Sühudi
The Sühudi is a figure of the Einsiedeln carnival . It occurs most Güdelmontag ( Rose Monday ) at Sühudiumzug on. The Sühudi is dressed in old but clean clothes. Women's and men's clothes are often combined, but nothing should really fit. In front of the face, a Sühudi wears a self-made mask from paper mache , preferably full of warts, bumps and ulcers like lepers, with a huge chin and a big nose. The Sühudi must not be beautiful in the aesthetic sense , but should be an eerily beautiful, grotesque figure.
Every Sühudi has its own theme, which it satirizes. Although a Sühudi often has a somewhat gruesome shape, it is never about frightening the audience. There is a real treat for the audience. In a dialogue and in a disguised voice (so-called breugen ) it presents its pastiche , it intrigues , as the locals say.
It is an older carnival figure, the origin of which is not entirely clear. The figure can be traced back to the 19th century , but is presumably even older. It hardly takes any financial outlay to turn into a Sühudi. A suitable mask can be made by yourself with simple means. Thus it was already possible in earlier times for poorer sections of the population to take part in the carnival event in the form of this figure. A Sühudi appears correspondingly cheeky, original and up-to-date.
literature
- Team of authors: Einsiedler Fasnacht . Fasnachtsgesellschaft Goldmäuder, Einsiedeln 2005 (without ISBN, available from the Benziger Einsiedeln bookstore).