From the Chronicka of a traveling schoolboy

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Illustration to the chronicle of the traveling pupil by Eduard von Steinle

From the chronicle of a traveling schoolboy is a story by Clemens Brentano , the late version of which was published in 1818 in the Maurer's bookstore in Berlin as part of the “Die Sängerfahrt” collection. The original version of the story, written between 1802 and 1806, was not published by Josef Lefftz until 1923 . After 1818, Brentano personally signed the very first manuscript with "Old first manuscript fragment from the Chronica of the traveling pupil". Information on the origin of the text and the dates of publication can be found in Volume 19 of the Frankfurt Brentano edition [FBA].

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Johannes, born on May 20, 1358 in Burg Eberach am Main, is a poor pupil. The vagante is lucky. On the wandering from Basel to Strasbourg he was employed in Eschau by the knight Veltlin von Türlingen as a clerk. Johannes tells the knight and his four daughters stories about "people praying, working and teaching". In particular, it spreads through the harmonia mundi . Of the four girls, only Otilia and Gundelindis are the knight's biological daughters. The charitable Valtellina welcomed the orphan Athala into his home. The crusader brought Pelagia with him from Jerusalem.

Johannes, who is always ready to tell stories, tells us, among other things: He is the illegitimate son of the knight Siegmund von Laurenburg. The mother - delicate and white, with long blond hair - used to visit the monastery together with little Johannes on a two-hour march through Franconia . There she offered the abbot the products of her homework for sale.

Three somewhat larger internal narratives are picked out of the framework outlined above . The last two can be seen as a legend .

The mother's story

Johannes' maternal grandfather, a hunter and trapper during his lifetime, has been buried in the churchyard next to the monastery for eight years. Asked by Johannes about her own father, the mother tells of her love for Ritter Siegmund. Grandfather used to give old Laurenburger, that is Siegmund's father, falcons. This is one of the reasons why the family was welcome at the castle. The mother learns to love Siegmund on the occasion. Her father, the hunter, points out that she was not born to be a noblewoman. When the mother was orphaned, she stayed close to Siegmund. The relationship is tolerated by Sigmund's mother. Old Laurenburger can't step in. He is on the move in armed forces. The mother is finally adopted as a child by old Kilian, a veteran, now a house keeper at the castle. Kilian had wooed Johannes' grandmother on his mother's side in vain when he was young.

Of the sad fall of temporal love

Three sisters want to find beautiful pearls on the seashore. Two dare to venture out into the open sea in a crumbling ship. The pearl spirit lures the careless into a whirlpool with sweet singing. The two sisters are dragged into it and perish in it. The sea returns the ship and washes it onto the beach. The surviving sister arrives on the island with an old skipper, the owner of the boat. The skipper lives on the island to warn of the seductive singing, if that is possible. The old man instructs the virgin to find the sisters. The drowned people could be found in the Bitter Well. The girl does indeed see the sisters. They cannot be helped because their hair grew into the rock. The mourning virgin weeps pearls.

Story of the beautiful beggar and his bride

The vortex mentioned above grabs and devours people who have forgotten the spirit above their bodies. The pearl spirit also pulls the strings in the story of the beautiful beggar. The latter, the son of a poor fisherman, gives away their few belongings to the astonished mourners after the death of his parents and continues to beg; but not with the recipients. The handsome young man is not working. He lives on a rock in the sea. On the island he erects an altar in a grotto and needs a chalice for it. When the beggar plays the strings, the pearl spirit emerges from the water in the form of a beautiful woman and outwits the beautiful musician. The youth, later still looking for the mug, finds a precious book of the pearl spirit in the Bitter Fountain instead. The beautiful beggar simply keeps the book but cannot read. So he swims from his rock over to the Castle of the Virgin. She teaches him to read, flares up in love for the handsome man, but does not dare to confess her violent inclination to him. Soon the virgin swam over to the youth and teaches him to write. Then the pearl spirit in the form of a siren makes fog over the sea. The swimming virgin cannot find the rock of the beloved and drowns. Before that, during her last visit to the rock, she had confessed her love to the beautiful beggar in writing - well hidden in the said book. The beautiful beggar asks the pearl spirit for the mug from Tule . A sip from it should bring the virgin back to life. The beautiful beggar finds and reads the virgin's confession of love, brings the pearl spirit's book and commits suicide. The old skipper, who helped the surviving daughter in the story Of the sad fall of temporal love , is the father of that unhappy virgin. When he returned from the Holy Land , he did not reveal himself, but instead spent the rest of his life on the rock.

