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With tearjerker is most commonly known pejoratively an artistically inferior erachtetes work, mainly a cheesy -sentimentales song called or piece of music. The term is also used for plays, television plays or sentimental cinema pieces (such as "Heimatschnulze"), occasionally also in literary criticism  - especially in feature sections .

Etymology and meaning

The term Schnulze was coined in 1948 by the band leader Harry Hermann , appeared in the newspaper language around 1950 and then spread throughout the German-speaking world. As early as 1892, however, he was the name or pseudonym of a critic. The exact origin is unclear and it is - as Wolfgang Pfeifer  - an "idiosyncratic affektische Education", perhaps either a slip of the tongue in accordance with lard for a "sentimental feeling Product" or Küppers dictionary of German slang to Low German snulten 'talk effusively 'to do with feeling', related to nd. snulle 'nice, pleasant, dear'. Above all, the name Schulze may have had a certain influence. Whatever the category, no matter what category, sentimentality and sentimentality are always associated. An ironic-derogatory intended form of increase is Edelschnulze for a schnulziger film, book or hit (also supposed) "artistic claim [s]", the adjective means schnulzig.

The lexicon of film terms also describes Schnulze as a “disparaging-loving” term on the part of the recipient for a hit or film that is emotional. These are “charged with sometimes high subjective importance”, but the recipient is also “aware of the aesthetic inferiority”, which also includes “ironically distant features”. Examples from the film almost always come from the genus Rührstück and "are clearly geared towards emotion as the primary reception affect". In addition to Love Story (1970) and The Story of Us (1999), “also the more recent family touching pieces from the ZDF production based on Rosamunde Pilcher's models ” are named as examples .

In the so-called “ Schnulzenerlass ” from ORF general director Gerd Bacher from July 1968, the quota of German-language hits in Ö3 was drastically reduced. As a new youth broadcaster , it should open up to the target group appropriate styles of international pop and folk music. However, music critics and recipients also referred to titles in other languages, including English-language ones, as "Schnulzen". Elvis Presley serves as an example, especially in his later phase with some very successful titles such as Suspicious Minds (1968) or Always on My Mind (1973). In the English language crooning in particular is mostly disparaging in popular music for “Schnulze, extremely sentimental hit song from English. croon »softly, gently sing« “, as well as crooner derived from it, used equivalent for the (mostly male) interpreter.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Schnulze  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A b Heinz-Hermann Meyer: Schnulze. filmlexikon.uni-kiel.de ; accessed on November 24, 2018.
  3. ^ Fritz Nies, Bernd Kortländer: Literature import and literary criticism: the example of France. Gunter Narr Verlag, 1996, p. 40.
  4. Packed as a Schnulze . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1959 ( online ).
  5. Jürgen Wölfer : The great lexicon of entertainment music. Berlin 2000, pp. 238, 472.
  6. Jump up . In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved November 23, 2018
  7. Edelschnulze. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved November 23, 2018
  8. Edelschnulze. In: Large dictionary of the German language . Wissen.de; accessed on November 27, 2018.
  9. Christian Glanz: Schlager. In: musiklexikon.ac.at . Austrian Academy of Sciences , accessed on November 23, 2018 .
  10. Peter Maxwill: How Elvis King became. one day ; accessed on November 24, 2018.
  11. Jürgen Seifert: Pop & Rock. The history of pop and rock music. P. 30, Google Books.
  12. Wolfgang Rumpf: Music in the Air. AFN, BFBS, Ö3, Radio Luxembourg and radio culture in Germany. P. 144, Google Books.
  13. ^ John Robertson: Elvis Presley. Story and songs compact. Google books.
  14. Crooning. In: True Foreign Words Dictionary. Wissen.de ; accessed on November 27, 2018.