Tünnes and Schäl
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Tünnes and peeling are two legendary figures from the Hänneschen puppet theater of the city of Cologne .
The name Tünnes is the Rhenish form of Antonius . Tünnes is represented as a bulbous-nosed, rustic type with a peaceful disposition and a certain peasant cunning.
On the one hand, peeling refers to the squinting of the protagonist. The expression on the other hand in the Kölsch dialect and bad or wrong , so that the name ambiguous on purpose is, see also Schälsick . The figure is slimmer than Tünnes and always wears a tailcoat . His character is portrayed as rogue, cunning and even sneaky.
history
Johann Christoph Winters , the founder of Cologne's first Hänneschentheater, established Tünnes as a figure in his ensemble in 1803. The introduction of the Schäl character in the 1850s is attributed by tradition experts to Winter's annoyance with Franz Millewitsch, despite the different spelling, an ancestor of the popular actor Willy Millowitsch , who ran a competitive puppet theater on the Schäl Sick .
Tünnes and Schäl as Cologne originals
The duo are characters that never existed in reality. Since, in the opinion of many Cologne residents, they have numerous peculiarities of the city's residents, they are still counted among the Cologne originals who normally really lived. Due to the high level of awareness outside of the puppet theater, it is not only in Cologne that a number of “Tünnes-und-Schäl” jokes are told. To this day, the control center of the Cologne transport company uses Tünnes as a recognition name in radio traffic .
Tünnes and Schäl in the fine arts
In 1950, the Austrian sculptor Wolfgang Wallner Tünnes and Schäl was the first artist to create a four-meter-high group of figures with the typical houses of Cologne's old town, which was exhibited as a nail sculpture for the reconstruction of the Gürzenich in Cologne and is now in the Gürzenich. There is also a figurative representation of Tünnes and Schäl above the side portal of Cologne Cathedral facing the main train station, on the right side of the pointed arch.
Weekly paper
Tünnes und Schäl is also the name of a humorous weekly paper that the Cologne carnival hit composer Willi Ostermann published from 1930. However, it was discontinued in 1931.
Tünnes as a legal object
In 1993 the Cologne stunksitzung showed a crucifix with the inscription Tünnes instead of " INRI ". The sign was seized by the police following a criminal complaint for insulting religious societies. The objection of the director of the stunks meeting against the subsequent penalty order for DM 6000 was granted because of the priority of artistic freedom .
Single receipts
- ^ Werner Jung: Das neuzeitliche Köln , ISBN 3-7616-1590-6 , p. 227
- ↑ Where is the line with jokes about church and religion?
