Statues - Hither & Thither

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Tübingen
Lkr. Tübingen
Baden-Württemberg

Marktplatz 5
(Innenhof)

Auseinandersetzung

Debate

Karl-Henning Seemann
1979

Description

Bronze sculpturegroup, showing a fat and a thin man, showing a discussion between a Gôg (an inhabitant of the old town of Tübungen) and a professor of Tübingen university, inspired by Gôgen-Witz (Gôg-joke), probably this one:

Em guada
Ein Tübinger Professor begeht einen gewöhnlich offenen Fußweg zur Zeit der Weinlese, in der der Weg für Unbefugte verboten ist.
Ein Gog ruft ihm zu: "Machschd, dass d' aus meim Wengert raus kommschd, du Siach, oder i hau dr d' Laif a´, dass d´ uf de Schdompa hoimgraddla muaschd."
Der Professor: "Ach entschuldigen Sie, ich habe das Verbot übersehen." Wengerter: "Drom sait mr´s jo au em Guada"

(who can translate this for us?)

Annotation

The same sculpture is in Tübingen, Düsseldorf and Braunschweig (on the sculptor's website it says 'Stuttgart' whre obviously Tübingen is meant).

Sculptor

Karl-Henning Seemann (Wismar 1934), German sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Tuemarkt, Figuren un Skulpturen.
Dampfwalze, Gogawitz.

Location (N 48°31'14" - E 9°3'13")

Item Code: debw226; Photograph: 30 September 2014
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