On the old part

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On the old part is a novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in November 1878 and published on December 30, 1878 in the “Deutsches Monday Gazette” by Rudolf Mosse in Berlin. The editor Oskar Blumenthal had accepted the little sketch.


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The elderly couple's dear children and grandchildren have gradually taken possession of three quarters of the house. On New Year's Eve, the two old people escape the hustle and bustle. They don't want to wait for the New Year, but rather relax on their old part in the armchairs next to the stove before going to bed from shaking hands, kissing and good New Year's wishes.

In the last few minutes of the old year, the couple sees their Ännchen in the dawning. This is the oldest daughter who died at the age of twelve. Ännchen said to the parents: "Who can take my place in your soul, who in the house that you built and where you once called me your happiness ?!" It was always there, the child continues and mentions his little coffin in which the parents had to put it. Yes, the dead woman comforted her, there was another Ännchen living in the house - one of the couple's grandchildren. The attempt to be young again on New Year's Eve with the living children was not entirely successful in the beginning, but in the end it was. Because now that the dead Annchen has sat down with them, that return has been successful.

The couple talk about the apparition. After the clock strikes twelve, both are silent.

reception

  • Hoppe points out a common feature of the story with “The Good Day” and “A Visit”: In all three texts the vision or the dream is a style element.
  • Fuld calls the sketch insignificant and sentimentally pleasing.

expenditure

Used edition

  • On the old part. A New Year's mood. Pp. 365-377. With an appendix, written by Karl Hoppe , pp. 471–473 in Hans Finck (arrangement), Karl Hoppe (arrangement): Wunnigel . German nobility . The good day . On the old part. A visit . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1977. Vol. 13 (2nd edition, obtained by Jörn Dräger), ISBN 3-525-20126-5 in Karl Hoppe (ed.), Jost Schillemeit (ed.), Hans Oppermann (ed. ), Kurt Schreinert (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 313, entry 50
  2. ↑ Hoppe in the edition used, p. 471 above, p. 472, entry Z
  3. ↑ Fuld, pp. 274-275
  4. ↑ Edition used, p. 373, 2nd Zvo
  5. ↑ Hoppe in the edition used, p. 472, 4. Zvo
  6. ↑ Fuld, p. 34, 12. Zvu
  7. ↑ Fuld, p. 275, 16. Zvo