The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are residents of Schilda, a fictional (not the actual Schilda) German town of fools, a butt of jokes in German...
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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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Men of Gotham hail from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire German Schildbürger are residents of the fictional town of Schilda (as opposed to the actual...
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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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works remained unpublished. His best novel is Die Schildbürger (1823), a comical novel about Schildbürger, residents of Schilda, a fictional German town...
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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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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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'Ich wünsch' mir was' (I'm wishing for something) (1968–1971), 'Wir Schildbürger' (1972), 'Natur und Technik' (nature and technology) (1972–1976) 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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