Quote

  • "Love is blind, and where it ignites it cannot be extinguished."

Poetry

Illustration to the chronicle of the traveling pupil by Eduard von Steinle
  • The spinner song. Johannes wakes up at night. The mother sits by the lamp, spins and sings:
It sang long years ago
Probably the nightingale too
That was probably sweet sound
Since we were together ...
  • Pilgrims come down the Main in a boat. They have a green may on board and sing:
I want to rejoice in May
In this holy time ...
  • Mr. Veltlin's wife, whose maiden name was Agneß von Endingen , has long since passed away. The widower sings at evening time:
I greet you tender beautiful woman
And bid you kindly good night
Bite that the eternal day in the river
Awakens in front of your little room.
  • The beautiful beggar rushes to the Bitter Well with the Book of the Pearl Spirit and hears singing from the depths:
Hurry hurry to Tule
search the bottom of the sea
that cup of your Bule
Only drinks himself from it healthy.

Self-testimony

Brentano in a letter dated September 6, 1802 to Achim von Arnim : "I write ... without joy because I no longer have love."

reception

  • On September 8, 1804, Prof. Karl Philipp Kayser from Heidelberg wrote in his diary: "Brentano read from a novel he had started: Chronica of a traveling pupil, a part which we found very annoying."
  • The original version is not edifying like the late version, but can be taken as a poem of knowledge.

authenticity

allegory

  • Schulz wants to recognize the four elements in the four daughters of the knight Veltlin .
  • Kluge sees the story of the old fisherman on the rock inserted at the end of the text as an allegory of transience.

The mother's story

  • John's mother does not listen to the advice of the father and has an illegitimate child. She does not have to be reprimanded for it, nor is she punished.
  • Inlaid poems not only underline the melancholy, but also support the deeper search for meaning: the abandoned mother, singing to her child at the spinning wheel, comes to terms with her fate.

Story of the beautiful beggar and his bride

  • Warning: Sexual desire brings death. The victims sit down in the Bitter Well.

Research literature

  • Riley refers to further work: A. Walheim (1912), H. Cardauns (1916), V. Herzog (1965), E. Stopp (Berlin 1971), E. Zimmermann (1971), A. Kathan (1972) , M. Huber (1976) and N. Reindl (Innsbruck 1976).

expenditure

  • W. Kreiten (ed.): The chronicle of the traveling student. First described by the former master Clemens Brentano. Hutter, Munich 1888. 99 pages. 6 woodcuts by Eduard von Steinle . Linen. Front cover gilding
  • Clemens Brentano: The chronicle of the traveling student. Original version. 94 pages. Wolkenwanderer, Leipzig 1923. Frontispiece portrait and 12 illustrations, some in color, and three plates based on photographs. linen

