Anna (Friedrich Hebbel)
Anna is a short story by Friedrich Hebbel . It was created in 1836 and published in 1847 in the magazine Der Salon in Wien.
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The young maid Anna serves the Baron von Eichenthal. He, disturbed by her happy singing, angrily rules at her, whereupon she angrily smashes a soup tureen. The baron gives her a few slaps in the face and also punishes her with the fact that she is not allowed to go to the fair in the evening with the other domestic workers , but has to pant flax at home until late at night . The other maids and servants make fun of them at lunch.
In the evening, sitting in the small flax room and working diligently by candlelight, she receives a visit from her admirer Friedrich. He would like to persuade her to come to the fair against the instructions of the baron and dance with him. She refuses, Friedrich goes and does not want to see her again. She runs after him, brushing the candle with her skirt, which falls over and sets the flax on fire.
Anna runs away and collapses in a meadow. When she hears that not only the baronial castle is on fire, but that the fire is also spreading to the village, she runs into the village and bravely helps with the rescue and extinguishing work. However, she has to realize that the village is exposed to the flames. She begins to pray in a burning house. Friedrich sees her and wants to save her, but she wants to atone for her guilt and climbs into the attic, where she is killed by the falling thatched roof. When the baron found out about the incidents the next day, he gave the order "to get their bones out of the rubble and bury them on the Schindanger".
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- Friedrich Hebbel: Anna . In: Hebbel. A reader for our time. Ed. V. Kunibert Arndt, Paula Goldschmidt and Gerhard Steiner. Volksverlag Weimar 1961, pp. 118–124.
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- ↑ According to a diary entry, Hebbel ended the story on June 9, 1836, see the life chronicle on the Hebbel Society website