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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
FKK Group Activity Day
Today's theme is FKK group activites, some of which are obvious, and some of which are puzzling. These men seem to be carrying someone and/or something that we can't see.
This may sound strange but I think they are carrying other people and one man in back is standing on those people and seems to be holding reigns like for a horse connected to two of the guys shoulders. So maybe it is a human chariot.
It's the German Freikörperkultur, which translates as "free body culture." It has been an enduring feature of German culture since the early 20th Century and even survived being suppressed during the Nazi era.
Also also discouraged during the early east German communist period. There is the well known anecdote about the left wing writer Anna Seghers, who used to spend the summers before (and after) WWII in a northern area called Ahrenshoop, with an FKK beach popular with the artists. In 1951 another ultra left wing stalinist intelectual Johannes R. Becher went to Ahrenshoop to combat the burgeois practice of FKK. He started insulting the naked people and told to an old naked lady "Aren't ashamed, you old pig?" Becher was then the GDR Culture Minister and He didn't recognize her. Few weeks later she went to Berlin in order the receive the GDR National Prize, First Class. And he had to present her the prize during a ceremony in one of the Berlin theaters. When he started the speech with "Dear Anna" she stopped him and said "For you I am always the old pig" If any of you can read German, the full history is at: https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article203105918/Actionszenen-der-Weltliteratur-Johannes-R-Becher-und-Anna-Seghers.html.
Thanks for the anecdote and the link to the full story. The DDR was a train wreck when it came to human and political rights, but their treatment of nudists and gays was in some ways rather advanced.
This may sound strange but I think they are carrying other people and one man in back is standing on those people and seems to be holding reigns like for a horse connected to two of the guys shoulders. So maybe it is a human chariot.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you are correct. I wish the guy up top wasn't cropped out of the picture.
DeleteOh yes, would have been nice to see the man up top.
DeleteSorry but what is FKK means??
ReplyDeleteIt's the German Freikörperkultur, which translates as "free body culture." It has been an enduring feature of German culture since the early 20th Century and even survived being suppressed during the Nazi era.
DeleteAlso also discouraged during the early east German communist period.
DeleteThere is the well known anecdote about the left wing writer Anna Seghers, who used to spend the summers before (and after) WWII in a northern area called Ahrenshoop, with an FKK beach popular with the artists.
In 1951 another ultra left wing stalinist intelectual Johannes R. Becher went to Ahrenshoop to combat the burgeois practice of FKK.
He started insulting the naked people and told to an old naked lady "Aren't ashamed, you old pig?"
Becher was then the GDR Culture Minister and He didn't recognize her.
Few weeks later she went to Berlin in order the receive the GDR National Prize, First Class. And he had to present her the prize during a ceremony in one of the Berlin theaters.
When he started the speech with "Dear Anna" she stopped him and said "For you I am always the old pig"
If any of you can read German, the full history is at:
https://www.welt.de/kultur/literarischewelt/article203105918/Actionszenen-der-Weltliteratur-Johannes-R-Becher-und-Anna-Seghers.html.
Thanks for the anecdote and the link to the full story. The DDR was a train wreck when it came to human and political rights, but their treatment of nudists and gays was in some ways rather advanced.
DeleteI have say, that does look rather fun. Not sure if I'd like to be a charioteer or a horse.
ReplyDeleteWell, the horses got to hold hands, so there is that.
DeleteTrue...now I want to try this..
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