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Flag of the seven upright ones

The flag of the seven upright ones is a short story from the Zurich novellas by the poet Gottfried Keller . The story is about seven honest old artisans who founded a society in order to be able to maintain their principles. The seven upright men are republican-minded master craftsmen who are united by the hatred of the aristocracy and priests and who meet twice a week in the tavern to politicize: the seven upright men decide to march in the following summer as a flag-registering group at the federal free shooting in 1849. The shooting festival is approaching, the flag and the trophy are ready, but nobody dares to give the speech. After some confusion, everything comes to a happy end.

The title of the story is often quoted to identify a smaller group of people who, unlike others, have stuck to something for a long time.

Elevator to the scaffold

Elevator to the scaffold (French: " Ascenseur pour l'échafaud ") is a French crime film by Louis Malle from 1958.

Former officer Julien Tavernier enters his boss's office with the help of a throwing anchor and a rope and kills him in cold blood. Then he arranges the act as suicide. When he is about to drive away in the car, he discovers that he has made a mistake because the rope is still dangling on the facade of the company building. He rushes back into the building and takes the elevator up. At this moment, however, the caretaker switches off the electricity and closes the building from the outside. Tavernier is stuck.

Facts, facts, facts.

Bus with the slogan on the front

This slogan, with which the editor-in-chief Helmut Markwort advertises his news magazine Focus , originally comes from the US film producer Samuel Goldwyn , who said in connection with advertising:

" That is the kind of ad I like. Facts, facts, facts. "

“ That's the kind of advertising I like. Facts, facts, facts. "

Markwort's employee instruction in the commercials with pictures from Focus editorial meetings is one of the most famous slogans in Germany. Nevertheless, it was replaced in 2008 by the slogan “ Facts for your future ”. This is to underline the concept that Focus offers its readers important background information with usefulness for the immediate future.

Markwort's statement “ Facts, facts, facts. And think of the reader! "Has also been parodied to" facts, facts, facts. And think about the edition! “The emphasis on facts instead of opinion is intended to express that the Focus informs its readers more neutrally and factually than Der Spiegel .

Wrong brothers

The apostle Paul lists the false brothers last among the many dangers he encountered on his missionary journeys:

“ I have traveled often, I have been in danger from the rivers, in danger from the murderers, in danger among the Jews, in danger among the heathen, in danger in the cities, in danger in the desert, in danger at sea , in danger among the false brothers; "

In linguistics today, a false brother is understood as a paronym - in analogy to the similar false friend that refers to foreign languages : a word that can be confused within a language and its dialects:

• the doctor who by no means has to be a doctor

Austria is repeatedly confused with Australia , including by US President George W. Bush , who thanked Australian President John Howard for holding the OPEC summit, which is taking place in Austria:

" Thank you for being such a fine host for the Opec summit "

This confusion comes from the fact that in English - and in numerous other languages ​​- the words Austria and Australia are very similar. Even in Japanese and Chinese, the two country names are similar:

オ ー ス ト リ ア ōsutoria - オ ー ス ト ラ リ ア ōsutoraria

奥地利 aodili - 澳大利亚 ​​aodaliya

It is said of misdirected mail that arrives very late with the note " Vienna not known in Australia ". The souvenir industry takes advantage of this and prints T-shirts with the label “ No Kangaroos in Austria ”.

False prophet

The New Testament warns of the "false prophets" of the end times in several places (e.g. in the Gospel according to Mark ):

“ For false Christs and false prophets will arise who will do signs and wonders that they will also deceive the elect, if it is possible. But you watch out! "

The Old Testament already speaks of the appearance of false prophets whose commission does not come from God, but who can win large following. According to Moses in Deuteronomy 18:22 one can recognize a false prophet by the fact that what he prophesies does not occur.

A lack of modesty is also seen as a common characteristic of false prophets, because almost all biblical prophets initially described themselves as unsuitable for the task.

Various myths see the appearance of false prophets in connection with the end of the world. She knows history from times of declining cultures.

Featherless biped

The philosopher Plato had defined humans as " two-legged creatures without feathers " ( ζῷον δίπουν ἄπτερον - zōon dipoun apteron ), because they belong to the animal kingdom, walk on two legs, but have neither fur nor feathers. This definition made the Cynic Diogenes feel provoked to joke. He plucked a chicken and presented it as a human being to Plato's students:

“ That is the person of Plato! "

Plato then expanded the definition to include “ broad claws ” (toenails), because birds have nothing of the kind.

Enemy hears with.

Enemy is listening to was a propaganda slogan that was used by the Nazis from around 1938 until the end of World War II. He created a latent threat situation.

There was also a series of propaganda posters with the “Listen to the enemy” slogan. On each one a small group of people could be seen and in the background a slanted black shadow that was listening to them. There were also numerous signs on public telephones saying “Be careful when talking! Enemy hears with!"

Felix Austria

The term Felix Austria is used today to express that Austrians have a talent for happiness. It can be found for the first time on the seals of Duke Rudolf IV. 1363/64. The phrase can be found again in a distich on the marriage policy of the Habsburgs that has been attested since the Baroque period (for templates and use see there):

" Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube.
Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi diva Venus. "

“ May others wage wars, you marry happy Austria.
Because what Mars gives to others, the divine Venus gives you . "

Vacation from me

Ferien vom Ich is the title of an entertainment novel by Paul Keller that was published in 1916 and filmed several times - including 1952 - the subject of which is recovery from everyday stress in a sanatorium called Ferien vom Ich .

The story is about a US millionaire who has a heart attack while on a business trip through Germany. The attending physician advises him to relax thoroughly. He then buys a country estate and turns it into a rest home for stressed business people who stay there without luggage or company and are shielded from the outside world.

