Advent (Loriot)

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Advent is a poem by the German humorist Loriot . Embedded in an Advent environment, it describes the murder of a forester by his wife as well as his subsequent cutting up for later consumption . The poem was first published in a cartoon drawn and dubbed by Loriot, which appearedfor the first time on German television in the eleventh episode of the Cartoon serieson December 7, 1969. The animation was later known Sketch representatives visit einmontiert, the consecutive VI of the series in 1978 Loriot was shown, but is known primarily from the 14th following the cut version of the series in 1997, under the title Christmas at Hoppenstedts to Standard program of the ARD on the Christmas days. In addition to these television publications, the poem appeared for the first time in 1971 in Loriot's Kleine Prosa also as a printed text and is part of several other publications by Loriot.

content

The poem tells how a forester's wife shoots her husband in the forester's house on St. She had come up with the plan because it interfered with cleaning the house. After the killing , she breaks the man up “according to the hunter's custom”. She keeps one piece of fillet for herself as a holiday roast, divides the rest into six packages and wraps them in wrapping paper. She passes the gifts on to Knecht Ruprecht , who comes ridden on a stag and asks for gifts for those in need.

publication

The poem was first published in the eleventh episode of the television series Cartoon produced by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk , which was first shown on German television on December 7, 1969. In an animation drawn by Loriot, it is read from a book by an older man sitting in a chair. The man, who, like almost all characters in Loriot's cartoons, is dubbed by Loriot himself, speaks in a purring voice. In the background there is an Advent wreath with two candles burning. In the 21st and final episode of the broadcast on December 25, 1972, which largely consisted of repetitions of contributions from the previous episodes, the cartoon was shown again.

Nine years later, Loriot used the cartoon again in the Sketch Representative Visit , which was shown for the first time on December 7, 1978 in the sixth and final episode of the Loriot series produced by Radio Bremen . Ms. Hoppenstedt receives a visit from a wine, a vacuum cleaner and an insurance agent, with whom she celebrates a kind of party after consuming several bottles of wine. After a while, Dickie, the Hoppenstedts child, switched on the television on which the cartoon was shown at the request of the mother. The Sketch representative's visit was also shown in 1993 in the eighth and final episode of the series Reunion with Loriot , which consisted of cuts from old cartoons and Loriot's sketches. In 1997, 14 re-edited episodes of the Loriot series were produced, in which, in addition to the skits from the older versions, skits from the shows Cartoon , Loriot's Telecabinet and Report Baden-Baden as well as a few other television appearances were incorporated. Representative visit appeared together with the Advent film in the 14th episode entitled Christmas at Hoppenstedts , which was shown for the first time on July 22, 1997. Similar to Dinner for One, this episode has now developed into a classic on German television and is shown every Christmas on various ARD channels.

Advent appeared in print for the first time in 1973 in Loriot's Kleine Prosa and has since been published in various other anthologies and exhibition catalogs.

analysis

The poem has no stanzas and, according to the Germanist Stefan Neumann, resembles child-friendly Christmas poems such as the poem Knecht Ruprecht by Theodor Storm with its paired rhymes and the iambic four- foot meter . In addition, it is stylistically reminiscent of ballads and bench songs and can therefore be understood as a simultaneous parody of folk festival poems and shower ballads. The comedy of the poem arises mainly from the contrast between the murder and the cannibalism of the forester on the one hand and the Christmas mood and the upscale, solemn language on the other. Thus was Loriot with Advent so close to the black British humor than in any of his previous works.

