Brother Saver and Brother Vertuer

Brother savers and brother Vertuer is a farce . It is in Ludwig Bechstein's German Book of Fairy Tales at number 68 (1845 No. 75).

content

Two brothers, a shoemaker and a tailor, wander together. The shoemaker likes to buy tobacco and schnapps, the tailor then saves the same amount for himself every time. When they are arguing again about saving and wasting, the tailor puts the money he has saved over a year on the railing of the bridge. A gust of wind sweeps it down. The shoemaker asks: “Well, Brother Sparer, how much do you have now?” - “As much as Duhuhuhuhu! As much as Duhuhuhuhu! ”Howls the tailor.

origin

Bechstein notes “Oral”, the source is unclear. The text begins like, for example, Bechstein's tailor Hänschen and the knowing animals or Grimm's Der Lazy and the Hard-Working , without suggesting the punch line. The joke that the wind is almost blowing the skinny tailor away is like in The Giant and the Tailor .

literature

• Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , pp. 318-320, 392.

Web links

• Brother Saver and Brother Vertuer in the Gutenberg-DE project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jörg Uther (Ed.): Ludwig Bechstein. Storybook. After the edition of 1857, text-critically revised and indexed. Diederichs, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-424-01372-2 , p. 392.