The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are residents of Schilda, a fictional German town of fools , a butt of jokes in German Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition...

Men of Gotham hail from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire German Schildbürger residents of fictitious – not the actual town of Schilda. Stories about...

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...

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...

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;...

decisions, similarly to the English Wise Men of Gotham or the German Schildbürger. The jokes were almost always about silly solutions to problems. Some...

provoke laughter; Latin: baburnus, stultus and compares the word with "Schildburger". Making fun of peasants was common in 16th century German drama, drawing...

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...

literary production was almost without a parallel. His best story is The Schildbürger (The Fooltownite: 1823). He wrote a great many comedies, farces, and...

von Fritz Lienhard, 1899 Die Vorherrschaft Berlins, 1900, online Die Schildbürger. Ein Scherzlied vom Mai, 1900 Burenlieder, 1900 Münchhausen. Ein Lustspiel...