Hann and Gulpenheh
Hann and Gulpenheh or said too much is said nothing. An oriental story is a story by Christoph Martin Wieland . It first appeared in 1778 in the magazine der teutsche Merkur published by Wieland . Wieland then published them again in 1785 and 1791 in Wieland's exquisite poems and in 1796 in the final edition of his Complete Works . Wieland's literary source was a story from the Bibliotheque universelle des Romans from October 1777.
The text consists of 31 stanzas of various lengths with a total of 265 rhyming verses. There is no fixed meter or rhyme scheme.
content
In Samarkand the poor tailor Hann marries the very beautiful young woman Gulpenheh. He swears that if she dies, he will weep on her grave for nine days. She then swears to him that in the event of his death she would be buried alive with him. About a year later, Gulpenheh choked on a bone while eating. She is buried and Hann lies on her grave, wailing loudly. The prophet Aissa comes by and has the reason for Hann's grief reported. Through a spell he brings Gulpenheh back to life, who rises from the grave and falls around her husband's neck. Since she is half-naked - only covered by a thin corpse shirt - Hann goes back to town to fetch clothes and then bring his wife home.
Shortly afterwards, the sultan's son and his entourage passed the cemetery and discovered Gulpenheh. He would like to take it with him in his seraglio , if it is not yet taken. She denies her husband in prospect of a luxurious life in the palace and goes with the prince.
The desperate Hann searches everywhere for his wife and gets on the prince's trail. He begs him to see his wife because he believes she will accompany him back. However, she denies him again and claims that he was a robber who ambushed her shortly before meeting the prince. Hann is arrested and sentenced to death. Shortly before the execution, the prophet Aissa appears again and testifies for Hann. Since the wise prophet is believed, Hann is released. Gulpenheh collapses dead before the Prophet and is laid in her old grave. This time Hann does not mourn her.
interpretation
For Walter Hinderer , the "ambivalence of appearance and reality" lifts the story beyond its French model, as does Wieland's typical method of representation: "As in almost all of Wieland's verses, the structural layer in Hann and Gulpenheh consists in the one above the various standpoints, deceptions and processes floating and relational joke. And this in turn only exists by virtue of language. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Hinderer: Afterword. In: CM Wieland: Hann and Gulpenheh. Chess Lolo. Verse narratives. Ed. V. Walter Hinderer . Stuttgart: Reclam 1970, pp. 39–54, here p. 50.