Re: grgr (28): "frölich" (624)

[Otto Sell]

on: - Frisch - Fromm - Fröhlich -Frei:

Weisenburger says "frölich" (624) is a misprint, corrected in the Bantam
edition. His translation says: "Fresh, Faithful, Frisky, Free," whereas
Douglas Fowler says "Fresh, Pious, Happy, Free." When I think of  the letter
"F" concerning contemporary German lifestyle "fressen, ficken, fernsehen"
would be more fitting, thus a more hedonistic vision of life.

Invented was the motto by "Turnvater Jahn," Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778 bis
1852), http://www.toppoint.de/~cethegus/personen/j/jahn.html, even today
many gyms are still called "Jahnhalle." According to this site
(http://www.rheno-palatia.de/korp/burschen.html) Jahn was very nationalistic
(but in the anti-Napoleonic, more democratic sense of the early 19th
century) and Member of a "Burschenschaft" and a "Freikorps." I wonder why
and when this originally progressive impulse turned (or was turned, by
whom?) into German militarism and anti-Semitism?

http://www.hamburg.de/Behoerden/Pressestelle/1899/F/5.htm - Turnfest 1898

Frisch im Handeln, fromm im Wollen.
Froh im Dulden und Tragen,
frei im Denken und Fragen.
Das sind die F, die musst du merken,
sie können zu allen Dingen Stärken.

source: Vereinsnachrichten TSG 1846 Darmstadt:
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~webtramp/de/info/felsing.html

Otto
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Kai wrote:
Subject: grgr (28): "frölich" (624)
  being derived from "froh" (= glad, happy, cheerful, blithe, gay, in good
  spirits etc.), "frölich" (624) would be in standard german "fröhlich".
 kfl