Adam the dirndl

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Rosegger in 1893

Adam das Dirndl is a short story by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger , which was published in 1893 in the 18th year, issues 1 to 3, of the Graz Heimgarten .

content

When the narrator steps into the high rock table in the high mountains of Wilder Starr , it already says “Asylum for World Refugees” - a fairly comfortable mountain hotel for city dwellers who are neither sick nor healthy, just nervous . Usually the patient in question returns to his city cured after about six weeks of treatment. A doctor is not required for this. The high mountain climate and the hotel owner Fräulein Adam Maria Leuthold take care of the healing. The story of the 45-year-old is quickly told. Maria's mother Martha, wife of the Bavarian forester Leuthold, gave birth to her only child when she was 40 years old and died afterwards. The forester had absolutely wanted a regular owner. At the baptism, the pastor had accepted the double first name Adam Maria for the newborn girl. As a 10-year-old, the schoolgirl appeared as a housewife in the forester's house in the valley of the three Achen (the Ach - Bergbach). When Maria was eighteen, the two Hamburg students Moriz Bagemann and Erhard Veldeke came by. Maria and Moriz fell in love. The forester gave his blessing at the engagement party. Moriz only had to get his father's permission for the intended marital union. Moriz did not return to the Valley of the Three Aches. In response to Maria's letter request, Erhard wrote that his friend Moriz was an employee of the German Consulate in Rio de Janeiro.

The narrator now makes that leap forward in time indicated above over about twenty-five years. With the support of her caretaker Scholastl, Miss Maria successfully manages her hotel on the Wilder Starr . Scholastl calls his resolute boss only Adam das Dirndl . When asked why, he replies that a dirndl is a single woman. To his chagrin, the advertising Scholastl receives a basket from his dirndl.

The son of Baron Moriz Bagemann from Berlin stays incognito in the hotel as M. Berghaus. Studiosus prepares for his doctorate at Munich University in a quiet little room. When Berghaus climbed the Hochspitze solo while snapping fresh air, he fell and broke his left thigh. The dirndl and the scholastl - two experienced climbers - find the victim in a crevice. The dirndl - which doesn't know who she is looking at - takes care of the convalescent around the clock. Finally the student reveals the cards. His father, the baron, is a civil servant in the Berlin Reich Chancellery . The mother, an American, lives in England.

When the baron quit his job in Berlin for reasons of age, he went to the Hohe Starr forever and asked for the hand of his childhood sweetheart. Even the nobleman gets a basket. After the son has established himself in the civil service, he no longer travels to the Alps. The Dirndl, together with the Scholastl and the Baron, spend their twilight years together on the Hochalm.

expenditure

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam the dirndel. A short story by PK Rosegger , Heimgarten , Volume 18, October to December 1893, pp. 1–18, 81–97 and 166–181