Gemütlichkeit

Cosiness, pronunciation? / I derived from mind, is a subjectively perceived emotional state of well being triggered by subjectively -determined physical amplifier and / or situations. The word comfort is also used in English and in French ( la coziness ). The antonym is ' barrenness '.

Comfort featuring a man friendly, warm atmosphere and environment in which you feel comfortable. It is characterized by serenity, security, conflict freedom and carelessness. It brings calm in the hustle and bustle. Coziness tolerates no excitement, no hassle, no intrusive worries. It is also incompatible with simultaneous hard work, which can lead to comfort, but not itself represents. In art, the representation of coziness and freedom from conflict can act cheesy.

Etymology

The term coziness initially meant as " full of mind ". The Moravians used the term in the early 18th century in their writings in the sense of warmth. A new meaning he got in the Biedermeier period; in this phase coziness became a fashionable term in the sense of comfort, was by critics such as Joseph Gorres but also associated with nationalism and Germanness. Therefore coziness also got a negative connotation in the sense of inertia and a lack of courage.

Many intellectuals also criticize the coziness as an example of deceptive idyll. In literary works, such as by Odon von Horvath ( Tales from the Vienna Woods ) and Helmut Qualtinger (The Lord Charles ), the force as a typical " Viennese cosiness " has been unmasked as a liar and sneaky.

The writer Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807-1887) said in his two-volume work also One (written in the 1850s ) by the pejorative " Vettermichelsgemütlichkeit ".

Only in Danish, there are " hyggelig " One with the German "comfortable" about analog concept.

Others

The drinking song Ein Prosit of comfort - it is often played or sung at the Oktoberfest - has helped to spread the concept internationally.

Very well known in the German-speaking world is the song Trying out comfort from the Walt Disney film The Jungle Book. The formulation was dictum; the song has been covered several times.

1973 sued an English tourist his tour because his package tour have not been announced in the advertising brochure ' cosiness ' included in the Swiss Alps. The case as " Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd " is known in British art.