Verdrängung des Tarock durch Skat. Marginalien zum literarischen Leben des deutschsprachigen Brünn um 1900
| Title in English | The replacement of Tarot by Skat. In the margins of Brno's literary life around 1900. |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | For a long time, one could distinguish the Catholics of Brno from the Protestants in Central Europe by the card games they played. Robert Musil observed that many people in Brno were taking up Skat around 1900, just as many German speaking Austrians were joining "Away from Rome", the reform movement of the Pan-Germans, and just as they were getting more involved in the ethnic conflict. In a late novella of Ebner-Eschenbach "Der Herr Hofrat", Tarot is used as a balancing ritual, suitable for alleviating stress and animosity. The heightening of the ethnic tensions in Brno between 1882 and 1891 is apparent in the signs at the Municipal theater and the German House: "The House of Beauty and the Home of the Muses" changing to "To Honour and Adore our Town, the Fortress of our Nation". In one of the fragments of "The Man Without Qualities", does Tarot motivate the observations of Moosbrugger, the murderer. The balancing effects of Tartot have been -- from the point of view of the exiled Musil, who worked on the novel in the thirties -- have been lost, either by the replacement of Tartot by Skat or by Tarot being played in a routine soulless manner, without the positive effects. The Tarot game was over in Brno by then. |
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