Herzlich willkommen bei Lasst uns Lesen!
Heute lesen wir aus dem Zigarettenbilderalbum: Deutsche Kultur-Bilder – Deutsches Leben in 5 Jahrhunderten.
Inhalt:
00:00 Begrüßung
00:22 Bild 271 Krocketspiel
00:49 Bild 272 Kegelbahn
01:19 Bild 273 Pferderennen
01:49 Bild 274 Hochradfahrer
02:59 Bild 275 Truppentransport
03:30 Bild 276 Truppenheimkehr
04:04 XII. Abschnitt. 1875 bis 1900. Das Zeitalter der Technik – 2. Teil: Gründerzeit und Jugendstil
08:34 Bild 277 Markthalle
09:00 Bild 278 Berliner Straßenleben
09:31 Bild 279 Lokomotivbau
10:11 Bild 280 Maleratelier
10:48 Bild 281 Backstube
11:41 Bild 282 Weißbierwirt
Zigaretten-Bilderdienst Altona-Bahrenfeld Werk 9. Herausgegeben 1934
Wissenschaftliche Bearbeitung und Gestaltung der Texte: Dr. Wolfgang Bruhn
Welcome to another episode: “Let’s Read!” We continue with the German cultural images. We left off at: the age of technology and are now at games, hunting and warfare. Picture 271: CROCKET GAME. In the last century, croquet was a lawn game popular with young and old, but in our
Time it has been replaced by the much older game of golf. Just as in golf into a hole, in croquet the ball must be driven with the wooden bat through low iron arches that are set into the ground in a specific arrangement and at regular intervals. Picture 272: BOWLING ALLEN.
In earlier centuries, skittles were set up anywhere. Today it is only played on the slightly sloping bowling alley. The simple tracks only have a raised central plank on which the ball runs, the better ones consist of parquet flooring. There are several types of games depending on the number of pins standing.
Picture 273: HORSE RACE. Until the beginning of the 19th century, horse races in which spectators place bets on the victory of the horses were limited to England (so-called “derby”). Then racing with the aim of breeding full and half-bloods also became native to Germany. Hamburg, Baden-Baden, Hoppegarten, etc. created racetracks
Where international races take place as major social events. Picture 274: BICYCLE RIDER. The forerunner of the modern bicycle was the penny farthing, which emerged around 1870 and is now only demonstrated in stunt riding. Getting on and off and riding this bicycle
Was very difficult. The penny-farthing could never have become a popular vehicle, which the so-called safety bike with two wheels of the same size that followed it later developed into. When it comes to the penny farthing, I’m honestly wondering
Why the idea of using two wheels of the same size at the same time didn’t come to mind straight away. Maybe it’s because you need a chain for a normal bicycle, because as you can see, there is no chain for a penny farthing.
You only drive the front wheel, so the pedals are only on the front wheel. But didn’t they have chains in 1870? These are the chains that we know today on bicycles, bicycle chains. I’m not sure now and I’m too lazy to check. They’ll have their reasons… whatever… Picture 275: TROOPS TRANSPORT.
Troop transport was particularly practiced in the maneuvers of the old army. It depended on the rapid deployment – in the event of mobilization – whether the hostilities took place on home soil or in enemy territory. The enormous, well-thought-out rail transports
In the last wars are due not least to the protection of our German borders. Yes. You can protect German borders. Let’s continue with… Picture 276: TROOPS HOMECOMING. The return of the victorious troops from the 1871 war was a particularly festive event. They returned home to the revived German Empire.
The bond between the army and homeland was celebrated everywhere with an enthusiastic reception. Social differences temporarily took a back seat to the shared joy and hope for unity among the German tribes. That was the Age of Technology Part 1. And now we come to the final section in this book.
