Dive bar
Dive is the slightly contemptuous term for a poor, disreputable tavern or gambling den.
Term
The word comes from the Latin spelunca dive bar or the Greek spelygx ( for cave ). So called, for example, Roman Late Antiquity the mithraea - scale underground temple of Mithras cult. In Pierer 's Universal - Lexicon of 1863 dive is a "dirty, unsightly place where common people congregate " and Meyers Great Conversation Lexicon of 1909 indicates, the term meant a " cavernous, dark, hidden space ".
Description
Since the use of the word " dive " very subjective fails, here only in general terms, such a local to show how it is often described in the literature. Then one finds dives mostly in disreputable neighborhoods, often in port areas or entertainment districts of large cities. Not necessarily, but often, stairs lead to the left in the basement restaurant. The lighting is dark, the ceiling low, the furniture old and worn. The air seems stuffy and is usually totally subsided. The clientele of these pubs often consists of dodgy people. The drinks are not expensive, yet the true hospitality can be taken advantage of.
The service at dive bars leaves something to be desired, the ambiance is often dirty and uninviting. Newcomers are regarded with distrust and prized by other guests. Demimonde and petty criminals often form the regulars.
In ancient times - and, finally, lies the origin of the word - was a visit to a dive well have life-threatening consequences. Firstly, there were repeated attempts to shanghai people ( in the 18th and 19th century), on the other hand they were also made easy drunk in many cases and then robbed. That this is not just purely literary relevant reports that show actual experience reports from the Middle Ages, of which give only a faint idea of the actual states late variants such as The Haunted Castle.
Songs for dive
- We sat in Johnny's tavern is a song that was often later sung by the youth movement and also of the Edelweiss Pirates. Originally it was a hit, which was created under the title They sat in Bobby's tavern about 1932. 1933, the song used in numerous textual variants. One begins with the words:
- Trude Herr sang in the 1960s, the hit titles in the tavern " To the old toad ".
- The honky-tonk played as Jenny by Bertolt Brecht so named role in The Threepenny Opera and sang his first Lotte Lenya.
- In the lyrics of the song Karamba, pelt, a whiskey of Heino from 1969 is often alluded to by " Don Fillipo, the old Spelunkenwirt ".
- The content of the song Honky Tonk Woman by the Rolling Stones, from 1969, which can be translated as Spelunkenfrau, is of such.
Goethe and dive
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote as number 69 in his epigram as " epigrams. Venice 1790 " authored poetry book to dive:
Other meanings
- Dive is also the name of a memory game by Uwe Rosenberg, in which two characters are sought that are compatible. It is a card game and was first released in Lookout Games.
- Scoundrels and dives is the name of a board game by Alex Randolph, which was released by Kosmos.
- Dive in vivo is referred to the annual neighborhood festival in Gattikon in Switzerland.
- 1929 turned the Austrian director EW Emo a silent film entitled " dive bar " with Paul Otto ( see also here).
- In Bad Pyrmont, there is a Spelunkenturm