Give heel money

A woman or a man paid heel money if one wanted to break away from a marriage. It had nothing to do with the foot, but came from the word heifer for a young cow. Itis mentioned for the first timein Eike von Repgows “ Sachsenspiegel ”.

Firmly walled in the earth

Bell shape before digging in

These are the opening words of Friedrich Schiller's famous ballad Das Lied von der Glocke .

“ Firmly bricked in the earth
stands the form, made of clay.
Today the bell has to be.
Newcomers, be at hand. "

The first stanza indicates the preparatory work that the casting should now follow. The clay mold is in the dam pit and should now be filled with the metal.

The poem was part of the German educational canon for a long time and had to be learned by heart by generations of students. That is why the opening verses are particularly well known and are still often quoted today. For example, articles about public bell casting in Hattingen , about the planned demolition of the Palace of the Republic or about the supporting structures for wind turbines are headed with the words “ Solidly walled in the earth ” (or “ Solidly walled in the earth ”). But also an article about the poet himself alludes to this quote with the heading " Schiller, bricked up in the earth - attempt to revive a petrified hero ":

“ Schiller can be sorry. Walled up in the earth, solidified to bronze or stone, it adorns our parks and foyers hundreds of times and cannot defend itself. Can't get off the pedestal, dust off his coat and show the world who he really is: a revolutionary, a hippie, a rebel. "

Gather fiery coals on his head

This phrase comes from the Old Testament book of Proverbs . The quote collector Georg Büchmann writes in his Winged Words explanatory:

“ Proverbs 25, 22 is written: whoever does good to his enemy will“ heap coals on his head ”d. H. he will make his cheeks glow with shame. According to the Apostle Paul (Rom. 12, 20) we quote this word
: Gathering fiery coals on his (or: someone's) head. "

The fiery coals represent the feeling of shame that is aroused in the enemy by shaming someone through kindness.

Fiery coals were carried from house to house in biblical times. One person lit a fire in the morning, which a boy then distributed to the individual households in the form of burning coals in a clay bowl on his head.

The theologian Ernst von Dobschütz derives the phrase from the ancient Egyptian punishment, in which someone had to repent with a fork in hand and a basin full of fiery coals on their head.

Fiat iustitia et pereat mundus.

Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is said to have been the Latin motto of Emperor Ferdinand I and translated means:

“ Let justice be done, may the world perish too. "

Today the saying is mostly ironically quoted to criticize a legal conception that seeks to enforce the preservation of legal principles at all costs, even to the detriment of society. The quote does not come from the Romans, because their legal thinking was guided by the principle of cui bono ( who uses it? ).

Fin de siècle

The fin de siècle (French: "end of the century") describes the period from 1890 to 1914 with the connotation of decadence , which is seen as the inevitable result of a fertile epoch ( Belle Epoque ). The name was first mentioned in 1886 in the French magazine Le Décadent .

Although the term refers to a specifically French way of life of the time, fin de siècle is also used to denote the pan-European state of mind before the First World War.

Do you think Constanze is doing the right thing?

This question is at the end of 1927, first performed comedy The Constant Wife ( The constant woman ) of the British writer William Somerset Maugham open.

This question is also the German title of this play, in which a betrayed wife does not react as the convention requires of her. The play was filmed in 1929 under the English title Charming sinners ( Bewitching sinners ).

The quote is used today with changing names:

• " Do you think that Frau Höhler is behaving correctly? "

Finis Germaniae

Dietrich Montens: Finis Poloniae 1831

With the Latin words “ Finis Germaniae ” (“ The end of Germany ”), the German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg commented on the unrestricted submarine warfare during the First World War , which in his opinion meant the United States' safe entry into the war and the end of Germany.

This saying is probably based on the Latin " Finis Poloniae " (" The end of Poland "), which was put in the mouth of the Polish general Tadeusz Kościuszko , who got stuck in a sand hill in 1794 while on the run. There the Cossacks shot his horse in the body and wounded the back of the head himself. When he was brought back to the camp, he is said to have exclaimed:

“ Finis regni Poloniae. "

“ End of the Kingdom of Poland. "

Kościuszko later denied ever saying so.

The quote was later used for book titles:

• " Finis Germaniae. Records and observations. "(Henry Bernhard)
• " Finis Germaniae - German history since 1945. " (Georg Fülberth)

Fish have to swim.

In the Satyricon of the Roman writer Titus Petronius , the former slave and now nouveau riche host, in the parodic interlude The Trimalchio's Banquet after the fish served, urges his guests to give the wine a vigorous drink, because: “Fish must swim” (Latin: “ Pisces natare opportet ").

The translator Hilde Weiss writes about this quote in the Wiener Zeitung :

“ Not every saying is really recommendable: 'Fish have to swim', with this toast, which goes back to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, one does not go into good company. The quote comes from the 'Banquet of Trimalchio', a parody in the novel 'Satyricon'. With these words, the host, a showy, bramar-based upstart, urges his guests to consume more wine after the fish, 'in horrible drunkenness'. "

There is also a French tongue twister : Poisson sans boisson, c'est poison! (literally: fish without a drink is poison in the meaning of to fish, wine should be served ).

Fixed idea

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A fixed idea (from neo-Latin: “idea fixa” ; “fixus” = “unchangeable” ) is an unrealistic idea that cannot be dissuaded. The term was coined by the psychiatrist Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen in 1870. It is a misconception that cannot be corrected and is the result of monomania .

