Büttenrede

Büttenreden are often rhymed and are performed from a special lectern called a bütt (rhenish franconian/moselle franconian/colognian/rhinelandic for barrel, vessel) in a local German dialect.

The content of the speeches has also gradually shifted from an expository, ironic mirroring of society to merely performing a collection of jokes.

[3] The Büttenrede can be traced back to the medieval practice of Rügerecht, through which peasants were allowed to freely criticize their rulers during carnival without fear of retribution.

[5] The use of racist and misogynistic language has a well-documented history in this tradition, and, in more recent times, has sparked discussions around bigotry in the carnival scene as a whole.

[6][7] In 2020, an orator in the village of Süplingen in Saxony-Anhalt held a Büttenrede in which he used derogatory language towards asylum seekers and Black people.