Spontaneous sayings

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Sponti-sayings emerged in the course of the student and pupil revolt and with the emergence of the so-called Spontis in the 1970s.

The spontaneous sayings are conventional proverbs or idioms that have been provocatively changed. However, they were not only disseminated through the media, but can also be read as graffiti on house walls or the walls of public toilets. Some of the sayings were made out of joke, others had a serious background or a clearly political statement. Such slogans were often made during a demonstration. In order to make fun of the texts on the banners of the K groups , for example , one chanted rhythmically: "Down with it, fight it, away with it, forwards, long live!"

Examples (selection)

  • Worker? No thanks.
  • No power for nobody!
  • Under the gowns - must of 1000 years
  • If German studies kill, the blue flower turns red! (This was aimed at German studies , which at that time was often perceived as frozen and partly folk science.)
  • Break what breaks you . ( Clay stones shards )
  • Petting instead of pershing
  • You the power - us the night.
  • I'm going to break - are you going with me?
  • Better arm off than arm off!
  • Advice is also a blow.
  • Legal, illegal, don't give a shit.
  • You don't have a chance, but use it!
  • Whoever fights can lose; who does not fight has already lost. Also known in the variant: Whoever fights can lose; if you don't fight, you can't win. (originally a quote attributed to Bertolt Brecht )
  • The window rattles, the Sponti giggles, hopefully with Allianz insurance.
  • Apparently, when war breaks out, peace was a prison.
  • The wiser gives in until he's the stupid.
  • Liberté, Égalité , mint tea
  • Who does not enjoy becomes inedible.
  • Down with gravity, long live recklessness.
  • Better to be vicious than heavily pregnant.
  • If you watch too much TV, you lose your vision.
  • Nonsense instead of consensus .
  • If you sleep with the same person twice, you already belong to the establishment .
  • Imagine it's war and nobody goes. (Actually not a spontaneous saying, but translated from English from a poem by Carl Sandburg )
  • The beach is under the pavement. (This saying alludes to the fact that street pavement is often laid on a sandy underground, and that paving stones were and are still a popular weapon in street fighting; it thus combines hedonism with militancy . The French version Sous les pavés, la plage , which is also used by the Situationist International is attributed, was popular during the Paris riots in May 68. The name of the magazine Pflasterstrand (1976–1990), the mouthpiece of the left-wing spontaneous scene in Frankfurt am Main, goes back to it, as does the name of the anarchist magazine Unter den Pflaster the beach (1974–1985) and the title of the film Under the pavement is the beach by Helma Sanders-Brahms (1975)).
  • Knowledge is power. We don't know anything. Never mind. - also in the variant knowledge is power, I don't know anything, doesn't matter. Originator unknown. Spontaneous slogan, which has been widespread since the 1970s, satirizes the statement “ knowledge is power”, which goes back to the early modern English philosopher Francis Bacon .
  • One must never again on German soil joint out. ( Wolfgang Neuss ) A corruption of From German Soil May Never Go Again to War , a pacifist statement that z. B. was also quoted in a government statement by Willy Brandt .

literature

  • Oliver Thomas Domzalski (Ed.): The golden album of the Sponti-Sprüche: "I'm going to break - are you going with me?" . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-8218-4953-3 .
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 1, I'm going to break, are you going with me ?, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1981, ISBN 978-3-8218-1904-4
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 2, It's time we loved, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1982, ISBN 978-3-8218-1911-2
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 3, Take it easy, take me, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1983, ISBN 978-3-8218-1921-1
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 4, Without things, no bums, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1984, ISBN 978-3-8218-1929-7
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 5, Better intimate than in petto, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1984, ISBN 978-3-8218-1934-1
  • Spontaneous Sayings No. 6, Better as soft as eberhard, Frankfurt / Main: Eichborn, 1986, ISBN 978-3-8218-1950-1
  • Spontaneous sayings in English: save water, bath with a friend / Fred Meyer-Wefel (Ed.), Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn, 1985, ISBN 978-3-8218-1939-6

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