Sway
The Schwank ( mhd. Swanc "funny idea") is a folk-related story or a play . Mostly it is about two people who exchange ideas about sometimes trivial , sometimes funny things - including topics that are otherwise rarely or rarely addressed in storytelling, such as school or other things. A fluctuation has a turning point (also found in a fable or short story ). Most of the time the author is unknown.
Definitions
There are different definitions:
- Replaying a comical storyline with strange people and situations.
- The mostly crude, almost always cheerful, short story, the content of which is mostly based on "trumpeting".
- In the late Middle Ages and especially in the 16th century, a joke story or a farce-like short comedy, popular, often very crude, sometimes even ridiculous, the majority of which are summarized in so-called junk books.
- It is not used for mockery like comedy, not for great amusement like comedy, not for crude exuberance like farce, but it offers light humor, harmless cheerfulness without problems, carefree happiness.
The themes are situations or events from everyday life , with dialogues between opposing parties (e.g. master and servant, cheater and duped, stupid and clever) being presented. A rough choice of words is not uncommon. Often a Schwank tells of a well-known literary figure such as Till Eulenspiegel , the Schildbürgern or Hans Sachs .
The narrative style is very straightforward, for this reason the Schwank is well suited for entertaining entertainment.
Similar narrative forms
literature
- Hanns Fischer (Hrsg.): Fluctuating narratives of the German Middle Ages. Hanser Verlag, Munich 1967
- Ferdinand Gerhard: Joh. Peter de Memels Funny Society together with an overview of the Schwank literature of the XVII. Century. Hall a. P. 1893
- Gerlinde Haid : Schwank. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
- Karl Kunze, Heinz Obländer: Basic knowledge of German literature. Klett, Stuttgart 1969
- Gerhard Kuttner: Nature and Forms of German Schwankliteratur of the 16th Century. Berlin 1934
- Erich Strassner: Schwank. Metzler, Stuttgart 1968
- Winfried Theiss: Schwank. Bamberg 1985
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Ferdinand Gerhard: Joh. Peter de Memels Funny Society together with an overview of the Schwank literature of the XVII. Century. Hall a. P. 1893, p. 10.
- ^ Gerhard Kuttner: Essence and Forms of the German Schwankliteratur of the 16th century. Berlin 1934, p. 7.
- ^ Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Bern / Munich 1956, Volume 3, pp. 2654-2655.
- ↑ Horst Rüdiger, Erwin Koppen (Hrsg.): Kleines Literarisches Lexikon . 4th edition. Bern / Munich 1966, Volume 3, p. 370.