Peasants from Hruschovo

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Peasants of Hruschowo is a story by Anna Seghers that was written around 1929 and appeared in the 1930 collection “ On the way to the American embassy ” in Berlin. Immediately after the war , the farmers from Hruschowo successfully fought for their forest in the then Czechoslovakian Carpathians .

content

After the failed Rákóczi uprising at the beginning of the 18th century, the Habsburgs took away the forest from the farmers from Hruschowo. The ownership structure remained until the fall of the Danube Monarchy .

When the farmer Voychuk returns to his village from the war, a child is just being born to him. The farmers in Hruschowo and the surrounding area are listening. A tree is felled in the forest. Voychuk needs a trunk for the cradle. Other farmers follow Voychuk's courageous example and go into the forest with ax. At the beginning of 1919, the villagers elect Voychuk as their judge. When the authorities want to be compensated for the felled wood, one of their representatives is beaten up by the Hruschowoern. The farmers keep cutting trees. They take their weapons with them into the forest. The state is besieging the village. The dispute claims human lives. The example of the courageous farmers sets an example. In Uzhhorod and Akna Slatina , workers assemble and move to the Carpathians. The village judge is meanwhile guarded by soldiers. The government in Prague gives in. She gives the Hruschowoern their forest, which has been missing two hundred years.

Testimonials

  • "I heard this story told by the secretary of the party in the Carpathian Russia District."
  • "I describe the struggle of farmers for a forest and try to include people and the landscape organically in the revolutionary action by simply describing real processes."

shape

The legendary tone matches the homely story from the forest. But appearance is deceptive. The class struggle rages in the background : “ There was shooting behind the silence.” In chronological terms, this is the author's first story to fall out of the ordinary. Anna Seghers has given up the restraint she has been accustomed to by the reader when, for example, she writes: "In Russia there is a Lenin , the earth is taken away from the masters, forest and field are given to the peasants."

reception

Schrade finds the cramped propaganda and the "political rhetoric" not only "embarrassing", but he also takes the distance from the material - geographically speaking - as a cause of what he believes to be an inappropriate tone. The amalgamation of the celebrated modern forest farmers' war with the October Revolution and its immediate consequences is even too constructed.

The text, written from a Marxist position, stands out from the work of Anna Seghers as an exception: an uprising succeeds in this “homage to the October Revolution”. Anna Seghers receives little praise from Batt. The revolutionary Hull joins the “ fishermen of St. Barbara ”, while the leader Voytschuk is a local farmer.

literature

Text output

expenditure
  • Peasants from Hruschovo. In: Anna Seghers: Stories 1926–1944. (= Collected Works in Individual Editions. Volume IX). 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 810894505 , pp. 142-157. (Output used)
  • Peasants from Hruschovo. In: Anna Seghers: Post to the Promised Land. Stories. Selection of Ursula Emmerich. Illustrations Günther Lück. 1st edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-351-01653-0 , pp. 67-82.

Secondary literature

  • Heinz Neugebauer: Anna Seghers. Life and work. (= Contemporary writers). Edited by Kurt Böttcher. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1980, OCLC 916648276 .
  • Kurt Batt : Anna Seghers. Trial over development and works. (= Röderberg-Taschenbuch . Volume 15). Röderberg, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-87682-470-2 .
  • Ute Brandes: Anna Seghers . (= Heads of the 20th century. Volume 117). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7678-0803-X .
  • Andreas Schrade: Anna Seghers (= Metzler Collection. Volume 275). Metzler, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-476-10275-0 .
  • Sonja Hilzinger: Anna Seghers. (= Study of literature; = RUB 17623). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-017623-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edition used, p. 364, entry "Peasants of Hruschowo" .
  2. ↑ Edition used, p. 156, 4th Zvu
  3. ↑ Anna Seghers, quoted in Neugebauer, p. 32, 20. Zvo
  4. ↑ Brandes, p. 37, 5. Zvo
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 156, 6. Zvo
  6. ↑ Edition used, p. 146, 3rd Zvu
  7. ^ Schrade, p. 21.
  8. ^ Schrade, p. 37, 14. Zvo
  9. ↑ Hilzinger, p. 97, 7. Zvo
  10. ↑ Batt, p. 54, 2nd Zvu
  11. ^ Batt, p. 54, 10. Zvo