Potboiler

As a potboiler or Pot Boiler an artistic work is referred to, in which the intention is in the foreground, to make quick money or to secure a permanent or stable income. It can be either to literary works, images, musical compositions, movies or even games. In the English language the term is occupied since 1854, he is also used in other languages ​​as a technical term.

To illustrate this, so were also " artistic values ​​" represented as salable. The word describes figuratively the compulsion of an artist having to earn a living, to make the fuel for firing up his cooking pot (English: Pot) to obtain.

One of the most famous potboiler is the Christmas story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It shows that work, that are written mainly earn from compulsion to money, not always are of average quality.