Stammtisch

A regular table is both a group of several people who regularly meets in a bar, and the (usually larger and often round ) table, around which gathered this group. Master tables are not organized meetings and therefore only a voluntary, but mandatory association of participants.

The table is usually characterized by a more or less elaborate shield shaped and is therefore reserved for Stammtischrunde that meets there on a regular basis. The focus of such Stammtischrunde are the social gatherings, card games and often political or philosophical discussions. For the Stammtisch imputed, simplistic arguments, terms such as common table slogan, Stammtisch policy and Stammtisch level have been established that are used metaphorically also for political and social discussions outside of real regulars.

  • 2.1 The Stammtisch in the country
  • 2.2 The meeting in the city

History

Past

Especially in rural areas and small communities the membership was tied to the root table of a higher social status. Thus, a village regulars sat together until well into the second half of the 20th century, especially from local notables such as the mayor, doctor, pharmacist, teachers, foresters or wealthy farmers. The invitation to a non-locals to sit in the pub, was considered not self-evident appreciation of evidence. The same was true for the most part established in coffee houses Stammtische of writers and visual artists.

In the Iberian language area (Spain, Portugal, Latin America and Brazil), this has received in the local Tertulias of artists and intellectuals to this day. In the UK and Ireland many pubs served the function of the separation of the other guests in the form of private backrooms, if there was no input control for the entire restaurant.

Current importance

Today, many regulars are no longer tied to a social status. In today's regulars is especially the togetherness, intimacy and acting out of common interests in the foreground.

Socio-cultural aspects

The Stammtisch in the country

The Stammtisch is in the country for certain groups of people to be an important social meeting place. Here social relationships are maintained and replaced local news. Stammtische find in the country not only in the evenings, but often after the Sunday Mass under the name brunch instead. Some regulars also organize village festivals (such as May Day ) or other events. Thus, they have similar tasks as boys clubs.

The meeting in the city

In urban areas also Stammtisch rounds have formed special narrower subject areas since the late 1990s, often as loosely connected associations are performed and likewise the social gathering, such as the exchange of experiences and partly to the cross-linking also serve (eg parent strain tables). Network marketing organizations such as clubs or trade associations called regularly held, visitable for non- members events often referred to as "Open round tables ".

Famous Stammtische

  • ETA Hoffmann's Literary Stammtisch at Lutter and Wegner in Berlin.
  • The glasses, an artist meeting in a Berlin suburb of local, led in 1901 to the founding of the cabaret " smoke and mirrors ".
  • When literary Stammtisch in Düsseldorf rose wreath Hermann Schmitz Harry became friends with Hanns Heinz Ewers and Herbert Eulenberg that promoted his work.
  • At the criminals table met the elite of Leipzig, who were as survivors of the 1848 revolution democratic and progressive attitude.
  • The honest Seller dresses to Brunswick: An association created in the 19th century, the family table by Brunswick writers, artists and other personalities. The writer Wilhelm Raabe was their most famous member.
  • Brunswick Academic Wurstekommission: A Braunschweiger Stammtisch which receives personalities from the region. It is organized in a manner similar to the Brunswick clothes sellers.
  • During the Bonn Republic, the sewage workers, the conservative wing of the SPD deputies to Egon Franke met regularly in the Rhine Lust ( today is precisely at this point the House of History ) and from 1969 in the Kessenicher restaurant Kessenicher Hof reserved regulars. Among her guests were not only high-ranking politicians such as Helmut Schmidt, but also SPD - affiliated journalists.

Round tables in the literature

In the second half of the 19th century, the Stammtisch was considered a retreat area of räsonierenden small town bourgeoisie - see in contemporary realistic novels about Wilhelm Raabe The Horn of Wanza. The descent into the harmlessness informed the master table with - for example - the gazebo and the wreath. Wilhelm Busch also grappled with the parent table, for example in the picture story, the birthday or the particularist. In Vienna or Prague, the writers communicated but rather in relevant literary cafes than in pubs.

Regulars on TV

  • A Stammtisch was heavily inspired by the popular television program The International brunch with Werner Höfer as hosts and five international journalists and invited guests. A waitress served the round with drinks. Also, the transmission time (Sunday morning ) was adapted for this title.
  • Since 2007, the Bavarian Television transmits the broadcast Sunday Stammtisch series home is at home from master table of " Lansinger inn Brunnerwirt ".

Round tables on the radio

The NDR periodically sends an amusing Stammtisch round-table discussion entitled Breakfast at Stefanie.

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