Marmeladinger
Marmeladinger is in eastern Austria common disrespectful term for German , especially for North German , which is derived from the fact that the soldiers of the German Empire in World War I to butter and lard had to do without, and as a spread for a cheap jam got. They carried it with grim humor and coined the expressions "Heldenbutter" and "Hindenburgfett" - after Paul von Hindenburg , who was in charge of the war for a long time. A Munich cabaret artist who was "made to move in" even wrote a mocking song about it : "Jam, jam / is the best food / in the German state ..."
The Austrians mocked the Reich Germans allied with them as Marmeladinger or as jam brothers , either because they wanted to make fun of the jam as a substitute for fat or because they believed that the Reich German soldiers ate the jam out of passion. After Piefke or Piefkineser in Eastern Austria, Marmeladinger is the most frequently used nickname for federal Germans .
literature
- Anton Karl Mally, "Piefke". Origin u. Role of an Austrian nickname f. the Prussians, the North u. the Reichsdeutsche, in: mother tongue. Magazine z. Care and Exploration d. German language (Wiesbaden), vol. 84, no. 4 (July / August 1974), pp. 257–286, here 278 ff., especially 279.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Heinke M. Kalinke, Klaus Roth, Tobias Weger (eds.): Eating culture and cultural identity: Ethnological food research in Eastern Europe . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag , 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59233-7 , p. 72 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).