It is one of the meanings of the French expression Idée fixe , for which the name of Obelix's little dog is a play on words.

empty bottle

" These players were as weak as a bottle " is a phrase from the legendary press conference of the Italian soccer coach Giovanni Trapattoni on March 10, 1998, in which he expressed his anger at the behavior of the FC Bayern Munich players in broken German, and like two other expressions from this conference (“ I have finished. ” and “ What do Strunz allow ? !”), it has become commonplace.

The outburst of anger brought Trapattoni so much sympathy, however, that he was able to earn money as an advertising medium for a sparkling water system: " Don't empty the bottle ... "

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• " Klinsmann resignation because bottle is empty "
• “ Google weak like empty bottle! What do Google allow? "
• " Away from reusable: bottle empty "

Nimble as greyhounds, tough as leather and hard as croup steel

In his speech on September 14, 1935, Adolf Hitler wanted the Hitler Youth in front of 50,000 boys . So it was physical activism that was one of the primary characteristics of Hitler Youth education.

The cabaret artist Dieter Hildebrandt remembers his own time in the Hitler Youth:

“ Just like the Spartans back then, the Spartan youth, alienating us from our parents very early on. And we should be tough, like leather, hard, like croup steel and nimble like greyhounds, and that was instilled in us very early on. "

Escape to the public

This phrase goes back to a statement made by Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein in the journalist trial in 1896. With these words, the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs turned against stewards of the political police by saying:

“ If these gentlemen dare to attack the Foreign Office or high officials or me ... and I find out about it, I take refuge in public and brand this activity in public. "

On the subject of " When insiders sound the alarm - whistleblowers " it says about the current legal situation of civil servants in Germany:

“ For civil servants, escaping in public or filing a criminal complaint is an official offense. Even if an official has repeatedly expressed his differing legal opinion internally, it is forbidden to inform the press. "

Liquid bread

This term jokingly used today for beer was coined around the middle of the 17th century for the monks' fasting beer, because “liquids do not break the fast”. In addition, beer was actually considered a staple food in the Middle Ages. The low-alcohol beer was more available than milk and was therefore also given to children. Women who had recently given birth received “medicinal beer” on prescription.

Don't ask what your country can do for you ...

The sentence “ And so, my fellow Americans: don't ask what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. "(English:" And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. ") Comes from the inaugural address of US President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

Kennedy takes this idea further by saying in the next sentence:

“ My fellow citizens in the world, don't ask what America will do for you, but ask what we can do together for human freedom. "

(English: " My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. ")

Based on this quote, Gerhard Schröder said in his government statement on October 29, 2002: “ It is not possible to just say what is not possible. Let us ask ourselves what each and every one of us can do to make it work. "

Franz is the name of the Kanaille.

In Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Räuber , Karl Moor opens the letter to his friends, which his brother Franz wrote to him for his father and in which he informs him that his father has cast him out.

Roller takes the letter from the earth, and reads it.

" 'Unhappy brother!' the beginning sounds funny. 'Only recently I have to tell you that your hope has been thwarted - you should go, your father tells you, where your disgraceful acts are leading you. Also, he says, you will have no hope of ever whimpering grace at his feet if you do not want to be ready to be treated with bread and water in the lowest vault of his towers until your hair grows like eagle's feathers , and your nails become like a bird's claw. These are his own words. He orders me to close the letter. Goodbye forever! I pity you -
Franz von Moor. "

Swiss

“ A sweet brother gene! Indeed! - Is the name of the Kanaille? "

The quote wants to express that it is not the " honest " robber, but the false brother, Franz, who is the rascal. Franz Moor denounces his brother Karl, his father's darling, who is rioting as a student in far-off Leipzig, answers Karl's repentant letter brusquely without his father's knowledge, and pursues Karl's fiancé Amalia.

Kanaille means as much as villain, scoundrel. It was adopted from French ( canaille ) into German in the 17th century and comes from the Latin caniculus , a diminutive of canis (= dog).

Women come slowly but powerfully.

The saying is the title of a song by the rock group Ina Deter Band from 1986. The ambiguity of the word come , which in colloquial language also has the meaning of coming to orgasm , was used deliberately. The refrain is:

" Strong man what now
no more time to do what
women come slowly
- but powerfully "

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• “ Icelanders are coming slowly but powerfully. "(Review of a crime novel by Arnaldur Indriđason)
• “ Viruses come slowly but powerfully. "
• “ Schwyz are coming slowly but powerfully. "

Women are better diplomats.

After all, women are better diplomats is the title of a German feature film from 1941 in which the beautiful niece of a casino director in Homburg in 1848 is supposed to try to prevent the casino from being closed by order of the Frankfurt National Assembly .

She proves to be a diplomat by mediating an agreement between the Homburgers and the advancing troops. The casino is eventually converted into a porcelain factory.

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“ Women are better bureaucrats. "

“ Dogs are the better cats after all. "

“ Ants are better drivers. "

Women and children first!

“ Women and children first! “Is a historical code of conduct according to which women and children should be saved first in life-threatening situations, for example when a ship sinks.

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

This famous English line of text comes from the song Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson , which the American singer Janis Joplin had recorded a few days before her death in October 1970 and means something in German:

“ Freedom is just another word for having nothing more to lose. "

The chorus of the song in Janis Joplin's version has the following wording:

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain't free, no no
Yeah feeling good was easy Lord when he sang the blues
You know feeling good was good enough for me
Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. "

“In the end, freedom is just another word for the fact that you have nothing more to lose.
Nothing is worth nothing, but it doesn't cost anything either.
But if Bobby was singing the blues, then feeling good wasn't a problem.
And that was good enough for me. And for Bobby McGee. "

The song is about vagrancy, a popular motif in country music , which has been expanded to include a hippie feel. After Joplin's death, it reached number 1 on the pop charts in the United States.

