sketch
A Sketch ( Engl. : Sketch) is a short comedic scene following a reduced activity and a concise final punch closes. In terms of style and content, it is related to cabaret and comedy and can also be understood as a “joke that is being (seen) played”.
dramaturgy
Skits are usually no longer than five to ten minutes. Usually only a few characters appear and changes of scene are rare. A plot is usually told in a timely manner that is pointed to a point. Reaching this punch line ends the sketch in most cases.
Emergence
The sketch originated in the USA around 1900 . The short stage plays were performed with minimal decoration as part of the cabaret. In Germany, skits were mainly distributed by Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt in the period from 1892 to 1960. After 1940, skits became popular in films and on television, and more recently as comedy formats for sketch shows and series.
Well-known skits
In the German language, skits by Karl Valentin ( Buchbinder Wanninger ) , Dieter Hallervorden ( Palim-Palim ) and Loriot ( Jodeldiplom , Die Nudel , Kosakenzipfel , Herren im Bad ) are popular. Exceptionally from the style is Yes, where are they going? , in which Loriot drew an animated film in 1972 for an old sketch on shellac record ( Auf der Rennbahn , 1946) , in which two of his typical "bulbous noses" act. The 18-minute Sketch Dinner for One by Freddie Frinton , which is broadcast every year on New Year's Eve in most third-party television programs, also has cult status in Germany . The differing Swiss version has been shown regularly on Swiss television since 1989 .
The British comedian group Monty Python repeatedly broke the usual scheme of the sketch, often by dispensing with an (obvious) punch line at the end of the scene. Well-known skits from Monty Python's Flying Circus include The Parrot Is Dead , The Spam Skit , The World's Deadliest Joke, and The Ministry of Silly Corridors .
More skits can be found in the category: Sketch .
Other word meanings
- In English literary studies, a sketch is a prose sketch or a short narrative that reproduces a random impression or a passing mood. The sketchbook The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving is well known . It contains the first American short stories.
- In the jargon of the graffiti scene , a sketch is called a short preliminary sketch.
literature
- R. Müller: Theory of the punchline . Paderborn 2003, pp. 263-305
- Martina Lauster: Sketches of the Nineteenth Century, European Journalism and its 'Physiologies', 1830-1850 . Basingstoke / New York 2007
Web links
- The Snack-German course - exemplary radio sketch by SWR3
- Sketche.de - free skits to replay
Individual evidence
- ^ Sketch in: Microsoft Encarta
- ^ Every year again , Swiss family, December 2019.
- ↑ schnittberichte.com : The 90th birthday or Dinner for One .