The Fair offered young people, especially in earlier times one of the few occasions einmal richtig über die Stränge zu schlagen, sich darzustellen und zu beweisen – nicht zuletzt mit Blick auf das andere Geschlecht.
Schießbude, „Hau den Lukas“ und Elektrisiermaschine, die man(n) keinesfalls losließ, wenn der Zeiger noch auf „Halbstarker“ oder gar „Schlappschwanz“ stand, boten u.a. Gelegenheiten zur Selbstdarstellung; die auf vielen Schützenfesten und Kirmessen obligatorischen Prügeleien in aufgeheizter und angetrunkener Stimmung zu vorgerückter Stunde in weit weniger schadloser Form ebenfalls.
Formen körperlicher Auseinandersetzung wurden aber auch von den Schaustellern in vielfältiger As institutionalized, for example in the Stabuffs , in which ring and boxing matches were played. The fights were there no means always fake, and many young people from the suburbs and surrounding villages took advantage of the opportunity it in front of their "buddies" or their "bride" with a fair wrestler or boxer record. If they last while very provocative, it was the very unpleasant consequences for the challengers ...
also was fought on the fairgrounds for a long time also
In the 17th and 18 Century enjoyed the art of fencing in the bourgeois milieu of the cities great popularity, also wanted to emulate the nobility.
There were ups by companies fencers, fencing and fencing-schools worldwide. Wandering journeymen and traveling entertainers of this fashion led to the following well before exhibition matches, and with the journeymen often focused on begging in the foreground, so that the word "fight" "beg" is increasingly synonymous with was. (1)
primarily propelled fighter belonged to the group of "tapping fencers" who had located under the "dishonest people" on a very low level, less identified with Predators. (2)
Although the "arts" of the knock Fechter, aimed solely at the show effect and maximizes the entertainment value enjoyed among serious fencers an extremely bad reputation they had as a fairground attraction a big encouragement for ordinary people:
"Therefore comes when etwan a new blatant, jugglers or Spiler angelanget is that one looks to see the with large inlet and heard: in particular, runs up the volume, when new two fighters and fencers arrive to see how this same walk loss to another, interpopola parry cut, to enable sound and blows. " (3)
"Specific types of knock fencing" were the so-called "cat's Knights". They showed risky animal baiting and fighting, bringing the total activities of the knock Fechter remember to ancient Roman gladiators and Tierhetzschauspiele. (4)
knock and Fechter Cats Knights were in the 17 and 18 Century counted indiscriminately with the other traveling artists, an equation, in particular, allows to draw conclusions about the reputation of jugglers and comedians:
"For example, BC Gerber says in his book 'sins of the world (...): 'these are now the unfortunate jugglers, acrobats, jugglers, comoedianten, fire-eaters, knocking real and how the vermin all may be so named (...)'. " (5)
According to this equation, the manifestations itinerant artists were directed well as official measures often indiscriminately to several of these groups:
"(...) define the Bavarian land rights from 1533 and 1616, fol.164 that a child could be disinherited,` so without their parents' wishes in frivolous exercise and boys life issued, as was a Freyhartsbueb or Gauckler, or could be, to fight with the animals, umb money order. `" (6)
During the 18th Century waned, the interest on the public stage fencing, animal hunts, however, remained to the end of the century popular. Vienna even has created a lot of thought "Incited Heater" for several thousand spectators. (7)
do mock battles with swords, with the advent of the popular jousting tournaments and medieval markets, "the usually deliver an extremely ate picture of the bustle of the fairs of the Middle Ages, since the 80s of the 20th Century, a great renaissance.
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(1) Schaer, Alfred: The old German fencer and musicians. A contribution to German cultural history. Strasbourg 1901, p.33 (2) see Danckert, Werner: Dishonest people. The outlawed professions. Bern 1963, p. 224 (3) Swiss Idiotikon 1688th Vol.1, S.667, quoted Schaer 1901, p.51 (4) see Hampe, Theodor: The traveling people in the German past. Leipzig 1902 (= Monographs on German Cultural History, edited by George Steinhaufen.18.) S.11f; Schaer 1901, p. 41 (5) Schaer 1901, p.66 (6) Ibid p. 44 (7) see Hampe 1902, Supplement 2