Free but not naughty

This is the motto in Theodor Fontane's novel Der Stechlin , where it says in the 6th chapter:

" " Oh, Lorenzen, I can see that you are again at the ready with the 'patrimony of the disinherited'; Sperling, that sounds like it. But so much is correct that Krippenstapel brilliantly keeps the boys in order; How did it go today in quick succession when I took the close-cropped Schwarzkopp for my exam, and how tight were the boys and how well mannered when we saw them again after an hour in Globsow. How they played so happily and yet with respect in everything. 'Free, but not cheeky', that's my sentence. " "

Free path for the able!

Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg

This is a quote from a speech in the Reichstag given by the then Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg on September 28, 1916. Bethmann Hollweg said literally:

“A clear path for all capable, that is our motto. "

In a letter to Ernst von Meyenburg, Houston Stewart Chamberlain writes :

“ And then the question occurs to me whether you ever realized what a great injustice was done to Herr von Bethmann Hollweg when a distracted stenographer put the words in his mouth:“ Free path for all capable! ”That would be yes was nothing new at all, and I am completely convinced that he said: "Free path for all unfit!" Because that is really the principle that Faguet shows us at work in France and that now rules in Germany. There is also originality and courage in such knowledge. "

Today these words are the motto of economic liberalism , the principle of which is that everyone has the freedom to do whatever he wants, provided that he does not violate another's freedom.

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• “ Free path to the right person! "
• “ Free passage on the bus! "
• " SME funding: Free the way for SMEs! "

Free travel for free citizens!

In February 1974 - three months after the height of the oil crisis with the four " car-free Sundays " in Germany - the General German Automobile Club ( ADAC ) under its president Franz Stadler started a campaign entitled Free citizens demand free travel , which is mainly directed against the four-month Tempo 100 large-scale test started in November 1973 on the federal highways. Since many ADAC members could not make friends with this slogan, the campaign resulted in a wave of withdrawals.

The success of the campaign was that instead of a general speed limit of 100 km / h on the motorways, a non-binding recommended speed of 130 km / h was introduced.

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• “ We demand: Free travel for free citizens ” was a banner of the Leipzig Monday demonstrations .
• “ Mobile phone hands-free system, free travel for free hands. "
• " Heating oil: Free travel for free prices. "
• “ Free travel for free cyclists. "

freedom of the seas

The word about the freedom of the seas goes back to the book “Mare liberum” published in Leiden in 1609 by the legal scholar Hugo Grotius . In his work, Grotius advocated the claims of the Dutch to free navigation and free trade in India against the Portuguese, who had claimed him as sole right since Vasco da Gama's voyage of discovery.

In 1604/05, Grotius wrote De jure praedae ("On the right to award ") a legal opinion for the Dutch East India Company . It already contains the basic ideas of his later major work, but remained unpublished until 1868. Only one chapter was published anonymously in 1609 under the title Mare Liberum ("The Free Sea") . The Catholic Church immediately indexed Mare liberum because it undermined the papal world order . Grotius formulated a revolutionary new principle here by declaring that the seas are international waters and that all nations have the right to use them for merchant shipping . England resisted this idea and claimed extensive water sovereignty around the British Isles. Cornelis van Bynkershoek affirmed ownership of the sea only for the range of the guns at the time. With this restriction, the three-mile zone , the freedom of the seas finally prevailed as the basis of modern maritime law .

Freedom i mean

“ Freedom that I mean ” is the beginning of the first and last stanza of the song “ Freiheit ” by Max von Schenkendorf , a poet of the Wars of Liberation . The first lines are:

Freedom that I mean, that
fills my heart,
come with your shine,
sweet angel picture!

The song is about freedom from Napoleonic rule. The words " that I mean " in Schenkendorf's song mean something like " that I love ". Today, “ my ” is more like “ understand ”.

Liberty, equality, fraternity

"Liberté Egalité Fraternité" at a French church

The three catchwords freedom, equality, fraternity (Liberté Egalité Fraternité) became the motto of the French Revolution in 1793 and the official motto of the state in the Second Republic. In German writings on the French Revolution, only the first two terms, namely “freedom” and “equality” , were initially mentioned.

In 1793 the board of directors decided to have a slogan posted on the facades of all the houses in the capital:

" Unité, Indivisibilité de la République, Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité ou la mort "

“ Unity, indivisibility of the republic; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death "

The inhabitants of the other cities quickly copied. However, you were soon asked to remove the last part of this label as it was too reminiscent of the Reign of Terror.

Even today, the phrase is a symbol of freedom and the modern state. It can also be found on the French euro coins.

Freedom is afraid of neamands.

This Bavarian sentence ( freedom means not to be afraid of anyone. ) Comes from Konstantin Wecker's ballad Gestern hams an Willy derschlogn . There Wecker speaks retrospectively with his friend Willy:

" Mia habns eana zoagn wolln, Willy,
and you said at the time:
Freedom, alarm clock, freedom hoats koa afraid of
neamands, but be honest,
a little bit of a lot of feeling ma but back then ... "

Freedom is insight into necessity.

This saying can be found in Friedrich Engels ' work by Mr. Eugen Dühring's revolution in science , the so-called anti-Dühring .

