SO OFFT ICH MEINE TOBACKS-PFEIFFE MIT GUTEM KNASTER ANGEFÜLLT ... INHALTLICHE UND MEDIALE ASPEKTE EINES FLUGBLATTLIEDES

This contribution analyses the quoted tobacco song with regard to its contents as well as to medial aspects. This 18th century song has to be contextualized within a specific discourse of religious and cultural history: It interprets the consumption of tobacco as a symbol of human transience. Communicated in manuscripts, treatises, and particularly in broadsheets, the song was mainly popularized during the early 19th century. Its lyrics strikingly bear a nexus in the form of a humorous raiment to a moral device employing a profane commodity (pipe) and a profane action (smoking) as a starting point. The song, thus, was intended to turn a leisurely pursuit into an honourable convention by assigning it a religiously existential meaning.