Farmers, bigwigs and bombs (novel)
Farmers, Bonzen and Bombs is the title of a novel by Hans Fallada that was published by Rowohlt Verlag in 1931 . In the text Fallada deals with the historical events surrounding the Schleswig-Holstein rural people's movement and its boycott of the city of Neumünster , which he himself reported on in 1929 as an auxiliary journalist for a local newspaper, but relocates the plot to a fictional Pomeranian city of Altholm. The book was directed by Egon Monk filmed and 1973 as a five-part television movie ( ARD sent).
action
Fallada first describes the protest actions of the peasantry , from resistance to forced seizures to demonstrations and bomb attacks. At a demonstration in Altholm (historically: Neumünster) there is a fight for the flag of the rural people's movement , whereby the flag bearer is seriously injured. As a result, the peasantry boycotted the town of Altholm for almost a year, which led to considerable economic and political problems. In this situation two powerful and cunning opponents meet in Altholm, the German national editor Stuff and the social democratic mayor Gareis. Between them acts the powerless and disoriented and only interested in his short-term advantage, the advertiser and auxiliary editor Tredup, who is crushed in the small-town network of relationships and dies.
On the cover of the first edition you can see a powerful male figure designed by Olaf Gulbransson , who shows Mayor Gareis or editor Stuff or farmers' leader Reimers (historically: Claus Heim ).
The novel also describes how Ehrhardt people and Stahlhelm activists endeavor to reinterpret the actions of the rural people movement into their model of a conservative revolution .
expenditure
- Farmers, bigwigs and bombs. Novel . Rowohlt, Berlin 1931. Simultaneous edition by Vier-Falken-Verlag, Berlin 1931.
- Second edition Vier Falken, Berlin 1939. First edition after 1945, Aufbau, Berlin-Ost 1964 and Rowohlt, Reinbek 1964.
- 142nd to 144th thousand Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, ISBN 978-3-499-10651-4 .
- New edition February 2018, with an afterword by Michael Töteberg . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-27377-3 .
Movie
- Farmers, Bigwigs and Bombs (film) , 1973 by Egon Monk .
literature
- Rolf Schneider: Klatsch, Kabale und Korruption , about Hans Fallada's farmers, bigwigs and bombs in Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.) Novels from yesterday - read today , Vol. II 1918 - 1933, pp. 277–284, S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt a. M. 1989, ISBN 3-10-062911-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ the Rolf Schneider as "Fallada's alter ego", referred see: gossip, intrigue and corruption . Rolf Schneider on Hans Fallada: Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben (1931) , in: Marcel Reich-Ranicki (Ed.), Novels from yesterday read today 1918-1933 , Frankfurt am Main 1996, pp. 277–284, here p. 280 .
- ↑ Photo of the envelope
