The winning ticket

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The prize ticket ( Russian Выигрышный билет , Wyigryschny bilet ) is a short story by the Russian writer Anton Chekhov , which appeared on March 9, 1887 in the Peterburgskaja Gazeta . During the author's lifetime the text was translated into Bulgarian, German, Serbo-Croatian and Czech.

Anton Chekhov

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Ivan Dmitritsch's wife Masha bought a lottery ticket . Ivan doesn't believe in luck in the game. Nevertheless, he looks through the list of winners in the daily newspaper. Lo and behold, he can hardly believe his eyes, the serial number matches! A smile spreads over the faces of the long-term married couple. Ivan is delighted when the ticket number within the series still matches, which is 75,000. What he's going to do with it! Buy a country estate, a trip to Italy and and ... But wait a minute. The lot belongs to Masha. Ivan's joy evaporates. Mascha will pay him pocket money if he wins and put the rest on the high edge. Ivan imagines a trip to Italy with stingy Mascha to be extremely exhausting. The broad smile on Ivan's face has given way to a hateful sidelong glance at his long-faded marriage sponsorship. Mascha, who knows her Ivan very well, replies with an angry look, who says: "It's easy to dream at someone else's expense ... get that out of your mind!" Ivan, who gave Masha's ostentatious answer even without an added word understands, has found the number of the winning ticket in the newspaper and scornfully trumpets the truth in the face of the ticket owner. Mascha and he too lost again. Ivan can't stand it any longer at home amid the crumbs and trash. He wants to go away; would like to hang on the next aspen .

filming

  • 1956, Soviet Union : The winning ticket short film (13 min, Russian) by Era Saweljewa with Viktor Chochryakov as Ivan Dmitritsch and Varvara Obuchowa as his wife Mascha.

German-language editions

  • The winning ticket. German by Hermann Röhl . P. 38–44 in Marga Erb (Ed.): Anton P. Chekhov: From the notes of an irate man. Stories. 412 pages. Reclam, Leipzig 1972, without ISBN

Used edition

  • The winning ticket. P. 396-401 in Gerhard Dick (ed.) And Wolf Düwel (ed.): Anton Chekhov: Das Schwedische Zündholz. Short stories and early narratives. German by Georg Schwarz. 668 pages. Rütten & Loening, Berlin 1965 (1st edition)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notes on pp. 644–645 in FEB under The Prize Ticket (Russian)
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 401, 19. Zvo
  3. ↑ Russian. The short film on YouTube
  4. ↑ Russian Савельева, Эра Михайловна
  5. ↑ Russian Хохряков, Виктор Иванович
  6. ↑ Russian Обухова, Варвара Александровна
  7. ^ Hermann Röhl (1851–1923) in the Kalliope group