Quirk
Marotte is the French diminutive of the name Marie and originally the name for a doll on a stick in a puppet theater . In a figurative sense was from fad a whim or strange habit.
In the fine arts, the quirk is an attribute of momos , the personification of censure and abuse.
etymology
Fad for "strange habit whimsical propensity quirk" was in the second half of the 18th century by French marotte borrowed . This French noun, which was first documented in the 15th century, belongs as a diminishing suffix (such as French marionnette , see marionette , and old French mariole "small image of Mary, holy image") to the French name Marie (Latin Maria ). Century the female first name has developed quirk . The change in meaning that can be observed in the French language led from “Marienbild, Heiligenfigur” to “Doll, Marionette” to a “fool's scepter” consisting of a stick with a doll's head in the 16th century, then to “fool's cap” and finally in the 17th century to “ foolish idea, folly, strange hobby ”.
Doll making
The rod - which usually also serves as an axis around which the doll can be rotated - is attached in such a way that you can use it to guide the doll (usually from below). At the end of the Middle Ages , the fool wore a quirk. Often you can still see leftovers of it today in Carnival or Shrovetide . Often the guild master of a fool's guild carries a small image of the mask or entire figure of his guild on a stick, for example the cuckoo in the " Litzelstetter Kuckucken ", when moving.
Nowadays, in the puppet theater , quirk is primarily a construction in which the shoulder is shaped as a bow or half an egg, with a central hole, the diameter of which is slightly larger than the holding rod of the figure. The shoulder is secured on both sides with a leather strap or similar. attached to the rod or passed through a drilled hole, leaving some play for mobility. On the outside, one-, two- or three-part arms, also movable, are attached to the shoulder with straps or straps. If you turn the doll slightly to and fro, the arms swing quite naturally. That is why the figure is also called a dangling figure. Other sticks for hands and other parts of the doll are also possible, but lead to the principle of the stick figure .
literature
- Heiner Meininghaus: Fool's Scepter or Quirks. In: Weltkunst . Volume 72, No. 13, Nov 2002, pages 2031-2033
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Etymological dictionary of German according to Pfeifer, online at DWDS , accessed on February 29, 2012
- ↑ www.nz-kuckuck.de