In contrast to the English, the Swiss are not particularly known for their sense of humour. Known we are squared rather than bünzlig, small, on time and accurately. Nevertheless, the country has some of the Comedy-posters-signs. You think of Emil, the skits in the ‘ 70s with its TV-not only in Switzerland but in the whole German-speaking region has celebrated successes. Or Hazel Brugger, who does this today. But what’s so funny, the Swiss are actually? And what we are to be laughed at? This questions has devoted an exhibition in the Swiss national Museum in Schwyz.
The rooms of the Museum are reminiscent of a tour through a house to find a toilet, a lounge, TV room. “This is due to more blocks of the subject. Humor is found everywhere in everyday life,” explains Pia Schubiger, exhibition curator of the “Made in Switzerland”. Where to put, finally, better TV skits and Swiss film Comedy scene in the style of the 60s furnished TV room? Of “Giacobbo/Müller” to Alfred Rasser (1907-1977) alias service-soldier Läppli and Charles Adrien Wettach (1880-1959) as a Clown Grock everything is help. Sofas and chairs invite you to Sit down, but especially to the common: “Laughing together With someone is something to see funny than to be alone. The Joint is Central,” says Schubiger more.
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What was criticized during the Corona again and again, in the Bauernstube its place: the provincial spirit. Only upon closer Inspection you realize that the carefully lined-up cushions on the bench to serve not only the comfort, but also amusement. Embroidered her with Lampoons, which were fixed in 1712, in Solothurn, to a bridge. So it reads for example: “Appenzell’d like to be funny, you skill but nit.”
Also, magazines can be funny. Proof of this is the “nebelspalter” is. The satirical magazine has been published since 1875 without a break, and is the oldest in the world! Through his lyrics and risque cartoons, he influenced whole generations in their political and humorous understanding. For the exhibition, the magazine has asked cartoonists from all over Switzerland to make a Illustration for topic “How ur works?”. Together with individual pieces of selected Swiss cartoonists such as, for example, Patrick Chappatte (53), who signed for the “New York Times”, drag it like a red thread through the whole exhibition.
Can one do this?
in addition to the different Transmission and presentation of types of humour, the exhibition also deals with the understanding. Children will not find the same things funny as a Teenager, women laugh about different than men. It is shown among other things in the toilet room. In the style of a Discoklos the walls are littered with writings and Graffiti. To read so-called latrines jokes are usually rather coarse. “This is precisely the issue. Just after #MeToo, you can ask whether you are allowed to wear such drawings at all. How far Humor should go?”, so Schubiger.
