Tingeltangel

Heinrich Zille , Tingeltangel , 1903

Tingeltangel (earlier also more often in the spelling Tingel-Tangel ) is a mostly disparaging word for a variety show , cheap dance hall or a traveling cabaret performance.

etymology

According to Otto Ladendorf's historical subject book (1906), the term onomatopoeic is based on the sound of percussion instruments (compare also the entry “ting tang tingel tangel” in the dictionary of the Brothers Grimm ). He comes from Berlin in the 1870s. There is also a connection with the word tingeln (to go through the province as an artist). According to Meyer's Large Konversations-Lexikon of 1909, the Tingeltangel "allegedly got their name after the comedian Tange, who performed his long-popular triangle song in the triangle building". According to other sources, the word Tingeltangel first appeared in this context in Hamburg, where there were many institutions with this name.

Origin and perception

The Tingeltangel is related to a form of performance that emerged in the second half of the 19th century as a competitor to the larger theater and circus companies and is related to the liberalized event legislation in the course of urbanization . According to Meyers Konversationslexikon from 1909, Tingeltangel is a "Berlin expression for singing halls of the lowest kind with burlesque singing lectures and performances", the operation of which requires a police permit. In England and France, it is usually as a music hall , in the US as vaudeville and in the German-language area as a variety program in music halls designated. It was a mixed numbering program in small event venues, which could consist of singing, dance, acrobatics and dressage performances as well as cabaret numbers .

The perception from a cultural and social point of view was consistently negative. In 1874 "Tingel-Tangel ... and lovers' theater" were called "planting and breeding grounds for prostitution ", against which the Berlin police department rightly took action. In 1877, the historico-political papers for Catholic Germany stated: “If the Paris cafe was chantant frivolous, the German Tingel-Tangel is mean. With his innate grace, the French knew how to soften what turned the German clumsiness into naked cynicism. "Official organs saw dangers in the theaters called Tingeltangel:" It is precisely through the connection of the restaurant business with the theater industry that the pernicious effect of dramatic frivolity becomes Almost met thousands. "

variants

• In the USA, the terms sideshow and burlesque were formed for certain variants .
• The names Sideshow Bob and Sideshow Mel from the television series The Simpsons are reproduced in German with Tingeltangel-Bob and Tingeltangel-Mel .
• After the First World War Tingeltangel was popular as a title and name for event venues: Karl Valentin had had a cabaret program called Tingeltangel since 1914 .
• Otto Rippert made the film Tingeltangel in 1922 , Gustav Ucicky followed with Tingel Tangel in 1927 .
• There was a Tingel-Tangel-Theater in Berlin since 1931 .

literature

• Paul Johannes: The Berlin Schützenfest and the Tingeltangel in Pankow. Verlag v. Friedrichs & Company, Berlin 1890.

Web links

Wiktionary: Tingeltangel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• textlog.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Hermann, Hans J. Stöhrig: Knaurs etymological dictionary. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-426-26258-4 , p. 955.
2. ↑ ting tang tingel tangel. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 21 : T – Treftig - (XI, 1st section, part 1). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935, Sp. 502 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
3. ^ Henry Vizetelly: Berlin Under the New Empire. Its Institutions, Inhabitants, Industry, Monuments, Museums, Social Life, Manners, and Amusements . Tinsley bros., 1879, pp. 284 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ^ Hermann Uhde: The city theater in Hamburg, 1827-1877: A contribution to the German cultural history . Cotta, 1879, p. 551 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Tingeltangel . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 19, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1909, p.  599 .
6. ^ Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Ministerial-Blatt for the Prussian internal administration . tape 40 , 1880.
7. ↑ Signals for the musical world . Bartholf Senff, Leipzig 1874, p. 121 ( books.google.com ).
8. ↑ Historisch-Politische Blätter for Catholic Germany . tape 80 . Munich 1877, p. 467 ( books.google.de ).
9. ^ Reichstag (ed.): Negotiations of the Reichstag . tape 59 , 1880, p. 920-925 .