Intercultural Week and the Johannisnacht. During Johannisnacht, the so-called ″Gautschen″, the traditional printers baptism, takes place on the stage at Liebfrauenplatz...

printers' tradition: to perform a public printer's "baptism", the so-called "Gautschen". This act is supposed to cleanse all sins during the apprenticeship,...

because of the excesses. A reminder of it still exists in the custom of Gautschen. Hazing Leni Arnold, Die akademische Deposition, in: Jena soll leben....