Nuremberg funnel
The Nuremberg funnel is rather jokingly used to describe a mechanical way of learning and teaching . This is primarily linked to the idea that a student can acquire learning content with this form of "funneling" influence on the one hand almost without effort and effort and on the other hand a teacher can teach everything to the "dumbest".
etymology
The winged word "Nürnberger Trichter" goes back to the title of a poetics textbook by the founder of the Pegnese Order of Flowers and Nuremberg poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), which was titled Poetischer Trichter. The German poetry and rhyming art, without using the Latin language, poured in six hours in 1647 in Nuremberg . Due to the spread of the work, the expression “Nuremberg funnel” became a common phrase .
“ As strange as the title may seem today, one must be warned of an ahistorical misunderstanding that the history of internal and external literary reception has made out of it: a phrase ('Nuremberg funnel') with which someone is said to have a certain lack of need want. No, historically this title is completely different and not pejorative: the dominant idea is that poetry can be taught and learned. "
In the preface to the poetics textbook it becomes clear that Harsdörffer is by no means talking about a mechanical “funnel”. For Harsdörffer, the “funnel” is a symbol of the careful use of time. Wine grows anew every year, but still you fill the new wine through funnels into bottles and barrels, "so that all drops of it come to use: we let the time flow without any use and pay attention to nothing badly investing much good hours, which loss anyway of all the world's wealth and work cannot be brought about again ”. According to Harsdörffer, learning poetry without systematic instructions would be tantamount to pouring wine without a funnel, i.e. wasting time.
With his “Poetic Funnel”, Harsdörffer primarily connects the educational ideas that one can also write poetry in German, the vernacular language, and that poetry can be learned with the right guidance:
" How now to find no field so bad and naughty that one should not be able to make fertile through diligence and persistent care and work: So no such impure brain is not bound by reflecting on instructions obtained beforehand (which is, as it were, the usury) A speech or a rhyming poem should be able to learn: one much happier than the other. "
However, even after the six lessons, one will only master the “poetry and rhyme art” without a “poetic spirit” “to the noht and not completely”. So the "poetry and rhyming art" is not just "poured in":
“ After all, the six hours do not have to be taken on one day in a row and the memory overflowed; but about in three or four days with mature meditation on the unknown artificial words; after you grasp and learn it soon or slowly. "
The transferred phrase to funnel something or get something funneled into it is even older than the image of the “Nuremberg funnel”; it is probably first documented in Sebastian Franck's collection of proverbs from 1541 - still without any reference to the city of Nuremberg.
Trivia
At the same time, Nürnberger Trichter is also the name of a carnival society founded in Nuremberg in 1909, see Nürnberger Trichter Carnival Society . It awards the Golden Funnel to well-known personalities every year. In Nuremberg there is also a hotel with the name.
Since 1997, a saber-fencer tournament has been held in Nuremberg under the name "Nürnberger Trichter". In addition, the city-based company Gefa markets a liquor with the name.
The people from the shield also fell for the Nuremberg funnel. Since they did not know what this ominous funnel was about, they asked a man from Nuremberg, who answered that one could absorb cleverness through this funnel without having to learn. The people from the Shields tried this out immediately, which made the people of Nuremberg very amused - and began to spray water with hoses on the citizens of the Shield, which only led to the fact that the citizens of the Shield were even more eager to “funnel” it, because they believed the water was wise. Back in Schilda, they told the people who had stayed at home about it, but when they had to sneeze heavily - because sneezing powder had been scattered - they thought that they had now sneezed off all their brains and were very disappointed.
literature
- Georg Philipp Harsdörfer: Poetic funnel - The German poetry and rhyming art / without using the Latin language / pour in six hours. Nuremberg 1648–1653. (Reprographic reprint: Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / New York 1971, ISBN 3-487-04068-9 )
- Franz Kaiser: The Nuremberg funnel . Images v. Emeli Werzinger. Sebaldus-Verlag, Nuremberg 1946, DNB 452294088 .
- Hans Recknagel, Rolf Veit: Wagenseils Nuremberg funnel. To the story of a saying . In: Messages from the Altnürnberger Landschaft e. V. Issue 1, 2001, pp. 571-581.
- Dagmar Hirschfelder: The “Nuremberg funnel” - a panacea against stupidity? In: KulturGUT - From the research of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Issue 8, 2006, pp. 3–5.
Web links
- German First Day School Portraits: Funnel / Trichter (English)
- Nuremberg funnel in the FrankenWiki - especially section "On the history and meaning of the word"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Philipp Harsdörffer : Poetischer funnel. The German poetry and rhyming art / without reference to the Latin language / in Vl. Hours to pour. Including an appendix of the spelling / and writing division / or distinction . Through a member of the laudable fruit-bearing society . Published for the second time and increased in many places. Nuremberg / Printed by Wolfgang Endter, Nuremberg 1648–1653 [Library of the Germanisches Nationalmuseums, Sign. 80 01 164/1, Coll. N 943] First edition: 1647.
- ^ Theodor Verweyen : Georg Philipp Harsdörffer - a Nuremberg Baroque author in the field of tension between domestic poetry traditions and European literary culture. Volume II, Erlanger Digital Edition - Contributions to literature and linguistics at www.erlangerliste.de .
- ↑ See Lutz Röhrich : Lexicon of proverbial sayings. Volume 3: Homer - Benefits. Herder Verlag, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1994, DNB 942161645 , p. 1103.
- ↑ Hotel Garni - Nuremberg funnel. www.nuernberger-trichter.de, 2020, accessed on May 18, 2020 .
- ↑ www.fechterring.de
- ↑ Nuremberg funnel. www.gluehwein.net, 2020, accessed on May 18, 2020 .