Tünnes and Schäl
Tünnes and peel are two legendary figures from the Hänneschen puppet theater of the city of Cologne.
The name Tünnes is the Rhenish form of Anthony. Tünnes is represented as knollennasiger, rustic type with a peaceful mind and a certain shrewdness.
Peel refers on one hand to the squint of the protagonist. The term implies the other hand, in the Kölsch dialect bad or wrong, so that the name is ambiguous on purpose, see also Schälsick. The figure is slimmer than Tünnes and always wears a tuxedo. His character is represented sly, cunning, and even sneaky.
History
Johann Christoph Winter, founder of the first Cologne Hänneschentheaters, established in 1803 as the Tünnes figure in his ensemble. The introduction of the figure of the peel in the 1850s is of Customs experts on winter annoyance at Franz Mille Malevich, despite the different spelling attributed an ancestor of the People's actor Willy Millowitsch, who ran a competing puppet theater at the Schälsick.
Tünnes and peeling as Kölsche originals
The duo are characters that never existed in reality. However, since they have, in the opinion of many Cologne numerous idiosyncrasies of the inhabitants of the city, they are still counted among the Kölschen originals that usually have really lived. Due to the high level of awareness outside of the puppet theater tells you not only in Cologne a variety of " Tünnes - and - peel " jokes. To date, the control center of Cologne transporting enterprises Tünnes used as the name recognition to radio communications.
Tünnes and peeling in the visual arts
1950 was created by the Austrian sculptor Prof. Wolfgang Wallner Tünnes and peeling as a 4 -meter-high statue group with the typical houses of the old town of Cologne, which was issued as plastic nail for the reconstruction of Gurzenich in Cologne and now stands in Gurzenich. Moreover, there is a figurative representation of local humor and peeling on the side facing the main railway Portal of the Cologne Cathedral, on the right side of the pointed arch.
Weekly
Tünnes and peeling is also the name of a humorous weekly paper that issued the Cologne Carnival pop - composer Willi Ostermann from 1930. However, it was already set again in 1931.
Tünnes as a legal object
In 1993, the Cologne Stunksitzung showed a crucifix with the inscription Tünnes instead of " INRI ". The sign was confiscated by the police after a complaint for abuse of religious societies. The objection of the director of Stunksitzung against the subsequent penalty order of DM 6000, however, was upheld because of the primacy of artistic freedom.