Santa Claus
That Santa Claus is a symbol figure of the Christmas Giving. It is explained as a friendly old man with long white beard, red kutte, gift bag occupied with white fur and rod. After the tradition it attaches the "good" children Christmas eve (and/or at the night of on that coming commercial artist Haddon Sundblom as crucial collecting main for the creation of Coca Cola Santa Claus. Also Russian Santa Claus Vaeterchen frost one took to this shape directly.
Santa Claus
European emigrants brought the sink Nikolaus custom also into those . In particular in the Netherlands colonies that became feest celebrated, particularly sank Nikolaus also the patron of again Amsterdam, the later New York was. From Sinterklaas became Saint Claus and finally Santa Claus.
The today's popular myth of Santa Claus, with one of Pay pulled flying carriage travels, secretly by the fire-place to the houses rises and there the gifts distributed, goes back on that anonymous poem published The Night before Christmas (in former times it became usually Clement Clarke of moorlands attributed, today occasionally major Henry Livingston Jr., in addition, this writing up is not completely secured). The author calls in the poem also the names of its pays: The ago, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Thunder and Lightnings. Rudolph came only by a poem of Robert L. May in addition, that the collecting main for the well-known Christmas carol Rudolph, the talk Nosed Reindeer of Johnny Marks supplied.
Off the ethnic German drew Cartoonist Thomas Nast Pictures of Santa Claus for the magazine Harper's Weekly, which already showed it with noise beard and rod.
Red-white Santa Claus
Already the representation of the Nikolaus in the spread world-wide is quite similar to the today's picture of Santa Claus. Into that then more and more the red-white robe of Santa Claus became generally accepted, as we often see it today. The New York Times wrote : "a standardized Santa Claus appears New Yorker children. Size of, weight, Statur are just as standardized as the red garb, the cap and the white beard ". This picture became of out coming commercial artist and Cartoonisten Haddon Sundblom taken up, that for those Coca Cola company in the context of a werbekampagne drew Santa Claus, with a face of a retired Coca Cola coworker. He drew each year at least until 1966 one Santa Claus for the Coca Cola advertisement and coined/shaped so lastingly the conception of this ' modern ' Santa Claus. This advertisement was so successful that this appearance of Santa Claus is falsely attributed Coca Cola, although it already admits several years before beginning of the werbekampagne was. However the annually returning advertising campaigns of the lemonade company in any case might have contributed to its world-wide spreading.
Ded Moros/Vaeterchen frost
Those variant of Santa Claus is the art figure Ded Moros (also Djeduschka Maros), to German: "Vaeterchen frost".
Residence
The American Santa Claus lives to North pole. Also European Santa Claus is located in the high north; thus it lives for instance in the opinion of the Finns in the lapplaendischen Korvatunturi, after conviction that Sweden in Dalarna.
Letters to Santa Claus
Many children send in the Vorweihnachtszeit letter with desires to the Weihnachtmann. These become in many states in the German-language, angloamerikanischen and Scandinavian culture area in specially furnished Weihnachtspostaemtern collected and mostly also answers.
Nikolausphysik
Under the term Nikolausphysik became toward end that years in humoristisch satirischen circles as scientific work defined articles publishes, which would like to prove or disprove either the existence of Santa Claus. Representative of the "Nichtexistenztheory"appoint yourself thereby to a computer model from follows that Santa Claus with 1040km/s would have to move, in order to present within the Weihnachtsnacht all children of the world. After this rake however Santa Claus with one became of 20.6 million loads, which no us well-known would survive. From this calculation therefore the representatives of the "Nichtexistenztheorie" conclude that there cannot be Santa Claus.
Chocolate Santa Claus
Particularly at the Nikolaustag as also to 24.12. are the chocolate Santa Claus much like.
Around 1820 the first Nikolausfiguren in the representation, manufactured from solid chocolate, developed as a bishop with Mitra and staff. About 20 years later were manufactured it for the first time in the today used form than hollow bodies. The representation changed with the arising of the Santa Claus figure quite fast to the form prevailing today.
To the production liquid chocolate between two forms is brought and turned these in the so-called centrifugal casting procedure until the chocolate distributed itself evenly and cooled off. Over 9000 tons of chocolate in Germany to approximately 100 million the chocolate Santa Claus are converted annually. Thus chocolate Santa Claus is to chocolates because of second place behind thatosterhasen, to the 56% are allotted to chocolate hollow body production. (numbers from the year 2002).
See also
Web on the left of
- Community for the rescue of Santa Claus
- Germany office of Santa Claus
- St. Nikolaus in the course of the centuries
- Homepage of Santa Claus of
- Text of The Night before Christmas with short discussion of the author question
- Background article in THE TIME
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