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...

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...

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...

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...

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;...

works remained unpublished. His best novel is Die Schildbürger (1823), a comical novel about Schildbürger, residents of Schilda, a fictional German town...

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

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...

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

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

Kaiser-Ouverture, with the choir of men Three operas: Frau Inge, Eulenspiegel, Die Schildbürger Incidental music for three tragedies by Sophocles King Oedipus, Antigone...

Saxons, who may have introduced locals to Till Eulenspiegel and the Schildbürger chapbooks. He reports that the Romanian cycle includes punchlines which...

lebendiges Theater by illustrating 35 stage sets. His illustrations for Die Schildbürger appeared in the Feldbuchhandel [de] for the 63,000th time in 1942. For...

'Ich wünsch' mir was' (I'm wishing for something) (1968–1971), 'Wir Schildbürger' (1972), 'Natur und Technik' (nature and technology) (1972–1976) and...

in German, or dialectally, Wunner) – or was it a deed worthy of the Schildbürgers? – of what happened next. The villagers from Eschenau sought their footbridge...