Badisches saga book

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Title page of the first edition of the Badischer Sagenbuch from 1846

The Badischer Sagenbuch is a collection of folk tales from the area of ​​the former Grand Duchy of Baden , compiled by August Schnezler and first published in 1846. In addition to new editions in the form of reprints , there was an attempt in 1898/99 to create an expanded and illustrated book of legends from Baden, which was only realized for the southern parts of the country.

precursor

In his foreword, Schnezler lists the diverse works that provided inspiration and material for his collection of legends. The earliest known collection of Baden folk sagas is that of Heinrich Medicus , a handwritten collection of 30 sagas, most of which come from Baden and were written down from 1800 to 1807. Aloys Schreiber published in 1806/1807 in the Badische Wochenschrift he edited for instruction and entertainment for all classes and individual folk tales and thus gave a suggestion. Aloys Schreiber then published sagas from the areas of the Rhine and the Black Forest in 1819 . In 1845 Eduard Brauer published a collection of legends ballads under the title Legends and Stories of the City of Baden in the Grand Duchy and its near and distant surroundings in a poetic guise . According to Schnezler, August Stöber's collection of sagas in Alsace in particular moved him to create such a collection for the areas on the right bank of the Rhine.

The collection

Under the title "Badisches Sagen-Buch - A collection of the most beautiful sagas, stories, fairy tales and legends of the Baden region from written documents, the mouths of the people and the poets", two volumes were published in 1846 by the Karlsruhe publisher Creuzbauer and Hasper .

The first volume has the subtitle First Section: From Lake Constance to Ortenau and was dedicated to "His Royal Highness the Grand Duke Leopold I of Baden, the noble friend and curator of patriotic history and legends." The second volume bears the subtitle: Second Department: From the Ortenau to the Mainthal.

Even within the volumes, the legends are structured according to landscapes. In the first volume these are: Bodensee , Linzgau , Hegau , Rheintal, Klettgau , Albgau , Waldstädte and the surrounding area, Breisgau , legends from the Baar , Kinzigthal and Seitenthäler. 245 sagas, stories, fairy tales and legends on 488 pages, with 110 contributions clearly focusing on the Breisgau. The contributions selected by Schnezler originate from a. from Mone's Anzeiger and from Heinrich Schreiber , Aloys Schreiber, Joseph Bader , Bernhard Baader , Gustav Schwab and a large number of other authors and collectors.

The second volume deals with: Ortenau , Hanauer Ländchen , Renchthal and Seitenthäler, Acherthal and Seitenthäler, Mummelsee and neighboring lakes, Bühl and the surrounding area, legends of Windeck Castle , Oosgau - city of Baden and surrounding areas, Murgthal , Albthal , Karlsruhe and the surrounding area , Durlacher legends, Pforzheim and the surrounding area, Kraichgau and Elsenzgau , Mannheim and the next surrounding area, Pfälzer Bergstrasse , Heidelberg and the surrounding area, Neckarthal and Odenwald , Odenwäldisches building land , Taubergrund and Mainthal , legends from the area near Wertheim - 324 articles on 654 pages. Schnezler has taken a large number of the contributions from Mone's Anzeiger, from Aloys Schreiber and Eduard Brauer, but he and a large number of other authors and collectors have also contributed to this volume.

expenditure

1846

The collection of legends “Badisches Sagen-Buch” was first published in 1846 by the Karlsruhe publisher Creuzbauer und Hasper. This is also the output that was used for Wikisource.

For the reprint published in 1978 by the Central Antiquariat of the GDR , however, a copy from the Rostock University Library was used, which, according to the Central Antiquariat, was also printed in 1846, but belongs to a different edition of the W. Creuzbauer Verlag (without partner Hasper) and that on the Title page does not have a year. A review in the literary newspaper refers to an edition that was published by Engelmann in Leipzig in 1846 . The German National Library does not keep these editions in its file.

1898/99

Cover of “Badisches Sagen-Buch” - “Legends of Lake Constance, the Upper Rhine Valley and the Forest Cities”. Freiburg 1898

In 1898, Joseph Waibel and Hermann Flamm published the first volume of a planned, illustrated new edition of the collection of legends "Badisches Sagen-Buch" by August Schnezler under the title "Legends of Lake Constance, the Upper Rhine Valley and the Waldstädte" in the publishing house of J. Waibel's Buchhandlung . Josef Bader wrote the introduction to this volume, which is why he is often referred to as the author of the volume. The volume also has an index of places. A detailed subject index was planned after the publication of four local saga circles. In 1899 another part of the planned project followed under the title sagas of Freiburg and the Breisgau . This volume contains 291 legends, fairy tales and stories on 350 pages. The partly very short contributions are from the section Breisgau of Schnezler's Badischer Sagenbuch from 1846, the Bernhard Baaders collection from 1859 and from Heinrich Schreiber's The Folk Tales of the City of Freiburg im Breisgau from 1867. The volume is illustrated, with many drawings from the Breisgau association “Schau- ins-Land ” from its magazine“ Schau-ins-Land ”. This volume also has an index of places and is probably the most extensive collection of legends in Breisgau.

