The event in the Schrun

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Peter Rosegger around 1905

The event in the Schrun is a story by the Austrian writer Peter Rosegger , published in 1887 in the anthology Höhenfeuer. New stories from the Alps appeared at Hartleben in Vienna .

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The 20-year-old Gottfried Mändeg, the only child of the teacher's widow Mändeg, graduated from the Aching grammar school in Upper Franconia with flying colors and is allowed to go on a vacation trip to the Alps with financial support from the teaching staff. Gottfried can not be worried about his mother from the risky climbing tour stop and travels to Tirol in the Schrun. On the Schrunstein, he and his local mountain guide , the Knappen-Wolf, crash . Both fall deep and are instantly dead. Rosegger tells less of Gottfried's story than an episode from the life of his mother. First of all, Jakob Höfinger, pastor in the village of Schrun in Tyrol, dispatched her to arrive as soon as possible because Gottfried Mändeg from Aching in Upper Franconia was injured.

Well, that's not even half the story. But the telegram enables Rosegger to describe a process inside Mother Mändeg. During the train journey into the narrow valley of the Schrun and during her stay there, she gradually understood the whole truth.

Arriving in the village of Schrun, the mother realizes that the son is not yet underground, but his coffin has already been locked. Mother Mändeg absolutely wants to see Gottfried again. The doctor and pastor want to spare the woman. Vain. "Leave me alone," she replies. "I am strong. A mother is stronger than you think ”. The widow endures the difficult test. And even more. The mountain guide Knappen-Wolf leaves behind a son - little Ludel. As is sometimes the case in life - a mother is not there. Mother Mändeg adopts Ludel; accepts the little one in place of his son.

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  • The event in the Schrun . In: Höhenfeuer. New stories from the Alps . A. Hartleben's Verlag, Vienna 1887, p. 260-286 ( archive.org ).
  • Peter Rosegger: The event in the Schrun - 's Guderl - The emergency baptism (= Wiesbadener Volksbuch , No. 60). Publishers of the Volksbildungsverein, Wiesbaden 1905
  • The event in the Schrun . In: Peter Rosegger: The book of novels. Second volume, L. Staackmann. Leipzig 1915, pp. 321-345.
  • The event in the Schrun In: Peter Rosegger: Der Herrensepp and other stories . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1925
  • The event in the Schrun , pp. 267–285 in Karl-Maria Guth (ed.): Peter Rosegger: Onkel Sonnenschein and other stories . Contumax-Hofenberg, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-7437-2670-3

Web links

  • Peter Rosegger: The event in the Schrun online