literature

sorted by year of publication

  • Wolfgang Pfeiffer-Belli: Clemens Brentano. A romantic poet's life. 214 pages. Herder publishing house, Freiburg im Breisgau 1947. Direction de l'Education Publique GMZFO
  • Werner Vordtriede (ed.): Clemens Brentano. The poet about his work. 324 pages. dtv Munich 1978 (© 1970 Heimeran Verlag Munich), ISBN 3-423-06089-1
  • Konrad Feilchenfeldt : Brentano Chronicle. Data on life and work. With illustrations. 207 pages. Carl Hanser, Munich 1978. Series Hanser Chroniken, ISBN 3-446-12637-6
  • Gerhard Schulz: The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 1. The Age of the French Revolution: 1789–1806. 763 pages. Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-00727-9
  • Helene M. Kastinger Riley : Clemens Brentano. Metzler Collection, Vol. 213. Stuttgart 1985. 166 pages, ISBN 3-476-10213-0
  • Gerhard Schulz : The German literature between the French Revolution and the restoration. Part 2. The Age of the Napoleonic Wars and the Restoration: 1806–1830. 912 pages. Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-09399-X
  • Gerhard Kluge: Clemens Brentano's early stories . P. 31–62 in: Hartwig Schultz (Ed.): Clemens Brentano. 1778–1842 on the 150th anniversary of his death. 341 pages. Peter Lang, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-906750-94-9
  • Hartwig Schultz : Clemens Brentano. With 20 illustrations. 224 pages. Reclam Stuttgart 1999. Series of literature studies. Universal Library No. 17614, ISBN 3-15-017614-X

Quoted text edition

  • Old first fragment of the manuscript from the Chronica of the traveling student. Pp. 85–177, From the Chronicka of a traveling schoolboy. P. 179–225 in: Gerhard Kluge (Ed.): Stories in Jürgen Behrens (Ed.), Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.), Wolfgang Frühwald (Ed.), Christoph Perels (Ed.), Hartwig Schultz (Ed.) : Clemens Brentano. All works and letters. Volume 19. Prose IV. 868 pages. Linen. With 16 full-page black-and-white illustrations. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-17-009440-8

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Individual evidence

“Source” means the quoted text edition.

  1. ↑ Source, p. 603, 3. Zvo
  2. ↑ Feilchenfeldt, p. 107, entry January 1, 1818
  3. ↑ Vordtriede, pp. 145–146
  4. ↑ Source, p. 521, 12. Zvo
  5. ^ Source, p. 518, 10th Zvu and p. 519, 6th Zvu
  6. ↑ Source, pp. 502–622
  7. ↑ Huber, quoted in Schultz, p. 73, 7th Zvu
  8. ↑ Kluge in the explanations in the source, p. 517, 17. Zvo
  9. ↑ Source, p. 103, 12. Zvu
  10. ↑ In the story, the poem is admittedly not given a title. The masterpiece is also called “The Spinner Night Song” (around 1802), Schulz (1983), p. 639, 4th Zvu
  11. ↑ [1]
  12. ↑ [2]
  13. ↑ [3]
  14. ^ Vordtriede, p. 145, second letter passage
  15. ↑ Feilchenfeldt, p. 48, entry December 1805: Arnim encouraged his friend to continue working on the story.
  16. ↑ quoted in Feilchenfeldt, p. 43, entry September 8, 1804 and p. 184, fourth entry: Karl Philipp Kayser, Aus gärender Zeit. Diary sheets of the Heidelberg professor Karl Philipp Kayser from the years 1793 to 1827 with 10 illustrations after contemporary pictures by Friedrich Rottmann . Published by Franz Schneider. Karlsruhe 1923
  17. ↑ Schulz, p. 470, middle
  18. ↑ Riley, p. 103, 11. Zvu
  19. ↑ Kluge in the explanations in the source, p. 517, 4. Zvo
  20. ↑ Schultz, pp. 85-86
  21. ↑ see also Kluge in the explanations in the source, p. 517, 11. Zvo
  22. ↑ Pfeiffer-Belli, p. 94 below - p. 95 above
  23. ↑ Riley, p. 103
  24. ^ Riley, p. 104 below
  25. ↑ Schulz (1989), p. 471, middle
  26. ↑ Kluge in the explanations in the source, p. 517, 18. Zvo
  27. ↑ Kluge, p. 55, 3. Zvo
  28. ↑ Schulz (1983), p. 639, 8. Zvu - p. 640, 10. Zvo
  29. ↑ Kluge, p. 57, 4th Zvu
  30. ^ Riley, p. 105, last entry