XII. Section. 1875 to 1900. The age of technology – part 2: Wilhelminian style and Art Nouveau. Despite many crises and increasing clouding of the political horizon, a nice paraphrase… which ultimately brought about the world war, the new German Empire was
Blessed with four decades of peace, during which, in addition to the already existing strong army, it also created an important fleet and colonies acquired that every great power needs: for the duty-free import of the missing raw materials, for the sale of its own export goods and finally as a necessary
Living space for its growing population. For the German fleet and the protection of the North Sea coast , it was important that the British Heligoland came to Germany in 1890 through an exchange for Zanzibar and was developed as a naval base alongside the war ports. The economic advancement continued. In the 1970s, numerous
Ventures that had been founded prematurely and based on speculation collapsed again – these years were called the “founding era” – but these consequences of the victorious war and the political reorganization only temporarily affected the upswing. The growth of the cities
Continued to increase and with it the development from small towns to large cities and the development of individual large cities into cosmopolitan cities of international standing. The imperial capital Berlin in particular soon surpassed all other German cities in terms of population. Technical inventions also
Progressed at the same pace that the development of the natural sciences had already set for decades. The telegraph became one of the most important transmitters of messages across the ocean from continent to continent. In addition, there was the long-distance transmission of what was spoken
On the telephone. Oil and petroleum lamps had already been replaced by gaslight. The invention of electric light brought brightness that had never been achieved before. The engine gradually began to displace the previously irreplaceable horse power in local transport. The
Age of the automobile and film (cinematograph) was already dawning, and just a few years after the turn of the century, the first dirigible airship successfully took to the air. – These inventions greatly increased the demands of life. But the gap between civilization and culture also spread. While civilization made unprecedented progress,
Culture and artistic taste became shallow and externalized. Value was placed on representative and magnificent presentation, without asking about their authenticity. The great cultural critic Friedrich Nietzsche fought in vain against “philistine education” and deception. In art, the imitation and indiscriminate use of historical styles (architecture, furniture) continued until,
At the end of the century, a new desire to create became noticeable, striving for its own true and material-appropriate form and finding expression in the new “Art Nouveau”. But even before the World War, other reformatory and revolutionary currents were making their
Presence felt in the liberal and applied arts. The “Deutscher Werkbund” was founded and deepened the understanding of natural, simple, tasteful work and work of value. In particular, architecture sought new paths that would raise Germany’s artistic reputation everywhere, turning away from traditional, meaningless “styles”.
She has not always escaped the danger of a certain impoverishment in favor of an overly technical and sober solution. After the severe shocks of the World War and the sad post-war experiences, the German people have finally reflected on themselves again. Only now has
The ground for a genuine German folk culture been prepared, on which creative and culture-receptive people can develop. – The loving look back at five centuries of German past in life and art can be our guiding star and guide to the future.
This collection is intended to contribute to this. If she completes this task, her goal has been achieved. So. Lastly, I hope that what I read here works for you. It definitely does for me. And then we come to: statuses and professions. Oh! The hat, no… Image 277: MARKET HALL.
Apart from a grain hall that already existed in Paris around 1770, the market hall was only created in the second half of the 19th century. The growing traffic, the increasing population of the big cities and the increased contrast between town and country made such headquarters
Of the big city , intermediate and retail trade necessary to secure the supply of food. Image 278: BERLIN STREET LIFE. The Berlin street scene at the end of the 19th century was primarily characterized by the horse-drawn omnibus, proudly
Praised as a means of transport in the big city. The tall, multi-armed gas candelabras were also seen as a technical advance in lighting . The mounted policeman in pre-war uniform and the flower woman completed the characteristic image of the imperial capital. Figure 279: LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION.
In 1835 Stephenson delivered his English for the first German railway Nuremberg-Fürth. Locomotive, in 1838 the Uebigau shipyard built the first German locomotive (Leipzig-Dresden). Since then, German locomotive construction has begun to flourish. An exemplary patriarchal relationship between the factory owner and his foreman and worker led to a great upswing since the founding years.
Yes, patriarchy is mentioned in a positive way here, but well, that comes from a completely different time. Let’s just carry on. PAINTING STUDIO Image 280: PAINTING STUDIO. The artist’s studio around 1880 was more like a salon than a workspace. Heavy furniture, plush draperies, palm trees and arrangements of peacock feathers and artificial flowers,
So-called Makart bouquets (after the famous Viennese painter Hans Makart), fill the studio. It was the time of parvenu-like surface culture that preferred the “socially acceptable” salon artist to the real one. Picture 281: BAKERY. Although baking was done in the household for centuries, as is often the case in
Rural areas today, the bakery trade is one of the oldest trades that first emerged in places where many people lived together. Today, the housewife in the city only bakes the holiday cake herself or sends the mixed dough to the bakery to bake. Well, that’s no longer the case today.
Nowadays everyone has their own oven, so… I’ve never heard of anyone giving the finished dough to the baker. Why? But well, maybe it was necessary back then, or maybe not everyone had an oven back then. And then it makes sense to go to the bakery. Of course it has a high-performance oven.
But okay… And let’s come to the last picture for today. Picture 282: WEISSBIERWIRT. The wheat beer, a beer made from wheat malt, is, like the Leipzig “Gose” or the Braunschweig “Mumme”, a famous Berlin specialty. There used to be a whole series of
Rustic wheat beer bars, now mostly abandoned, which Berliners liked to go to in order to drink their white beer with the obligatory Korn or “raspberry shot” from wide, handleless glasses. And that’s it for today. I wish you a nice evening, nice day, nice night.
And then we’ll see you again in the next episode. At? Correctly! Let’s read! See you next time! Take care! Bye!
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Happy new year for you !