Arne's estate
Arne's estate is a novel by Siegfried Lenz . The book was published in 1999 by Hoffmann-und-Campe-Verlag , Hamburg.
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At the age of twelve, Arne Hellmer was taken in as a foster child in Hamburg by the family of a friend of his father's, after he was the only one to survive his father's extended suicide .
Arne turns out to be a shy, withdrawn boy who hardly shows the usual interests of his age, but has an astonishing intelligence , linguistic giftedness (Arne learns Finnish autodidactically ) and a photographic memory . However, he is hardly psychologically resilient and is prone to hallucinations .
Hans, who is five years his senior, shares his room with Arne for two years, whom he has loved from the start. A friendship grows between these two boys, but Hans' younger siblings Lars and Wiebke as well as their friends meet the alien Arne from the beginning with rejection and sometimes even harass him openly, which is all the more painful for Arne when he turns to Wiebke feels strongly attracted.
Although Arne has good plans for his life, Wiebke's rejection in particular hits him so badly that his progress suffers. His initially excellent academic performance falls below the average. Again and again he tries to gain acceptance from the group around Wiebke and Lars, but constantly fails because of his social naivety and vulnerability.
When this group surprisingly takes him one day, Arne realizes too late that he is only being used for a planned theft in his foster father's company. On the day after the crime, he met contrite Arne, who confessed everything, benevolently, but immediately afterwards Arne had to find out that the longed-for friends had turned their backs on him completely. Suddenly resolved, he got into a boat and rowed out onto the Elbe. Hans, who follows him a little later, suspecting evil, only finds the empty boat. Arne has disappeared without a trace, his fate is not clarified in the novel.
In the framework story, Hans, the first-person narrator of the novel, packs up Arne's belongings a month after Arne's disappearance. Each piece awakens in him a new memory of Arne's multi-layered, enigmatic personality and of what we shared together. These memories, each discussed in an imaginary dialogue with Arne, form both Hans' grief work and the actual novel plot.
At the end of the book, a late regret finally breaks through in Lars: He unpacks Arne's estate, which Hans has just finished tidying up, and puts things back in their place when he realizes how much he misses Arne. The pain of the empty room finally connects the two brothers.
filming
The novel was 2012 by Thorsten Schmidt for ARD filmed , with Jan Fedder as Harald and Max Hegewald in the role of Arne Hellmer.
literature
- Siegfried Lenz: Arne's estate . dtv , Munich 2001, ISBN 3423129158 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: "Arnes Nachlass": Harry Potter from the Port of Hamburg. In: The world. November 13, 2013, accessed November 13, 2013 .