Flatulist

Kunstfurzer (English: flatulists ) have the ability to modulate the pitch of the descending air currents and be able to produce such controls, the corresponding noise that chords or recognizable melodies arise. In the 1900s, the genre of Kunstfurzens was still popular enough to feed artists like the Frenchman Joseph Pujol (Le Pétomane ) full-time. Pujol has performed with his show in Paris Moulin Rouge.

In André Heller's avant-garde amusement park Luna Luna - a nice pleasure came in 1987, Kunstfurzer in the so-called " Palace of Winds " on. The response of the audience turned out differently. While some guests were delighted, others accused the organizers, the sounds come only from the audio tape.

One of today's most famous Kunstfurzer is Britain's Paul Oldfield, who under the pseudonym "Mr. Methane " occurs. Although he retired in 2006, in the RTL show Supertalent it occurs occasionally still on, most recently in October 2009.

Literary processing

In the literary journal New German literature appeared in 2001 Marcus Hammer Schmitt's story " Death of an artist ", which deals with the history of the Kunstfurzers Filemon Geprägs.