Flatbed master
As flatbed master has been and is a sort of master of ceremonies called and folders at social gatherings. His prop is a cot , a long, flat piece of wood with which he is not really allowed to punish those who break the rules, but only apparently.
The Reallexicon of German Antiquities defined the office as follows:
- “Flatbed master, was the name of the person who had to keep order at the shooting range at the rifle festivals ; At the end of the cot he used a flat tool split into several thin boards, with which he hit the disobedient. At the same time he was the fun-maker of society and had to write poems for the festivities. "They were with their own costumes on some farms to the beginning of the 18th century. .
The office of an early modern Nuremberg rifle master was described as follows:
- "The bed master has the role of emcees and joker, also master of ceremonies, but also to meet certain regulatory task while shooting".
The bed master, who can be described as the functional successor of the herald , usually wore a fool's costume . Platform masters were not only to be found among the riflemen, but also at court parties. But even when bathers came together for a sociable bathing court , one of them was often held in the position of a bed master.
Flatbed masters often wrote handwritten or printed descriptions of the festivities they attended. The most famous literary platform masters in the 16th century were Leonhard Flexel and Heinrich Wirri .
To this day, the office and designation has been retained by local traditional associations (riflemen, carnivals , fairgrounds, etc.). For example, there are platform masters at the boys' games in Würselen .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Götzinger: Reallexicon of the German antiquities . Leipzig 1885, p. 812 online
- ^ Exhibition catalog: Hans Sachs and the Mastersingers . Nuremberg 1981, p. 132.
- ↑ See in detail http://www.wirrizunft.ch/pages/Wirri.htm