Teschek
Teschek or Deschek is a pejorative term in the Austrian-German or Viennese language area for a person who is always exploited and who is always the disadvantaged. The name is derived from the Hungarian term tessék [ ˈtɛʃe: k ], which stands for “how please?” In questions and for “please (very)!” In exclamation sentences .
Hugo von Hofmannsthal used the term in his libretto for the opera Arabella by Richard Strauss , when the rich landowner Mandryka held the bulging wallet in front of the impoverished Viennese Count Waldner with the beautiful request: "Teschek, serve yourself" .
As Teschek also a card game for four to six people is called, which is available in many variations. The Teschek is the loser of the game.
The term Generation Teschek was introduced by the Wiener Zeitung Die Presse in an editorial in summer 2009 . He stood for a young generation that no longer takes part in current affairs. The article met with a lively response.
literature
- Herbert Fussy : In good Austrian: a dictionary of everyday language . öbv & hpt, 2003, ISBN 978-3-20904348-1 , p. 122
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Ostarrichi dictionary
- ↑ Art or: May it, if you please, be a little more in: Neue Musikzeitung , 9/2000
- ↑ Hugo Kastner, Gerald Kador Folkvord, The Great Humboldt Encyclopedia of Card Games , Schlütersche, 2005, ISBN 9783899940589 , p. 422, (available from Google Books)
- ↑ Christian Ultsch, Generation Teschek , in: Die Presse, leading article from August 20, 2009