Insight into the necessity of something brings about freedom in relation to it, because it is then no longer felt as a compulsion, but as a need. Engels took up this knowledge from the philosopher Hegel and processed it in the Anti-Dühring :

“ Hegel was the first to correctly portray the relationship between freedom and necessity. For him freedom is the insight into necessity. 'Necessity is only blind in so far as it is not understood.' Freedom does not lie in the dreamed-of independence from the laws of nature, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility of allowing them to work according to plan for specific purposes. "

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• “ Reason is insight into necessity. "
• “ Freedom is insight into the need for maneuverability. "
• “ Freedom is access to the files. "

Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently.

Rosa Luxemburg Monument in Zwickau with the saying: Freedom is always freedom for those who think differently

This sentence can be found as a marginal note in the article The Revolution in Russia by Rosa Luxemburg . She expresses her conviction that "political freedom" cannot be the privilege of a group:

“ Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for members of a party - no matter how numerous they may be - is not freedom. Freedom is always the freedom of those who think differently. "

In the received original as a marginal note on your manuscript, the sentence is slightly different :

“ Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for members of a party - no matter how numerous they may be - is not freedom. Freedom is always only freedom for those who think differently . Not because of the fanaticism of 'justice', but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying of political freedom depends on this being and its effect fails when 'freedom' becomes a privilege. "

Luxemburg welcomed Lenin's October Revolution , but at the same time sharply criticized his strategy and warned against a dictatorship of the Bolsheviks . Her friend Paul Levi did not publish this essay until 1922 after her death.

Freedom is only in the realm of dreams.

In his poem The Beginning of the New Century, Friedrich Schiller laments the state of the world at the beginning of the 19th century and, in the last stanza, expresses the conviction that real freedom only exists “ in the realm of dreams ”:

“ In the sacred and quiet rooms of the
heart you must flee from the urge of life!
Freedom is only in the realm of dreams,
and beauty only blossoms in song. "

Freedom instead of socialism!

Freedom instead of socialism was the most important slogan of the CDU in the federal election in 1976. The slogan was coined and launched by the Hessian CDU politician Alfred Dregger . The turn was directed against the Ostpolitik of the Willy Brandt government and his successor Helmut Schmidt . “Freedom” symbolized the democratic-political system of the Federal Republic of Germany, while “socialism” should refer to the political system of the GDR . Of freedom or socialism was freedom instead of socialism .

In the election campaign, the slogan was transferred to the politics of the SPD . Chancellor candidate Helmut Kohl saw this as an answer to the claim of the SPD that democracy can only be realized in socialism. Willy Brandt countered:

“ The either-or propagandists of the right will not be able to play off freedom against social democracy. And even the idol worshipers on the communist side will not be able to deceive the citizens. Your alleged socialism, the GDR brand, has as much to do with freedom as the ox has to do with playing the piano. "

An employee of Kurt Biedenkopf subsequently admitted that the campaign motto was “ on the verge of seriousness ”. Nevertheless, the slogan worked because the Social Democrats always had to justify why they were not a socialist party. The 1976 Bundestag election ended with a significant increase in the votes of the Union parties. Hans Filbinger took over the slogan in the Baden-Württemberg state election campaign in the same year and achieved an absolute majority at that time.

Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not honor.

Otto Wels

The Social Democratic politician Otto Wels went as one member of parliament in history, the March 23, 1933, as Reichstag speech at the Reichstag in Berlin Kroll Opera House against the Enabling Act the Nazis argued, citing as grounds by the SPD. In this last free speech in the German Reichstag he said:

“ Freedom and life can be taken from us, but not honor. "

All 94 SPD MPs present voted against the law. The remaining members of the Reichstag who were present voted in favor (the KPD members were arrested, murdered or on the run from the Nazis). In his response to Otto Wels' speech, Hitler said:

“ I don't even want you to vote for it. Germany should become free, but not through you. "

In August 1933, Wels was stripped of its German citizenship. At the decision of the party leadership, he first went into exile in the French-administered Saarland, then later to Prague and finally to Paris, where he died in 1939.

The stranger is only strange in a stranger.

This saying comes from the Bavarian cabaret artist Karl Valentin . This Valentine quote is also the title of a book by Gerd Riepe and Regina Riepe, with the subtitle “ Arguments against Racism ”.

In the Stuttgarter Zeitung it says about this quote:

“ You can't think about Karl Valentin's sentence early enough. "

In December 2006, the Trier University of Applied Sciences organized a training meal organized by foreign students as part of the expansion of transcultural understanding, under the motto “ Foreigners eat only abroad ”.

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods

Schiller's poem To Joy begins with the line joy, beautiful spark of gods . Joy is addressed as a daughter from Elysium , the Greek island of the blessed:

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,

Daughter from Elysium,

We enter, drunk with fire,

Heavenly, your sanctuary.

Freudian slip of the tongue

A Freudian slip of the tongue is a linguistic mistake named after the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud , in which the actual opinion or intention of the speaker appears involuntarily.

Friends, not these tones!

“Friends, not these notes!” Are the introductory words to the final chorus in the last movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the text:

“ O friends, not these tones!
But let's
tune in more pleasant . And more joyful!
Whoever succeeded in being the
friend of a friend,
who won a lovely wife,
mix in his cheers!
Yes, whoever
calls a soul to be on the earth!
And whoever has never been able to steal
himself from this covenant weeping. "

The words are quoted as an appeal for moderation in an argument. In 1914 Hermann Hesse wrote his essays against nationalist sentiments and abuse in the German press with the title "O friends, not these tones!"

Friends, hear the story.

This saying is the beginning of the famous Postillion song, from the first act of the comic opera The Postillon by Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam :

“ Friends, hear the story of the great simulmaticon!
Believe me that I am not making anything here, everyone already knows about it! "

Rejoice in life!

