The shelter

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The shelter is a story by Anna Seghers , which was written in France towards the end of 1940 and appeared in the November issue of the exile newspaper “Free Germany” in Mexico in 1941 . A woman who shows moral courage outsmarts her spouse in difficult times.

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September 1940 in Paris occupied by the Wehrmacht : The housewife Luise Meunier, wife of a lathe operator and mother of several sons, learns from her school friend Annette Villard, a hotel employee, that a 12-year-old German boy whose parents had distributed leaflets in Germany about the Gestapo is to be returned to Germany. The boy's father, who escaped from a German concentration camp , was arrested. The mother is dead. Luise helps. She knows her husband. So she invents that her cousin Alice wants to visit her wounded husband in the hospital. Therefore Luise wanted to take the boy Alice to her for a few days. At the same time, Luise introduces her own husband to the story of the arrested German from Annette's hotel and his boy. The lathe operator, who - returned home from the Maginot Line - was demobilized, accepts the German occupiers in his city as invincible and grumpily comes to terms with the new eater from distant relatives. When the few days have passed, Luise writes a letter to herself. When the disgruntled turner learns from those scrawled lines that the relative in the hospital was seriously ill and Alice's arrival was indefinitely distant, his mood worsened. He rumbles, he would much rather take in the son of that arrested German than this child of unloved relative. Luise replies: "You have already recorded it."

Self-testimony

“I heard this story being told in my hotel in the XVI. Arrondissement of that Annette who had taken her service there. "

reception

Neugebauer suspects that Anna Seghers also had the help of decent French for Bruno Frei's children in mind.

Brandes quotes Beicken . With Luise "instinct, mental readiness and political awareness of action found a unity".

The brief, sparse, factual introduction to the novel and the pointed end (see also the quote at the end of the subsection “Content” in this article) reminds Neugebauer of Anna Seghers' role model, Kleist .

filming

On November 15, 1981, GDR television broadcast a 52-minute film by Ursula Schmenger and Hannes Walsinger . Anja Braun , Andre Heintke and Michaela Hotz played leading roles. Anna Seghers had worked on the script.

literature

Text output

expenditure
  • The shelter. In: Anna Seghers: Stories 1926–1944. (= Collected Works in Individual Editions. Volume IX). 2nd Edition. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 810894505 , pp. 277-284. (Output used)
  • The shelter. 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. 103-111.
  • The shelter. In: Anna Seghers: The most beautiful stories. Selected by Christina Salmen. With an afterword by Gunnar Decker . 1st edition. Structure of the publishing group, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-351-03495-5 , pp. 164–172.

Secondary literature

  • Heinz Neugebauer: Anna Seghers. Life and work. (= Contemporary writers. Volume 4). People and knowledge, Berlin 1980, DNB 202704238 .
  • Ute Brandes: Anna Seghers . (= Heads of the 20th century. Volume 117). Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-7678-0803-X .
  • Sonja Hilzinger: Anna Seghers. (= Study of literature. RUB 17623). Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-017623-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. Hilzinger, p. 116, 14. Zvu and p. 117, 4. Zvo
  2. Free Germany
  3. Edition used, p. 366, entry “Das Obdach” .
  4. Edition used, p. 284, 6th Zvu
  5. Edition used, p. 284, 4th Zvu
  6. Neugebauer, p. 106, 13. Zvo, see also Hilzinger, p. 117, 10. Zvu
  7. Brandes, p. 48, 4. Zvo
  8. Neugebauer, p. 106, 6th Zvu
  9. ^ The shelter in the German IMDb