Brother funny
Brother Lustig is a fairy tale ( ATU 785, 330). It is in the children's and house tales of the Brothers Grimm from the 2nd edition from 1819 at position 81 (KHM 81).
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After the war, the soldier Brother Lustig received a loaf of bread and four cruisers to abdicate. On the way he meets St. Peter three times as a beggar, to whom he gives a quarter of the bread and a cruiser each time. For the fourth cruiser, he has a beer with his bread in the inn. When he meets Peter again and can no longer give, he goes with him to heal a sick man. Peter doesn't want a wage, Brother Lustig still accepts a lamb. When it becomes too difficult for him, he wants to cook it. But he shouldn't start eating until Peter is back. When it doesn't come, he eats the lamb heart and then claims it doesn't have one.
When they have to wade through water on the way, Peter raises the water so that Brother Lustig would confess that he ate the heart, but he does not confess. Peter brings a deceased king's daughter to life. Then he divides the gold that Brother Lustig received for it into three parts: one for the two of them and one for whoever ate the lamb heart. When Brother Lustig paints two parts on it and is now convicted of the lie, Peter leaves him.
Brother Lustig is wasting the money. With the next dead king's daughter he wants to imitate what he saw with Peter, but put the bones together incorrectly. Peter comes and helps him. After the soldier has received the satchel full of gold again, contrary to Peter's prohibition, Peter leaves him for good. Before doing this, he gives his satchel the ability to wish anything into it. Brother Lustig applies this to two roasted geese, one of which he gives away to two craft boys who are then mistaken for the thieves.
He spent the night in a castle, where nine devils attacked him, whom he killed by placing them in his satchel and having the blacksmiths hit them. Only one escapes to hell. He remembers when Brother Lustig stood in front of the gates of hell at the end of his life and did not let him in. At the gate of heaven Peter does not want to let him in, but Brother Lustig gives him back his satchel and then wishes himself in.
Comparisons
In the children's and house fairy tales from the 2nd edition of 1819 onwards, Brother Lustig appears instead of The Smith and the Devil as No. 81. There are also some where the soldier deals with the devil: De Spielhansl , The Devil's Sooty Brother , The devil with the three golden hairs , The devil and his grandmother , The griffin , The bearskin , The shoes that were danced , The blue light , The peasant and the devil , The buffalo leather boot ; see. also Marienkind ; to raise the dead u. a. Lk 7.14.
Heinz Rölleke points out that, from the 2nd edition, Wilhelm Grimm entered excessive sayings and peculiar sayings of the people, which I always listen to in the stories. That should also apply to this text. Brother Lustig's practical thinking is characterized by an abundance of literal speeches, his generosity and friendliness towards saints and devils: “Now I am empty”, “There is a catch for us”, “O, you Hans Fool”, “what a fellow he is Sparren has in his head ”,“ it is good that he trots, it's a wonderful saint ”,“ what grief he has in his head, because what he gives with one hand, he takes with the other: is there no sense in it "," you strange owl, I probably don't want to follow you "," have peace, you devil ghosts "," holla, I want to calm down soon! "
Grimm's note
The Brothers Grimm note: Individual parts of this saga are told again as separate fairy tales, and the combination almost always deviates more or less. They got it from Georg Passy , who heard it from an old woman in Vienna . They only took the water sample from a version in Hesse in which Brother Lustig says that a black lamb has no heart.
You mention a poem from the Arnim'schen Master songs (no. 232) of 1550, in which a trooper food begging, while Peter wants to preach. But he heals the mayor , receives thirty guilders and then only shows one cheese. The mercenary secretly eats the liver from the chicken that Peter ordered. He confesses when Peter divides the thirty guilders into three parts.
They quote a version of Swabia and God from the shortened version of Martin Montanus . One goes to a wedding and receives a cruiser, the other heals the dead at a funeral and receives a hundred guilders. The Swabian wants to share. He secretly eats the lamb liver and says it didn't have any. In the next village he wants to heal the dead. Because he does not succeed, he is to be executed. Although God offers to help, He does not confess until God heals the dead and divides the reward in three parts, one for whoever ate the liver.
You also mention Aurbacher's little book for young people, No. 9. pp. 180–186 , Pröhles Kinderm. No. 16 , Meier No. 10. 62 and 78 , in Croatian in Vogel's Grandmother, p. 27 . The saying 'the Swabian must have always eaten the liver ' refers to this in Zeitvertreiber (1668) p. 152 and in Berkenmeyer's Antiquarius (Hamb. 1746) p. 549 . You cite an allusion in Keisersberg 's 'pull the liverwort out of the roast' and from Fischart's flea hunt 35b :
- but I am innocent of
- but I have to eat the liver
- and must be done with the greatest disgrace.
Receptions
Cf. Vom Schwaben, who eaten the liver in Ludwig Bechstein's German fairy tale book and The three wishes in New German fairy tale book .
Siegfried Wagner composed an opera Bruder Lustig in 1904 , Reiner Bredemeyer composed a radio play music in 1983 (director: Norbert Speer).
Karen Duve ironically retells the fairy tale in her 2012 book Grrrimm .
Norbert Pötzl writes in his biography that Erich Honecker , who led a relaxed way of life , was a right brother Lustig compared to the strict moral concepts of older communists .
literature
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 406-416. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Last hand edition with the original notes by the Brothers Grimm. With an appendix of all fairy tales and certificates of origin, not published in all editions, published by Heinz Rölleke. Volume 3: Original Notes, Guarantees of Origin, Afterword. Pp. 141-143, pp. 477-478. Revised and bibliographically supplemented edition, Stuttgart 1994. (Reclam-Verlag; ISBN 3-15-003193-1 )
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimm, brothers. Children's and Household Tales. Complete edition. With 184 illustrations by contemporary artists and an afterword by Heinz Rölleke. Pp. 862-863. Düsseldorf and Zurich, 19th edition 1999. (Artemis & Winkler Verlag; Patmos Verlag; ISBN 3-538-06943-3 )
- ↑ http://www.siegfried-wagner.org/html/bruder.html
- ↑ Peter Pragal: The rise and fall of an unrepentant. A hundred years ago, the former GDR state and party leader Erich Honecker was born. In: Berliner Zeitung. 68th year, No. 199, 25./26. August 2012. p. 8.