Lantern running
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 Lantern, lantern |
A rich man lives here A rich man |
Rhineland
Loop, Möller, Loop |
Altmark
Song 1 |
Song 2 |
Lower Saxony
Beern , Low German for pears, has been reinterpreted as berries in High German .
Low German
Orally transmitted from Celle, around 1970 |
Mats Mats Seas |
- Nikolauslauf (Bremen custom)
- Kilbesingen
- Halloween
- Glowesabend (Klobesabend), Kassel area
Ecumenical St. Martin's procession in Flensburg (November 10, 2013)
St. Martin's train in downtown Flensburg in 2013 with musical accompaniment by the city's city blowers
Actor of Saint Martin with horse (Flensburg 2013)
Martinszug in Duisburg-Mündelheim 2007
literature
- Gerlinde Haid : lantern song. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martini, Martinstag and Sünnermarten , ostfriesland.de, accessed on October 14, 2016
- ↑ Tobias Widmaier: I go with my lantern (2007). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
- ^ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : The book of children's songs. Schott, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-254-08370-8 , p. 146.
- ^ Karl Simrock , Heinrich Düntzer : Martinslieder. Marcus, Bonn 1846, p. 35 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- ↑ 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.