From the life book of the little schoolmaster Michel Haas

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From the life book of the little schoolmaster Michel Haas is a novella by Wilhelm Raabe , which was written in the summer of 1859 and appeared in Westermann's monthly notebooks in 1860 . In 1862 the text was in the “Tangled Life” collection at Carl Flemming's in Glogau . Raabe experienced reprints in 1896, 1901 and 1905.

The tutor Michel Haas talks about his eventful life, in which he has nowhere to gain a foothold.

content

The first-person narrator Michel Haas is an old man. Both the dear parents and the siblings - with the exception of one missing brother - died.

Michel was born on June 6, 1697 as the 13th child in Wetterburg in the Brandenburg county of Waldeck . In 1702 the family moves to Rhoden . As a 14-year-old, the boy first attended school in Lippstadt an der Lippe and then the high school in Detmold . Rector Hilger places Michel on a noble estate in Herberhausen as a private tutor for two children. When Michel fell in love with one of the grown-up daughters of the house, there was an argument with the tyrannical landlord. The teacher has to go. On the new mediation of his rector, Michel finds a place at the bakery Knöbge in Lemgo . The teacher flees from the daughter of the house. This is the mother of an eight year old illegitimate child. Michel now sings at the turn of the year with distinguished people for money and food. In Hündersen he then teaches the three sons of an office supervisor , but goes his way when Anna Maria, the eldest daughter of the house, disdains him.

After a long illness, Michel is looked after by his parents at home, then works as a teacher at Gut Sülbeck and teaches the sons of the Lutheran Herr von Bock in Hildesheim near Gronau . The mad goat, “a nonsensical person”, who treats his wife badly, lets his teacher “beastly”. Michel lived with wife von Bock on another estate belonging to his master for twelve years and became the court administrator of Count von Waldeck . After two and a half years of service, he went to his married sister with many children in Mengeringhausen . When Michel spent his money there, he taught two junkers and three young ladies on a noble estate on Solling . Then Michel is with Dr. Jaster works as a teacher in Lauenstein , becomes the administrator of a nobleman in Eichsfeld and comes to Oerlinghausen via a teaching position in Paderbornschen . There he is seized by his old illness, the "cruel melancholy ". He forgets that when one of his old classmates from Detmold leads him to a farm in Stapelage , where he has married. There I meet again with Anna Maria from Hündersen. The landlady and Anna Maria argue. Michel notices that his classmate wants to get rid of one of his two house dragons and takes flight from his former treasure. It goes to Lieutenant Schmidt on an estate in the Senne . When Michel had had enough of the wilderness, he went back among people - became a teacher in Markoldendorf , Eschershausen and finally found shelter with the smelter Schottelius at Gut Esbeck near Freden an der Leine .

Quote

"You don't get smart until you get old."

interpretation

The narrated events are not invented. Even if the schoolmaster Michel Haas portrays his adventures as the sins of his own youth, Raabe's criticism of society is unmistakable: the mostly aristocratic bosses make use of the tutor's services and then hunt him to the devil at the first opportunity.

expenditure

First edition

  • Tangled life. Novellas and sketches by Wilhelm Raabe. 263 pages. Carl Flemming, Glogau 1862 (The old university. The Junker von Denow. From the book of life of the schoolmaster Michel Haas. Who can turn it around? A secret )

Used edition

literature

  • Fritz Meyen : Wilhelm Raabe. Bibliography. 438 pages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1973 (2nd edition). Supplementary volume 1, ISBN 3-525-20144-3 in Karl Hoppe (Ed.): Wilhelm Raabe. Complete Works. Braunschweig edition . 24 vols.
  • Cecilia von Studnitz : Wilhelm Raabe. Writer. A biography. 346 pages. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-0778-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ von Studnitz, p. 309, entry 12
  2. ↑ Hoppe and Rohse in the edition used, p. 602 bottom center and p. 614 and 617
  3. ↑ Edition used, p. 462, 12. Zvo
  4. ↑ Hoppe and Rohse in the edition used, p. 616, 2. Zvo
  5. ↑ Meyen, p. 19