“ Enjoy life! “Is a well-known song by the Swiss poet and painter Johann Martin Usteri from 1793, the melody of which comes from Hans Georg Nägeli . The recurring first lines of the "chorus strophe" are:

Rejoice in life
because the lamp is still glowing;
Pick the rose before it fades
!

There is a well-known parody of these verses:

Rejoice in life,
grandmother is shaved with a scythe,
all in vain!
It wasn't smeared.

Peace to the huts! War the palaces!

Hessian country messenger with the slogan “Peace to the huts! War on the palaces! "

This declaration of war against the rich was put in front of the poet Georg Büchner in 1834 as the motto of his combat pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote . He adopted a slogan from the French Revolution of 1789, but changed the order of the two statements, which were as follows in the French original:

“Guerre aux châteaux! Paix aux chaumières! ”
“ War on the palaces! Peace to the huts! "

This slogan is said to come from the French writer Nicolas Chamfort , who is said to have proposed it as a battle cry for the French revolutionary troops.

In the introductory sentences it says:

“ In 1834 it looks like the Bible is being belied. It looks as if God made the peasants and craftsmen on the 5th day, and the princes and nobles on the 6th, and as if the Lord had said to them: Rule over everything that crawls on earth, and have the peasants and citizens for Counted worms. The life of the noble is a long Sunday, they live in beautiful houses, they wear delicate clothes, they have fat faces and speak their own language; but the people lay before them like manure in the field. "

The attacked authorities reacted violently to the appearance of the leaflet. Büchner was wanted on a wanted list, but was able to flee across the French border to Strasbourg in 1835.

An ironic twist is the following Sponti saying:

“ War the huts! Palaces for everyone! "

Peace for our time

Neville Chamberlain with the treaty in hand

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said in his address on September 30, 1938 after returning from signing the Munich Agreement with Hitler:

" My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep. "

“ My dear friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has brought an honorable peace from Germany. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and sleep easy. "

Chamberlain's foreign policy is known as the policy of appeasement . In 1938 he played a key role in the Munich Agreement , which gave Germany the right to annex the Sudetenland . The minutes of a speech that Hitler had given to his generals a few days before the start of World War II became public for the first time at the Nuremberg Trials :

“The opponents did not count on my great decisiveness. Our opponents are little worms. I saw her in Munich. […] Poland is now in the position I wanted it to be. [...] I'm just afraid that some bastard might present me with a mediation plan at the last moment. "

Fresh, pious, happy, free

Turnerkreuz (FFFF) on the gable of a sports home in Eisenberg

The gymnast's motto “Fresh, pious, cheerful, free” goes back to the “gymnastics father” Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , who used a similar phrase in his book “Die deutsche Turnkunst” in 1816 . The Darmstadt engraver Johann Heinrich Felsing designed the flag in the red and white colors of Hesse as early as 1844 . From 1846 on, the Felsing gymnast's cross (the four Fs ) became a symbol of the gymnastics movement and its political mindset: freedom, national independence and unity.

The four "F" mean:

Fresh to work!

Pious in the belief in the charitable status and lasting value of creation

Happy with each other

Free and open in all actions

Eat, bird, or die!

“Eat, bird, or die!” Was also the title of a diatribe directed against Martin Luther by the Strasbourg pastor Johann Nikolaus Weislinger from 1722, whose polemical anti-Protestant writings were widely distributed.

The protestant pastor Johann Philipp Fresenius' anti-whispers against this diatribe in 1731 aroused great bitterness among the Catholic clergy. The only way to escape arrest was to flee.

The phrase refers to a trapped bird who has no choice.

Enjoy with a good heart.

This slogan was created in 1955 for the introduction of the HB cigarette brand . The cigarette company Haus Bergmann tried to combine the cigarette brand with cheerfulness and light-heartedness. The expression quickly became known through intensive advertising, but then became independent and is used today for all kinds of pleasures.

The brand was initially advertised with the slogan “ A filter cigarette that tastes good ”. Filter cigarettes were an innovation on the German market, in which filter cigarettes only achieved a market share of 7.2% at the time of the introduction of HB cigarettes.

Be happy, do good and let the sparrows whistle.

Don Bosco

The priest and founder of the order Don Bosco , who campaigned for neglected children and young people, placed this motto above all of his activities.

In Italian the motto is as follows:

" Sia allegro - faccia buon - e lascia di passeri stridere. "

“ Let the sparrows whistle ” should mean that you don't always have to evaluate everything with the necessary serenity and make yourself independent of the opinion of others.

Happy science

the happy Science

The term " happy science " was coined by the philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder in 1796 in connection with the ancient Provencal literature and the Minne lyric of the troubadours :

“ So luck for the first ray of the newer poetic dawn in Europe! It has a beautiful name: the happy science (gaya ciencia, gay saber), she always wants to be worth it! "

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche used this term as a catchphrase for the joy of recurring strength after long deprivation and named one of his works The Happy Science :

“ The Titl always has it. "

The " happy science " should stand in contrast to theology and philosophy. The book contains thoughts on a wide variety of topics in almost 400 sections. The 1887 edition was subtitled (" La gaya scienza "). The motto of this issue was preceded by Nietzsche's own saying (" Above my front door "):

“ I live in my own house.
I have never imitated anything
and - still laughed at every master
who did not laugh at himself. "

Nietzsche writes in his preface to the second edition :

" 'Happy Science': that means the saturnalia of a spirit that has patiently withstood a terrible long pressure - patient, strict, cold, without submitting, but without hope - and who is now suddenly attacked by hope, of the hope of health, of the drunkenness of recovery. What a wonder, that a lot of unreasonable and foolish things come to light, a lot of wanton tenderness, even wasted on problems that have a prickly fur and are not prepared to be caressed and lured. "

Pious out of compulsion does not last long.

