"Mummenschanz" meaning in German

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          "text": "Absurd ist's hier, absurd im Norden, / Gespenster hier wie dort vertrackt, / Volk und Poeten abgeschmackt. / Ist eben hier eine Mummenschanz / Wie überall, ein Sinnentanz.",
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          "ref": "1930, Hermann Hesse, chapter 16, in Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund], Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, page 332; republished as Ursule Molinaro, transl., Narcissus and Goldmund, 1968:",
          "text": "[…]es begnete ihm ein kleiner Zug von singenden Knaben, die trugen auf Stäben ausgehöhlte Rüben mit sich, in welche Gesichter geschnitzt und brennende Kerzen gesteckt waren. Der kleine Mummenschanz brachte einen Duft von Winter mit sich, lächelnd sah Goldmund ihm nach.",
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