Everything for the gallery

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Gabriele Wohmann (1992)

Everything for the gallery is a short story by Gabriele Wohmann from 1965, which appeared in 1970 in the Sunday short story collection of the Kreisands in the hermit press .

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The first-person narrator is as good as engaged to the almost 40-year-old gallery owner Leonhard - known as Leo. Usually, after a short time, Leo runs away from the new hired employee because he is underpaid. When Leo is once again without an employee, the first-person narrator wants to change that with a joke. She brings the gallery owner together with her 32-year-old cousin and best friend, the bundle of nerves Helene, who is willing to marry. The cousin is looking for a new job. Helena works in the gallery, does not know anything about the almost engagement and is "loved" by Leo - according to the narrator's fun plan - and of course, like every other employee, exploited.

Helene is enthusiastic about Leo as a lover. That will be too much for the first-person narrator - she is Leo's bride after all - after all. She pours pure wine for Helene. Nothing there. Helene loves Leo. The first-person narrator has the solution: "... kill yourself ..."

No sooner said than done. Helene survived the suicide attempt. The convalescent is married to Leo. The first-person narrator makes a good face for a bad game.

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First edition

  • Everything for the gallery in Gabriele Wohmann: Sunday at the Kreisands. Narratives . Eremitenpresse, Stierstadt and Düsseldorf 1970 (still contains: battles. November fits. The simple life. Flamenco. Why then? Distraction )

Used edition

  • Everything for the gallery . P. 97–112 in Gabriele Wohmann: Everything for the gallery. Stories. With a comment by Günther Cwojdrak . 163 pages. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1972, without ISBN (still contains: An Occasion. The piano lesson. The sisters. Visiting. Drinking is the most wonderful thing . Always think about this afternoon. Albert's program. Inaugural speech. Hamsters, hamsters! Greed . Statutory . Distraction . Sunday at the Kreisands. When the wolf goes. November fits. The Bütows )

Secondary literature

  • Günter Häntzschel, Jürgen Michael Benz, Rüdiger Bolz, Dagmar Ulbricht: Gabriele Wohmann . (= Author's books. Volume 30). Verlag CH Beck, Verlag edition text + kritik, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-406-08691-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magirius, p. 1 and Häntzschel, p. 156, entry 8