The proverbial forced good behavior, which only lasts as long as the force is exercised. The learning and upbringing effect is zero because the person concerned has not learned to act self-motivated; it can even bring about the opposite of what is intended, with internal dislike and defiance. Equivalents for this wisdom exist in different languages:

• Non durant acutus quos perficis ipse coactus. (Latin)
• Cosa sforzata è di poca durata. (Italian)
• Chose violente n'est pas permanente. (French)

Devout fraud

Isis , Anubis and Apis in the dream of Telethusa

This originally Latin expression ( pia fraus ) comes from the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid , who tells of the Cretan Ligdus, who absolutely wanted a son and announced that he would kill a daughter:

“ My wish is twofold: that you suffer little from pain
and that you bring me a boy. The opposite sex is a burden,
and we deny the means to happiness. So if - Heaven
before that - you give birth to a girl - with a refusing heart
I say it; Power of feelings, forgive - so be it killed. "

The woman, Telethusa, is desperate, but in the middle of the night the Egyptian goddess Isis appears to her , accompanied by Anubis and Apis , who promise her help in a dream. When she did give birth to a girl, the goddess Isis advised that the newborn should be given for a boy:

" How the pain increases and the burden pushes itself to the light
and a girl appears, that is why the father did not know,
Does it mean raise the mother as a lying boy, and faith
found the deception, and the wet nurse alone knew the secret.
Ligdus fulfills his vow and names the child after the ancestor:
he was called Iphis. The mother's name was dear,
because in case of doubt he left it and did not deceive her with it.
So the concealment remained obscure through pious deception. "

" Inde incepta pia mendacia fraude latebant".

Because the Greek name Iphis applies to both sexes in ancient times .
Thus the child's life was saved, and the goddess Isis later turned Iphis into a boy.

Later on, the term pious fraud was often used to refer to fraud for the good of the church, deception with good intentions, or self-deception. For example, predictions in the Bible are mostly self-deception. As soon as an event occurs, the Bible is searched for passages that could indicate that event. Mostly you will find what you are looking for, you just have to tear the places out of their context. Then there is hardly any risk that the prediction can be refuted:

“ For this the theologians have coined the expression vaticinia ex eventu, which literally means prophecy in terms of the result - an event is only prophesied when it has already occurred. It would be more correct to translate this as pious deception, because that is what it is all about. This method is used very often, especially in NT. It was also used extensively in the OT, because the OT did not come into being until much later than was initially thought, many events had already occurred long before they were 'prophesied' "

Grapes of Wrath

Grapes of Wrath (English: The grapes of wrath) is a 1939 published novel of the American writer John Steinbeck , in which the hard life of migratory farm workers is portrayed in California. The novel's title is a quote from the second verse of Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hymn of the Republic " (English ". The Battle Hymn of the Republic "), one during the Civil War song created:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;

My eyes have seen the glory of the Lord's approach He crushes the grape harvest where the fruits of anger are stored

At the same time, the title is also a reference to the biblical revelation of John [14:19]:

"And the angel struck his sickle on the earth and cut the vine of the earth and threw it into the great wine press of the wrath of God".

It is early to practice what a master wants to be.

The catchphrase "early practice what wants to be a master" comes from Schiller's play Wilhelm Tell (verse 1481). Wilhelm Tell's wife Hedwig (looking at her children who are busy with a crossbow):

"The boys start shooting early."

Tell:

"It is early to practice what a master wants to be."

Hedwig:

"Oh, God willing, they never learned!"

In the old days in construction, things like that were done with the roof batten.

The Hessian Prime Minister Holger Börner , who was a concrete skilled worker by profession, said angrily about militant demonstrators against the West Runway in an interview with Bunten Illustrierte in May 1982 :

“ I regret that my high office forbids me to hit these guys in the face myself. In the old days in construction, things like that were done with the roof batten. "

Later Börner did not want to have said the sentence in this form, but this quote is guaranteed:

“ My name is Borner, I weigh 250 pounds and when I'm angry I double that. "

We used to suffer from crimes, today we suffer from laws.

“ We used to suffer from crimes, today we suffer from laws. "

is a quote from the Annals of Tacitus (Annals 3, 25); in the Latin original it says:

" Utque antehac flagitiis ita tunc legibus laborabatur. "

Spring lets its blue ribbon flutter through the air again.

Blue ribbon in Ludwigsburg

These are the first two lines of verse from Eduard Mörike's spring poem He's :

" Spring lets its blue ribbon
flutter through the air again
Sweet, well-known scents
Stripes forebodingly the land
Violets are already dreaming,
Will come
soon Listen, a soft harp sound from afar!
Spring, yes it's you!
I heard you! "

This popular poem became & a. set to music by Robert Schumann (Spring Song, Op. 79, No. 24) and Hugo Wolf (Mörike-Lieder, No. 6).

Spring awakening

Cover of the original edition of Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a children's tragedy by Frank Wedekind , which was banned until 1912 after its premiere in Berlin in 1906. In this drama, the hardships of three adolescents in puberty are portrayed in conflict with morality frozen in prudishness.

The main actors in the play are:

• Melchior Gabor, an intelligent and enlightened high school student with an apparently liberal mother, but it is precisely his progressive thinking that causes him problems.
• Moritz Stiefel, the worst student in his class. Moritz confides his problem to his only friend, Melchior Gabor: the first “male emotions”.
• Wendla Bergmann, an inquisitive girl with a conservative mother who has not been told what will be fatal for her.

