Baldanders

Baldanders is an extremely convoluted plot shape which seems to possess the properties of a chameleon and Proteus.

Originally a literary creation Hans Sachs (1494-1576), was known Baldanders primarily by the fantastic picaresque novel Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668 ) by Grimmelshausenmuseum. This pushes the protagonist in a forest on a stone figure representing a god from an ancient Germanic temple. When he touched the figure with his finger, she says she is Baldanders ( " each other " ) and successively takes the form of a man, an oak, a sow, apart enough, even a sausage, an overgrown with clover meadow, a flower, a tapestry and several other things to. At the end Baldanders will again be the man to Simplicius in various skills - teaching - among other things is to talk to inanimate objects.

Jorge Luis Borges also leads in the 1974 edited by him Bestiary El libro de los seres Imaginarios a Baldanders on.

Based on Hans Sachs ' creation composed the group Ougenweide the song Soon otherwise, in which the figure Baldanders plays the main role. Baldanders symbolizes the continuous change that governs the world and thus the people. Further, the song is the change of the individual that is associated with this change. As a key message the song expresses the positive hopes associated with a change. The song was covered by ASP 2011.