Murals
You, Blue Goose, will stand forever!
“The humor in the goose with happy drinking
– he will soon wear out the hardships of life!”
An Eulenspiegel, a symbol of mischief, stretches his index finger towards a blue goose. Does humor awaken in her, the vitality of humor and exuberance? It is a scene that is reminiscent – albeit with a great deal of imagination – of Michelangelo: the limp body of Adam in the Sistine Chapel lies before its creator and is about to be divinely awakened. Are there Sistine geese in addition to the Capitoline geese in Rome? That’s probably not far off the mark, the mural is a corruption of the kind that was often displayed on the free walls above the tables in the 19th century to entertain guests and as a topic of conversation. Today one would say: “highly Instagrammable!”
Another emblem also borrows from great art:
“Where the hair gently flutters peacefully /
to blow kindly on human foreheads /
you see snakes here and vipers /
the poison-swollen bellies bloat.”
Schiller is that, The Cranes of Ibycus, in the Goose it becomes:
“… you can only see beaks chattering :/
You, Blue Goose, will stand forever!”
A rather Germanic folk song from 1848 must be believed in this, the original of which reads:
“Come, ye multitudes,
to the German Rhine beach /
do you want to experience real pleasure /
“Oh, give me your hand.”
The Rhine can’t flow that fast, it becomes the Salzach, to which the crowds of people are supposed to flock, because they are there “several hundred years ago / got the Blue Goose”.
This is just about politically correct, unlike the last emblem, which refers to a children’s song and the “little girl” hypocritical in front of that “Hunter’s Man” warns in the form of a fox, “You can’t say that he stole the goose.”
Please let us look at the humor of the past with mildness – we have yet to prove that, looking back, ours is the better one.
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