Etepetete und Biedermeier wachsen auf einem Holz ... "
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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etepetete
German
Etymology
From German Low German. A reduplication of ete (“affected, finical”;), dialectally ete, possibly influenced by French peut-tre ;(“maybe”;).
Adjective
etepetete (not comparable)
1.(informal, dated, usually only predicative) hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted
Synonyms
(affected): geziert
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etepetete
Bedeutung
Info
geziert, zimperlich, eigen; uebertrieben fein, steif und konventionell
Beispiele
Ihr Benehmen ist sehr etepetete
Seine Mutter spricht immer so etepetete
synonyme zu etepetete:
geziert, gouvernantenhaft, pruede, verklemmt; (bildungssprachlich) affektiert, prezioes; (abwertend) altjungferlich, gespreizt, tantenhaft, zimperlich; (umgangssprachlich veraltend abwertend) affig, pimpelig, zickig
Herkunft
wohl berlinische Umformung von niederdeutsch ete, öte = geziert oder von franzoeisch être, peut-être = [kann] sein, vielleicht
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Biedermeier
ADJECTIVE
denoting or relating to a style of furniture and interior decoration current in Germany in the period 1815–48, characterized by restraint, conventionality, and utilitarianism.
synonyms:
conservative · traditional · traditionalist · conformist · bourgeois · old-fashioned · of the old school · formal · correct · proper · decorous · staid · small-town · suburban ·
petit-bourgeois
parochial · narrow-minded · bien pensant · comme il faut · Biedermeier · straight · square · strait-laced · stodgy · stuffy · stick-in-the-mud · fuddy-duddy
Original:
The name was constructed from the titles of two poems—"Biedermanns Abendgemuetlichkeit" (Biedermann's Evening Comfort) and "Bummelmaiers Klage" (Bummelmaier's Complaint)—which Joseph Victor von Scheffel had published in 1848 in the same magazine. As a label for the epoch, the term has been used since around 1900.
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Biedermeier
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Biedermeier period refers to an era in Central Europe between 1815 and 1848, during which the middle class grew in number, and arts appealed to common sensibilities. It began with the time of the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and ended with the onset of the European Revolutions of 1848. Although the term itself is a historical reference, it is used mostly to denote the artistic styles that flourished in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design. It had strong roots in Vienna where it would linger for a long time, and subsequently influence styles and periods to come.
History and background
The Concert of Europe ensured by the Austrian chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich enabled the period of peace in which Biedermeier sensibilities developed.
The Biedermeier period does not refer to the era as a whole, but to a particular mood and set of trends that grew out of the unique underpinnings of the time in Central Europe. There were two driving forces for the development of the period. One was the growing urbanization and industrialization leading to a new urban middle class, which created a new kind of audience for the arts. The other was the political stability prevalent under Klemens Wenzel von Metternich following the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The effect was for artists and society in general to concentrate on the domestic and (at least in public) the non-political. Writers, painters, and musicians began to stay in safer territory, and the emphasis on home life for the growing middle-class meant a blossoming of furniture design and interior decorating.
Literature
The term "Biedermeier" appeared first in literary circles in the form of a pseudonym, Gottlieb Biedermaier, used by the country doctor Adolf Kussmaul and lawyer Ludwig Eichrodt in poems that the duo had published in the Munich journal Fliegende Bl;tter. The verses parodied the people of the era, namely Samuel Friedrich Sauter, a primary teacher and sort of amateurish poet, as depoliticized and petit-bourgeois. The name was constructed from the titles of two poems—"Biedermanns Abendgemuetlichkeit" (Biedermann's Evening Comfort) and "Bummelmaiers Klage" (Bummelmaier's Complaint)—which Joseph Victor von Scheffel had published in 1848 in the same magazine. As a label for the epoch, the term has been used since around 1900.
Due to the strict control of publication and official censorship, Biedermeier writers primarily concerned themselves with non-political subjects, like historical fiction and country life. Political discussion was usually confined to the home, in the presence of close friends.
Typical Biedermeier poets are Annette von Droste-Hoelshoff, Adelbert von Chamisso, Friedrich Halm, Eduard Moerike, and Wilhelm M;ller, the last two of whom have well-known musical settings by Hugo Wolf and Franz Schubert respectively. Adalbert Stifter is a novelist and short story writer whose work also reflects the concerns of the Biedermeier movement, particularly with his novel, Der Nachsommer. As historian Carl Schorske puts it, "To illustrate and propagate his concept of Bildung, compounded of Benedictine world piety, German humanism, and Biedermeier conventionality, Stifter gave to the world his novel Der Nachsommer".