COME TOGETHER 14/02/2021 CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL

Fastnacht in Rottweil

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- Current Situation (Corona, Festivities, Activities of people) - Location of Rottweil and Carnival in Southern Germany - Memories - Origin of Carnival („Fastnacht“, Night(s) before Fasting Period) - Religious Background - Masks, Costumes, Jesters (Characters) - Carnival Parade, Preparations, Customs - Sources - Video of a carnival parade in Rottweil

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- No parades - No dancing - No music - No meeting in pubs - No eating out - No tourists, visitors - No economic profit - No joy, happiness, fun CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL MEMORIES

- Freezing cold - Walk of 45 minutes into town - Waiting for the parade - Singing for the sweets, oranges, pretzels - Proudly coming back home - Having tea with „Berliners“ from our mother - Kind of doughnut filled with jam CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL ORIGINS - Clear religious origin (days before fasting period, Ash Wednesday) - No meat after festivities, no eggs, but fish was allowed - Economic consequences: butchers had to make a profit to survive the fasting period, all fat had to be used up (doughnuts!) - Poultry had to be handed in to estate owners, landlords - Symbolic meaning: no sex allowed, many weddings in the Middle Ages during Carnival - Customs go back to 14th century in Rottweil (written proofs!) - Festivities were accepted by Catholic Church

CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL ORIGINS

Dance of the butchers in Nuremberg in 1449 •Music •Decorated tree •Sausages connecting dancers •Only men (Fellow guild members) •Toy horses •Riders with whips •One woman on a unicorn CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND

Reference: excavation in Ulm References: in a church in Rottweil

Civitas diaboli: masks of devils, later masks of jesters (refers to time before Ash Wednesday) Ulm: 15th century Rottweil: 1495/96 CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL MASKS, COSTUMES, JESTERS (CHARACTERS)

Gschell Fransenkleidle Schantle Federehannes

Biss Turk, Muslim Farmer, man Farmer´s wife Pieter Bruegel d.Ä. 1559 Wien Kunsthistorisches Museum. Fight between Fastnacht and Fasten (carnival and fasting) CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL MASKS, COSTUMES, JESTERS (CHARACTERS)

Brieler Rössle / “Horses from Briel“ Guller /“Cock“ or “Rooster“ with a doughnut CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL CARNIVAL PARADE, PREPARATIONS, CUSTOMS

Getting ready CARNIVAL IN ROTTWEIL SOURCES

Werner Mezger: Rottweiler Fastnacht, Vöhrenbach 2004. Wilhelm Kutter: Schwäbisch-alemannische Fasnacht, Künzelsau 1976. Werner Mezger: Das Grosse Buch der Schwäbisch-Alemannischen Fasnet, Stuttgart 1999