In his work, Wedekind criticizes the prevailing bourgeois sexual morality in the Wilhelminian Empire , in particular the pressure on people resulting from taboos. He makes clever use of stylistic figures and grotesquely exaggerated characters that give the work a humorous touch.

Once banned or censored due to its alleged obscenity , the play is now widely read in schools in some German and Austrian federal states. The title is used today to describe the incipient sexuality in young people.

Eleven fifty-five

“It's five to twelve!” Is a metaphor that is used to express the urgency of tackling a particular problem. The so-called Last Judgment clock , which symbolically represents the current risk of nuclear war, is linked to this metaphor .

Fifth column

When the Spanish general Emilio Mola led Franco's troops in four columns against the Communist-occupied Madrid in 1936 , he called the many supporters of Franco in Madrid in a radio address The fifth column (La quinta columna) . Since then , the term has been used for agents who are supposed to carry out orders in the country of the enemy.

The original meaning comes from the Russian Civil War and denotes an elite unit. This “5. Army “was founded by Leon Trotsky .

However, the term can also be traced back to an article by Karl Marx ( “Die Juneevolution” , “Neue Rheinische Zeitung” No. 31 of July 1, 1848) about the course of the uprising in Paris. In this article he first describes the operations of four columns of insurgents in the eastern part of the city. As a flaw in the underlying plan, he describes the fact that there was not a “fifth focus of insurrection” in the western part of the city .

For all those spectators who have just switched on: The first goal has already been scored.

This sentence is an example of how to make a virtue out of necessity. Günther Jauch and Marcel Reif bridged the 76-minute delay before kick-off during a Champions League game on April 1, 1998 between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund because fans had collapsed a goal but a substitute goal was not close. but had to be brought up first ( see Torfall von Madrid ).

Among the other well-known sentences in this reporting is the following:

Never before would a goal have done a game as good as it is here today, an early goal.

The two commentators bridged the time so entertainingly that they were awarded the Bavarian TV Prize for it.

For the cat

From the work Esopus by Burchard Waldis, published in 1548, comes the saying “ This is for the cat ” meaning that it is not worth it.

The quote collector Georg Büchmann explains the background of the saying as follows:

“ The expression is a remnant of the story from the blacksmith and his cat located there . A blacksmith resolved not to charge his customers anything for his work, but to leave payment to their own will; but they contented themselves with mere thanks. Now he tied his fat cat in the workshop, and when the customers left him with empty words of thanks, he said: 'Katz, I'll give you that!' The cat starves to death and the blacksmith decides to do it like the other craftsmen. "

In the German legal proverbs of Graf and Dietherr from 1869, it says “ You can't feed a cat with thanks ”.

There is no hero for a valet.

The source of this saying cannot be clearly established. The ancient Greek writer Plutarch reported that the Macedonian king Antigonos Gonatas said when he was called " God " in a poem :

“ My valet knows nothing about that. "

The saying is found in Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit : “There is no hero for the valet; but not because the former is not a hero, but because the latter - the valet, with whom the latter has to do not as a hero, but as a person who eats, drinks, dresses, generally in the detail of need and imagination. So there is no act for judging in which it cannot oppose the side of the particularity of the individuality to the general side of the act, and make the valet of morality against the agent. "

The dear life takes care of worries.

In the gift book of Goethe's West-Eastern Divan there are the following verses:

“ The dear life takes care of worries,
and the vines break worries. "

Furor Teutonicus

The Latin expression Furor Teutonicus means Teutonic frenzy .

The expression is usually attributed to the Roman poet Lucan , in whose work Bellum civile / Pharsalia it appears for the first time. Thus Lucan made reference to a supposedly stand-out characteristic of the Germanic tribe of the Teutons , the angry, merciless rage in battle. The term reflects the horror that the emerging Roman Republic first encountered Germanic tribes on their Italian territory in the 2nd century BC. Had seized.

The common name German is etymologically distantly related to the name of the "Teutons". German - like the Italian tedesco - goes back to the Old High German thiutisk , diutisk , from thiot , diot "people", from the synonymous Germanic root * theudō for people or tribe, which is related to Gaulish touta .

Football is a simple game - 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and in the end the Germans always win.

English soccer player Gary Lineker allegedly said in English on July 4, 1990, after the England team was eliminated on penalties in the 1990 World Cup semi-finals :

" Football is a simple game — 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, and at the end of the Germans always win. "

Lineker was one of the best football players ever to play for England. Nevertheless, he never managed to win a title with his team, which is why he, frustrated after this semi-final defeat, invented this cult saying.

Before the final of the European Football Championship in 2008 , the Spanish national coach Luis Aragonés remembered the saying of his friend Gary Lineker:

“ Aragonés repeated the quote twice, then he said: 'The Germans are the Germans.' Yes, the victory of the Spaniards results in an interesting final pairing. Probably the worst tournament nation in the world is playing against what is probably the best tournament nation in the world. "

The game ended 1-0 for Spain.

The football player Stefan Effenberg modified Lineker's quote with reference to the German Bundesliga:

“The Bundesliga is a really exciting competition. 18 teams want to become German champions - and in the end, Bayern always celebrate . "

It's gone, it's gone.

This casual saying goes back to the wandering song Bin ein fahrende Gesell by Rudolf Baumbach , set to music by Ludwig Keller , the first stanza of which goes like this:

" I'm a traveling journeyman
know not worry
refresh me, now a rocky spring
does red wine tomorrow.
Am a knight
Praise rides on shoemaker's black horse,
lead the loose siskin cock
and the lusty slogan in the coat of arms:
Yes, always funny, blood and cheerful spirit,
yes gone is gone and gone is gone "

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