On a current occasion, this week I'm digging hard into everything that comes across as really snarky, biting and nasty in Frankfurt. Like the caricatures of the two F.A.Z. cartoonists Greser & Lenz, which provoke, so that on the reader's letter page of the newspaper is then properly argued: insofar as this argument is constructive, this can be called in the best sense as "compare opinions" or politically as: "lively debate culture".
Also on current occasion I googled - earlier I would have written: looked up in the Duden - what satire wants: to mock, to criticize, to denounce. By no means every mouse on the street. Who would know this better than the people of Frankfurt, from whose ranks came the satirist Friedrich Stolze. Stoltze liked to formulate in dialect and used his words as a weapon against politics and society.
Who is Friedrich Stoltze now, some of us newcomers may ask? Not everyone knows the man, but the saying "un es will mer net in de Kopp enei, wie ka nor e mensch net von Frankfort sei" has certainly been encountered by many, and after Goethe he is considered the city's most famous son. (So a name to remember if you want to score points in Frankfurt)
Political satire and wit lay close together in the critical and linguistically gifted journalist. This year would have been his 200th birthday and that's why the Frankfurter Sparkasse, which maintains the<link http: www.frankfurt.de sixcms _blank> Stolze Museum, is celebrating "his tolerance, democratic tradition and justice." For Museum Night, there was a reading with musical accompaniment at the People's Theater on Saturday, April 23.
What else was found abysmal and evil on this Saturday? Here are my favorite dates at places that also offer stimulating things throughout the year:
+ At the <link http: www.museum-giersch.de _blank>Museum Giersch of Goethe University: With biting humor and bizarre exaggeration, the works of Jewish artist Ludwig Meidner recount his intense experiences in exile in London in 1939-53, accompanied by jazz music and delicious food. 8pm-2pm
+ at <link http: caricatura-museum.de _blank>caricatura museum: BeCK, Peng and Rudi Hu and the money boxes to go with them. Drawings of the New Frankfurt School in the permanent exhibition; special exhibition, cartoon show and the public finally learns how to colour blobs properly. In addition, the Spardosen -Terzett hits the pages in a small cast and with great musicality.
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