The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are residents of Schilda, a fictional German town of fools , a butt of jokes in German Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition...
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similar to other towns of fools: the English Wise Men of Gotham, German Schildbürger, Greek residents of Abdera, or Finnish residents of the fictional town...
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Men of Gotham hail from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire German Schildbürger residents of fictitious – not the actual town of Schilda. Stories about...
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Wright's Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems). In Germany there are the "Schildbürger", from the fictitious town of "Schilda"; in the Netherlands, the people...
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Wright's Early Mysteries and other Latin Poems). In Germany there are the "Schildbürger", from the town of Schilda; in the Netherlands, the people of Kampen;...
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decisions, similarly to the English Wise Men of Gotham or the German Schildbürger. The jokes were almost always about silly solutions to problems. Some...
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literary production was almost without a parallel. His best story is The Schildbürger (The Fooltownite: 1823). He wrote a great many comedies, farces, and...
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German towns which Wieland was critiquing. Abderit is a name for a 'Schildbürger', a naive and simple but also conceded person. The term likely targeted...
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provoke laughter; Latin: baburnus, stultus and compares the word with "Schildburger". Making fun of peasants was common in 16th century German drama, drawing...
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in German, or dialectally, Wunner) – or was it a deed worthy of the Schildbürgers? – of what happened next. The villagers from Eschenau sought their footbridge...
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