohn -
Kölle is a big city
there
everyone gives a lot of love, what, what, what, to everyone's little cheeks.
Mi uk, mi uk, mi uk.


Matten Matten Mr.
Matten Matten Mr.,
the apples and the berries,
I like them so much.
Let's not stand that long,
because we want to go
on to Bremen, to Bremen,
Bremen is a beautiful city
, everyone gives something.

Bacon and ham,
and something else to drink,
and a glass of wine,
then we'll go home again.

Orally transmitted from Celle, around 1970

Mats Mats Seas
Mats Mats Seas,
the apples and the berries.
Let's not stand that long,
we still want to go to Bremen -
Bremen is a big city and
everyone gives something.
Big and small,
otherwise they'll start crying.

Matten Matten Seas,
the apples and the berries,
we like to eat them so much.
Let's not stand so long
on the cold stones,
because we want to go further -
to Bremen - to Bremen
Because Bremen is a big city, so
all children get something.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martini, Martinstag and Sünnermarten , ostfriesland.de, accessed on October 14, 2016
  2. ↑ Tobias Widmaier: I go with my lantern (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  3. ^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of children's songs. Schott, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-254-08370-8 , p. 146.
  4. ^ Karl Simrock , Heinrich Düntzer : Martinslieder. Marcus, Bonn 1846, p. 35 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Gripsch song. (No longer available online.) Martins Committee 1909 Baumberg eV, archived from the original on October 16, 2015 ; accessed on November 11, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.martins-komitee.de

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