Barefoot

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Barfüßele in Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1892)

Barfüßele is a story by Berthold Auerbach , which first appeared in 1856 and belongs to the genre of village history . (In some separate editions of the 20th century this village story was also called a novel .) The Barfüßele is one of the 27 Black Forest village stories by Berthold Auerbach.

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Amrei , the daughter of a timber farmer and a day laborer, lost her parents as a small child. She grows up separately from her brother with a foster mother, works as a goose-shepherd and as a maid and is known throughout the village as a barefooted girl . The focus is on Amreis' inner development to a self-confident and independent personality. The story is convincing through the realistic depiction of the rural living conditions, which, however, appears softened by the happy ending, the marriage of the heroine with a farmer's son.

effect

Barfüßele quickly became an international success and was translated into almost all European languages, sometimes several times: English (1857, 1860, 1890), Dutch (1858), Danish (1861), Italian (1872), French (1875, 1910), Finnish ( 1876), Swedish (1879, 1910, 1922), Norwegian (1888, 1909), Russian (1900, 1912).

An adaptation for the theater as "Rural character picture in 5 elevators" by Moritz Reichenbach can be proven as early as 1857. Ferdinand Freiligrath was inspired to write a poem of the same name by reading the story in 1870. The opera Barefoot by Richard Heuberger (Libretto Victor Léon ) premiered in Dresden 1905th A silent film was made in 1924 under the direction of Heinrich Lisson with Maria Zelenka as Barfüßele .

Expenses (selection)

  • Barefoot . Stuttgart u. Augsburg: Cotta 1856.
  • Barefoot . With 75 illustrations by Benjamin Vautier in Düsseldorf. Stuttgart: Cotta 1870. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Berthold Auerbach's Writings , Volume 14: Black Forest Village Stories, Part Six . Stuttgart, Cotta successor 1895 ff.
  • Berthold Auerbach's works . In selection ed. u. with entrance vers. by Anton Bettelheim. Leipzig: Hesse & Becker. Black Forest village stories . Vol. 7, Barfüßele (1913)
  • Barefoot. A Black Forest village story . Introduced and ed. by Eugen Wolbe, Leipzig: Reclam 1912

literature

  • Jürgen Hein: Barefoot . In: Novels and Tales of Bourgeois Realism. New interpretations. Edited by Horst Denkler . Stuttgart: Reclam 1980.
  • Albrecht Regenbogen (Ed.): Barfüßele on his way into the world - Berthold Auerbach's most successful village history turns 150. Documentation. Culture and Museum Association Horb a. N. e. V. 2006

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