In terms of content, the poem with a conflict in marriage takes up a topic that plays a very important role in Loriot's oeuvre. Already in his early drawings he addressed married life, for example in the series Liebsam Family , which appeared in Weltbild in 1954 , and the Quick series Adam and Evchen from 1956. With the real film sketch Herrenmoden , which was released in 1976, seven years later Advent , which was shown in the second episode of the Loriot series , the topic of conflicts between men and women replaced the television parody as the most important basic motif in Loriot's television work and is also the motif of Loriot's two feature films Ödipussi and Pappa ante portas . According to Neumann, the forester's murder motif in Advent reveals typical elements of Loriot's marriage depictions. The married couple's habits, in the case of the forester, cleaning the house, have become the sole purpose of life, the partner is only perceived as a disturbance and threat to this life. The spouses' affection for one another has given way to mutual enmity. The lack of physical love is also indicated by the two verses “She carefully puts limb on limb / (what the husband has hitherto avoided)”, which can be understood as a sexual allusion typical for Loriot. With the murder of his spouse in Advent, Loriot consistently draws the developments in marriage shown in various other of his works, such as the cartoon sketches The Breakfast Egg and End of Work , to an end.

It is also typical for Loriot that the violence emanates from the woman. According to Neumann in Loriot's sketches, women are often the aggressors who are rhetorically and intellectually superior to men and who can therefore act more brutally. Loriot expressed his skepticism towards the meekness of women, among other things, in an interview with André Müller in 1992 at a time when he was certain that women, after overcoming their disadvantage, will develop the same bad qualities that have only been seen so far Ascribe to men.

reception

After its first publication in the television series Cartoon , the poem is said to have caused a stir in the Broadcasting Council and a request in the Bundestag .

In 1973 the writer Wolfgang Hildesheimer published a criticism of the book Loriot's heile Welt in Spiegel , which Stefan Neumann describes as Verriss . However , Hildesheimer finds words of praise for Advent and is of the opinion that the poem should " belong in the ballad treasure of every German household as an example of succinct demythologization ". In 1985 Hildesheimer ensured a further appreciation of the poem by relating it to, among others, Goethe , Schiller and Matthias Claudius in an interpretative parody published in the magazine Der Rabe and thus embedding it in the history of literature.

In his lecture Satire on TV , which Loriot gave in July 1979 at the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing , he referred to an article in the right-wing extremist German weekly newspaper , which appeared after Loriot's last broadcast and which had accused him of causing emotional disintegration with Advent .

Advent was also used on television apart from Loriot . Parts of the poem were recited in 2004 in episode 994 of Lindenstrasse as part of a living Advent calendar. The poem was also taken up in the theater. Ulrich G. Engelmann wrote a crime comedy based on Advent , the title In this wonderful night ... uses the beginning of a verse of the poem. In the play, a woman named Förster is suspected of having murdered and cut up her husband.

Expenses (selection)

literature

  • Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the comedy. Life, work and work of Vicco von Bülow . Scientific publishing house Trier, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-86821-298-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 230.
  2. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 246, 406.
  3. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 290, 294.
  4. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 414.
  5. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 418.
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Kaes : Memories of Loriot: There used to be more tinsel. In: General-Anzeiger . December 24, 2015, accessed March 26, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b c Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 233.
  8. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 230-231.
  9. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 231-232.
  10. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 116-122.
  11. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, pp. 156-163.
  12. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 264.
  13. ^ Felix Christian Reuter: Chaos, comedy, cooperation. Loriot's television sketches (=  Oliver Jahraus , Stefan Neuhaus [Hrsg.]: FILM - MEDIA - DISCOURSE . Volume 70 ). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5898-1 , p. 290 .
  14. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 277.
  15. ↑ André Müller: The human being is going under now. André Müller speaks to Loriot . In: The time . No. 7 , February 7, 1992, pp. 61-62 ( zeit.de ).
  16. ↑ Patrick Süskind : The production of comedy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1993, p. 176–179, here: 178 ( spiegel.de ).
  17. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 234.
  18. ↑ Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Naked woman on roast plate . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1973, p. 169 ( spiegel.de ).
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Hildesheimer: Thoughts on a poem by Loriot . In: The raven . No. 9 , 1985, pp. 150-154 . Quoted in: Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy . 2011, p. 234.
  20. ↑ Loriot: Satire on TV . In: Collected prose . Diogenes, 2006, ISBN 978-3-257-06481-0 , pp. 401–408 , here: 408 .
  21. ↑ Episode 994: Alone Against All. In: wdr.de . Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
  22. ↑ On this wonderful night ... In: Plausus Theaterverlag website. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .