V.V. (2) Eulenspiegel (Owlglass), Rachel

[jill]

my take. -jill

Otto Sell wrote:
> 
> Eulenspiegel is the "Wise Fool" who is showing the mirror to authorities and
> society. One of his "techniques" is that he can draw the real logic out of
> statements, returning and reversing it and applying it back on the original
> statement, deconstructing it this way (-and getting the laughter in the
> end).  

Devil with mirror pointed outward. Instead of showing us what an object
ought to do, it shows us what we see. And our position relative to the
mirror tells us, only in our interpretation of its distortion or it thus
capturing our position on something. Devil as critic mode, devil here
reflecting, deflecting and also seeing the expression of the watcher, which
all feels like a pornography. Which reminds me of the fall and Paradise
Lost (Milton) too. Howso? That's a theme paper on its own I realize. 

And what is Fasching, but the peak of the allowance of human merriness, in
many ways, the letting go of religion completely, in a pagan experience of
excess, being moved not only by one's own will but the will of the crowd at
large. It is the author within the carnival, being pushed, this way and
that, that is the play of wanting to be in the Fasching and realizing its
the end of a road, really, its mark as a "last of lasts" of sorts, a time
right before something else breaks out, a millenial allowance of believing
in what appears to be the most excessive of human decadence, to be followed
in stark contrast by...










a removal.. of what?

Which reminds us of an upcoming chapter. 

He belongs to the bigger context of the
> "world -turned-upside-down"-idea from Carneval, Fasching or Fastnacht in the
> middle ages.
> DDR-writers Christa and Gerhardt Wolf brought him in contact with the
> "Bauernkriege" (formerly termed as "frühbürgerliche Revolution" -Max
> Steinmetz, Günter Vogeler- before the Berlin Wall fell) in their 1972 "Till
> Eulenspiegel" (Aufbau Verlag, Berlin und Wismar, DDR 1972, Luchterhand
> Verlag, Neuwied und -Darmstadt, BRD 1973, Fischer TB, Hamburg 1976). He had
> been mentioned on  pamphlets during that early German revolutionary
> movement.
> Three phases:
> 1. 1476-1517 - increasing class-war.
> 2. 1517-1525/26 - Martin Luther
> 3. until 1535 - Thomas Müntzer, who is the hero of Werner Tübke's monumental
> picture (14x123 meters) in Bad Frankenhausen. Whoever visits Nordhausen
> should not miss seeing this too:
> http://www.panorama-museum.de/index.html...