European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse                              I if you re Muling this with a Bud taste in your Mout h because  switched the Salt with the sugar it breakfast you May not have much sym Nulty for till Kulen i Piekul. Till was n funny looking Little Guy with Long Hilr and Noso. Or was n homeless wanderer in 14th Century Germany who As often is not was run out of any town he happened to Slop in. Not int you Rould in tit by by not the town till Eulen Plegel was perhaps the greatest  in history. Some of the things he did might not seem so Hll Arlous today and victims of hit pranks Seldom laughed but Many Fomb antics were rent classics. There was the any when till had the whole population of Magdeburg now in East a cranny turned out to see him Fly from the roof of City Hall. Till had posted notice of his scheduled flight on the town bulletin Board. The townsfolk flocked tothe City by Junec to watch till either per form a Miracle or break Hli fool neck. They gaped As the nimble no lilt pc filed the Hill Tower gulped As he append hit i Kenny arms and crouched for the Takeoff and glowered red need with embarrassment when till lowered his Arm laughed Down it them and Bald that any. One who thought he could Fly or expected him to jump off n High building was a bigger fool than till. He left Magdeburg As he did Many another City hastily. Still. It was Only the people he lured into i howling their own fool sements who did t like till. The rest of the folks howled at hit exploits by Long As they weren t involved themselves. Till Efti medieval germany1 counter part of bugs Bunny with a la lilo Mark Twain Typ satire thrown in. To this any his part of German tradition literature Art and even music. Richard Strauss named it who Milchl tone poem after till in 1894. There u even a museum in Schoeppey it tit Between Brunswick and Helmstedt by Bill Collins staff writer  entirely  latin  u i minus of till in his exploits. Liere in i those win Sny till in i i lived but Ijiro evidence is /iy/iin-,1  a in ii knives time Bull into n Huith Wall it Moellen Enst of Hamburg where it is believed till died of the plym it i dated j350 and says this Stone shall nut be lifted by anybody. Here Tiu a. Mph Gei stands  till reportedly islands burled Henuse one of he rapes broke is his coffin was being lowered and the coffin fell Bendwise Inlo the grave. The burial parly left it that Way and because the warning of thegravestone.1 Lifis new been gnat erf. It is nut known i a. This any whether till reposes on his feet or his head he was born in 1300. The archives any to a poor farming couple in he Village of knot til Ngun not far from Schoppen Sli it. His parents had Hopes for him a hard work inn Hiim Lynnwin hut hard work and till weren t compatible. He started on his funnyman career almost us soon As he could walk. Neighbors started complaining hat Little till marked manners. Confronted by if a her the tyke denied the charges andean id the neighbors were grouches who Romp Alicd of his Mere presence. To prove his Point he mounted a horse with his father and Rode through the Village streets. They had t gone 100 Yards when bystanders started hurling insults. Dad shrug Ted and admitted has son must in pc been right not knowing the insults were called out because the and had been Sniddy Mak ing faces at the townspeople a they Rode along. Till and his parents moved possibly under duress1, a few years later. Till was school tide hut not school minded. It Wasa rare any when he could a Corral cd in a classroom and even then he usually broke up he class with his clowning. Ii. Uns  it i. It Iti Mil to  a Tniliim-i"1 to  in vim muh k Tol it to Lumini Iokim us his i,.1 1.-i he died Anil has in Atli i. -1\ Gnu line to tank ends meet Hud Mure Hun she Rould hum tie in till. She found him walk any a rope stretched mum in for Riverside House across in Wynier in a tree Slu inure la rut the rope Dun pint her Hoy Inlo the liver. Soaked and Lauti hed at till got revenge a linking the townsfolk into giving Pihir left shoes which lie Snail he wanted in use in a during act. When he had Namh footwear he walked Mother rope Over a downtown Street. Witik King the shoes. When the crowd was directly Helow him he lumped the shoes in a pile. The towns Folk scrambled to recover their shoes. The result was a first Das riot. Till wits on his Way. Whether by Bis own intent or not owl Mirror that s what Kulens Cuel Means in German and his pranks been me More than Ramie to europeans. He Bei me a sort of Champion of the stupid peasants in clashes with the snobbish City set. Eve with the primitive communications of his time he Wiik known Over most of Europe. Ills main gambit was a Talent for making people believe him or falling that to make them 10 curious that he Ould git the me result a Gullible crowd. In his travels he talked various cities into letting him undertake touch civic projects As planting pebbled in the town Square to grow a new City Hall a seminar for University professors which he con ducted in the manner of a Groucho Marx quiz show a portrait of the ruling Noble Man which he did t paint and explain Edas visible Only to legitimate  he also tried his hand at Nhsn pro duct i on Medicine. In Nurenburg he announced himself As a famous doctor an offered to cure a Hospital full of put Lent Nir a Sll Vrr coins lie not the Job Nej t let ins fee in Short  i Lounck he told i we patient Mofidi Trilly. Ltd i nil he ii Edei to cure a  in Hie  a i Lien in a of n for vol Huned Lirida the Only toil Halo  thin tin tidy Ink to lie Liti Rcd Hillve.  thai he was he explained in was Komi a to use the Sirte to patient in the place As h Hillh fuel for the others. To added that in would find out who was sickest by rail line in  All those who were Well would he Able to scramble into the so rfcs. He who could t make it was obviously the person to sacrifice to Medl i ice. Twenty seconds after the Alert was sounded the Hospital was empty. Till picked up his Money and made track while he Rould. He did t go Back to a Ornburg. When he was desperate he would take in honest Job but Only then. The  lusted just Long enough to get him n meal and ended with n joke on the hapless employer. He often had to leave under cover of darkness to avoid out ruffed victims leaving Only his Trade make a drawing of an owl with a lookingglass with the inscription Euton Plegel was  As his Fame spread this came to be regard us rather like the Mark of Zany Zorro. In the centuries after he death he be came even More famous. His spirit of  fault finding with the human race was accepted All Over Europe. The French word esp Legle is based on his name and Means  scandinavian peasant h in the Middle Ages adopted ule pc get As an inspiration in their  feudalism. He was a kind of court Jester to the world. Till 1 it Lull Well remembered in Germany. Towns that once sent him packing now hold periodic Eulen Plegel festivals. A Book of his adventure first printed in 3515, in still in demand and Eulen Spisic a in Jester s toss abound at German celebrations. A Moellen i off col Eulen Plegel pot i in costume next to Tim Ila tue papier mache Model of the famous prankster is also in Schoepp Enstedt museum is laughed of till so he taxed through legs i of their table which collapsed whence Lei Swine run through door. The stars and stripes Page 13