printers' tradition: to perform a public printer's "baptism", the so-called "Gautschen". This act is supposed to cleanse all sins during the apprenticeship,...
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Intercultural Week and the Johannisnacht. During Johannisnacht, the so-called ″Gautschen″, the traditional printers baptism, takes place on the stage at Liebfrauenplatz...
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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....
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