Narrenschiff

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

      in the very beginning of his "histoire de la folie" [1961] michel foucault 
      profoundly writes about the narrenschiff motif.
                                                          närrisch: kfl

Otto schrieb:

> high,
> found this on my infopedia-cd:
> BRANT, Sebastian (1458?-1521), German poet and humanist, born in Strasbourg
> (now in France). He practiced and taught law at the University of Basel
> before returning to Strasbourg, where he became town clerk in 1501. Brant
> achieved great fame through his satirical poem Das Narrenschiff (The Ship of
> Fools, 1494), which tells of a shipload of 112 people looking for a fools'
> paradise. They all die because of their errant behavior. Each character
> represents a vice or folly of Brant's time. The poem formed the basis for
> Ship of Fools (1962), a novel by the American writer Katherine Anne Porter.
>
> Otto
>
> PS he also said this:
>     Ein jedes Ding, wann es ufkunt, Zum höchsten, fellt es selber zu grunt.
> (what goes ,up, must come down)
>
>