1976-1979

In 1976 and 1978/79 the Central Antiquariat of the GDR published various editions of the saga collection "Badisches Sagen-Buch" by August Schnezler as a photomechanical reprint of the original 1846 edition based on the copy in the Rostock University Library.

1987-1990

Badisches Sagen-Buch: a collection of the most beautiful sagas, stories, fairy tales and legends of the Baden region: from written documents, the mouths of the people and the poets, Stuttgart: Belser, 1987–1990. Microfiche edition: Wildberg: Belser Wiss. Service, 1989–1990. (Edition Corvey)

2016

In 2016 the collection of legends “Badisches Sagen-Buch” was reissued as a reprint of the 1898 edition by Hansebooks GmbH.

criticism

A review appeared in the Blätter für literary entertainment in 1847 in which Schnezler was accused of having “made it extremely difficult” to get an overview of the material by mixing prose and poetry. Two thirds of the contributions are more or less well-known poems. Too many of the prose contributions are also "insignificant and disinterested". In his foreword to the first volume, Schnezler had justified his approach "to avoid the monotonous by changing the shape and style, in verse and prose, and by combining numerous authors' names ..."

literature

  • On the literature of fairy tales, sagas and folk songs. No. 15. In: Blätter für literary entertainment , year 1847, volume 2, No. 286 of October 13, 1847, pp. 1142–1143 in the Internet Archive - Badisches Sagenbuch (review)

Web links

Commons : Badisches Sagenbuch - title pages  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Badisches Sagenbuch  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Badisches Sagen-Buch  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Sagen # Baden  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. Aloys Schreiber: Legends from the areas of the Rhine and the Black Forest. , 1819 Google Book
  2. Eduard Brauer: Legends and stories of the city of Baden in the Grand Duchy and its near and distant surroundings in poetic guise . G. Braun. Karlsruhe 1845 Google digitization
  3. August Stöber: Upper Rhine legend book. Schuler, Strasbourg 1842 Digitized by Google
  4. ^ Entry Kunst-Verlag W. Creuzbauer on stadtlexikon.karlsruhe.de; accessed on October 28, 2019
  5. ↑ In 1846 Wilhelm Hasper was Wilhelm Creuzbauer's partner; by a read error, the publisher is erroneously often Creuzbauer and Kasper called
  6. Here is a short section on the Upper Rhine , with overlaps with the Klettgau, Albgau and the forest cities.
  7. Schreiber published his own collection of sagas in 1867, the folk tales of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau and its surroundings , Freiburg im Breisgau 1867 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library . It contains a number of articles by him and other authors that have already been printed in Schnezler's collection, with some of the titles slightly different.
  8. Bernhard Baader published his collection of sagas in 1851 and complained in the foreword that the sagas he published in Mone's Anzeiger were reprinted by Schnezler without consultation. See Bernhard Baader: Folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas. Karlsruhe 1851, p. III in the Internet Archive ; Another volume with 155 articles followed in 1859 under the title Newly collected folk tales from the state of Baden and the neighboring areas: At the same time as an addendum to the author's work: Folk tales from the state of Baden. in the Internet Archive
  9. see history of the successor company Zentralantiquariat Leipzig GmbH
  10. in the Internet Archive
  11. see “Badisches Sagen-Buch.” “Legends of Lake Constance, the upper Rhine valley and the forest cities”. P. 336 in the Internet Archive
  12. ^ Joseph Waibel, Hermann Flamm (editor): Sagen Freiburgs und des Breisgau , J. Waibel-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1899 in the Internet Archive
  13. ^ An edition for the Fourier Verlag GmbH, Wiesbaden, ISBN 3-921 695-14-7
  14. ^ Entry at the German National Library; accessed on October 30, 2019
  15. ^ Entry Joseph Waibel / Hermann Flamm / August Schnezler / Heinrich Schreiber: Badisches Sagenbuch on the homepage of the Hansebooks GmbH; accessed on October 30, 2019
  16. ZDB -ID 2724323-0
  17. On the literature of fairy tales, sagas and folk songs. No. 15. In: Blätter für literary entertainment , year 1847, volume 2, No. 286 of October 13, 1847, pp. 1142–1143 in the Internet Archive - Badisches Sagenbuch (review)