Cumulative song

A Zählgeschichte (also Zählreim ) is a form of poetry. In Zählgeschichten is either ascending or descending counted the principle is similar in this case the children's pack your suitcase ( " I'm packing my suitcase ...") only that just the text is already defined by the author of the verses. The story, however, not serves as a "random " (see nursery rhyme ) but for entertainment or as a game itself

Molding

Simple Zählgeschichten only count up or down, the verses are always the same length. A typical example of this is the nursery rhyme Ten Little Indians, the traditional Christmas song The Twelve Days of Christmas or the Ten Little song Jägermeister by Die Toten Hosen from the year 1996.

More complex Zählgeschichten usually count up the verses are with each run longer and longer with each pass a new rhyme is added. A well-known example of this is The farmer sends out the Jockel, the text goes here probably due to the already over 2500 years old Aramaic folk song Chad Gadja.

According to the folk song collector Ludwig Erk and Franz Magnus Böhme the oldest surviving written Zählgeschichte is the song of the twelve holy figures. Thus the literary genre of Zählgeschichte would be an originally Jewish tradition:

Erk and Bohme remember to:

" Narrative songs in each stanza the Predicted backwards repeatedly and at the conclusion of the whole is listed in reverse order, hot Zählgeschichten; they served as a pastime and memory exercise. The oldest is the sacred of the twelve numbers. Maybe it is the name derive. Meinert ( Kuhländ. folk songs p. 442 ) is probably in error when he states the following: This type songs hot Zählgeschichten because one uses them in the rock bars, to excite the emulation: in so much as to lecture a rhyming line is required, abzuspinnen a thread and this count after those. Skilful spinner bring it there, and abzusingen abzuspinnen before finished another with a thread and the one line rhyme or a short verse ' the longest verse. "